GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) FRENCH COMMUNISTS. PARIS, Aug. 5. The suburb of Ivry, comprising 40,000 inhabitants, when the authorities prohibited a Communist anti-militari.-1 demonstration there, was in a state of siege yesterday. Armed police patrolled the streets from dawn, and then three thousand police and firemen, arriving in motor lorries, occupied strategic posts. The services were suspended in order to search the town for Communists, who hid in the cafes and bars. Thither the gendarmes pursued them. Tho Mayor of Ivry smacked one gendarme’s face. Tiio Mayor was promptly arrested. The apprehension of five hundred Communists followed. , The garrison troops in Paris were detained in their barracks in case of violence, as the situation was regarded as a test of strength as between the police and the Communists. Fifty Red Guards were arrested as they left demonstration that was made in Paris last night. The position later quietened. GREEK BRIGANDAGE. LONDON, Aug. 5. ' The Times Athens correspondent reports that five brigands, taking advantage pf the bridge amidst hairpin bends on the Yannia Road, ambushed a motor-car containing the Progressive Party’s candidates, M. Milonas, M. Helas, and M. Chassiotis (ex-deputies), also M. Melas’s secretary, who were returning from an electioneering tour in the adjacent villages. t The brigands, despite a police post being only two miles away, presented tlieir rifles and took victims to the mountains. They released Chassiotis and the secretary, demanding a ransom of £13,000 for the Remaining two, and warning them there would be no mercy if the authorities were informed. •

Apparently the ransom will be paid before tho brigands are pursued. M. Venizelos expresses disgust at tho outrage, hut lie contends this brigandage, which he promises to extirpate, is a legacy from former lax Governments. INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS. LONDON, Aug. 5. The Brussels correspondent of “The Times” reports:—Three hundred delegates representing twenty nations, attended the International Socialist Congress under the chairmanship of the Rt. Hon Arthur Henderson, the President of the International; Lord Oliver Jowct and Mr Mosley, M.P., were present. v - Mr Henderson urged tho League should turn its convention into a Treaty for the signature of all Governments ready to agree to it, and should give effect to the optional clause; and the International Court of Justice, and should also ratify tho outlawry of war, and hold .a Disarmament Conference in 1929 Mr Yanderwelde (Belgium) urged the evacuation of the Rhineland. Mrs Susan Lawrence, M.P., and other feminists addressed a simultaneous Women’s Socialist Congress. ANGLO-GERMAN INCIDENTS. BERLIN, Aug. .5. The Germans were surprised at the British phyehology when they saw the heroism of their own German sailors presented in a British Falkland Islands batte film. Now they are completely overwhelmed by a letter from the Olympic runner, Lowe, and his companions, written to Dr Peltzer (the German runner) regretting that his illness prevented the German champion from showing his best form at the Olympic Gaines. The effect of the letter is startling.

The “Vossicbo Zeitung” says: We might envy these gentlemen, for doubtless we should never have thought of this beautiful gesture. There is a fundamental difference between English and German sport. In England sport always remains, a game. Here it has become a national affair. JUGOSLAV SPLIT.

VIENNA, Aug. 5. Jugoslavian passions have been further aroused by the assassination of Vlada Ristovicli, the editor of the Belgrade newspaper “Jedinstvo.” This paper is responsible for a bitter campaign that lias been waged against Stephen Raditch, the .Orotian Leader, who is now lying at the point of death as the result of the revolver attack on him and others in Parliament on June 20th. Ristovicli’s murderer was arrested. The contest between the Croats and the Belgrade Government is hanging momentarily oil Raditch’s condition, because liis death would cause an imposing Croatian national demonstration of, which the Government is most nervous. , THIBETIAN AFFAIRS. (Received this day at 9 a.m.) DELHI, Aug. 6. While the Thibetian Government was successful in quelling revolts in Upper Potodist, rebels are still fiercely resisting in lower Potto and talk of appealing lor mediation by the British, the nearest neighbours in whom they have confidence, alternatively to China, 20 days’ journey distant. If Britain is unwilling, China will probably be most willing to interfere. The rebels may be forced on tho India frontier to sue for peace.