GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

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COUNTERFEITERS AT WORK. DELHI, Aug. 21

Forged currency notes to the value of ten thousand sterling were seized at Rangoon at the week-end. Apparently fearing arrest, two Indians abandoned a conveyance containing boxes full of ten rupee notes. The police raided a house where they seized plates and machinery. They arrested three Indians.

Burma at present is being flooded with counterfeit notes.

VENIZELOS ELECTION VICTORY ATHENS, Aug. 20.

M. Venizelos, in a statement, says lie hopes a Bill creating a Senate will be passed this year, and that Parliament will then proceed to the election of a President. The latest returns show the positions of parties as follows: Venizelists 225, Royalists 16, Kafandrists 3, Pa legalists 1, Independent 3. ATHENS, Aug. 20. M. Venizelos, addressing his friends declared that the electoral victory was the most satisfactory event of his long political career. He fully realised his obligations to his party and to the people. The enormous majority would enable his complete programme to bo carried out. , PRAYERS FOB TREATY. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, August 22. Lord Cushendun has written to the A roll bishop of Canterbury expressing profound satisfaction with the latter’s direction that the signature of the treaty he subject to a prayer of thanksgiving in churches throughout the countryside. The treaty will he the most impressive declaration ever made of the determination to preserve peace, and will inspire the nations with a confident hope, such as they never had till now of deliverance from the sickening abomination of war. Such a consummation could never he achieved without divine sanction and guidance Therefore, it is entirely fitting that the memorable event should be associated with public worship in the national church.”

OBITUARY. LONDON, August 21. Obituary.—William Coats, chairman olf J. P. Coats. Aged 02. PRISONER’S RELEASE. REFUSED BY STR W. JOYNSON HICKS. LONDON, Aug. 20. . Sir Win. Jovnson Hicks (Home Minister) is again in the limelight. This time it is in connection with the agitation that ‘McCartney, who was sentenced on January 18th last to ten years’ imprisonment, for espionage, should he allowed to leave Parkhurst Prison to visit his dying mother. Sir W. Jovnson Hicks has refused McCartney permission to do so. He pointed out that the Home Office had no power to release the prisoner for such a purpose. Mr George Lansbury,. the Labour member of the House of Coni.mons, is heading the agitation, and he refuse.* to accept the answer, awl he appeals to Sir W. Jovnson Hicks, not on the score of legality, lint on the score of humanity. Mr Lansbury urges that whatever are the mail’s crimes, he is a human being.

A telegram lias also been sent to King George begging him to order McCartney’s temporary release. The mother of [McCartney, meanwhile. lies in a darkened room at Southhampton Row, continually calling for her favourite son. A Harley .Street specialist states that a visit from the son is the only hope for her, and that nothing else would make the dying woman rally.