GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

RUSSIAN ANTI-DRINK DRIVE

tUnited Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph Copy right.)

RIGA, August 23.

ini connection with an anti-drink campaign in Leningrad, the authorities have arrested fifty-three tavern keepers. Inspectors of schools reveal that sevent.v-fom- per cent of the children have been addicted to drink for three years, having largely been encouraged by their parents. -Misnudov, a member of the League of Communist Youth,' ran amok while intoxicated in Leningrad. He shot and killed his young wife, and followed the ambulance to the hospital and killed a doctor. Then he rushed into the streets, firing wild fusilades until he was mortally wounded by a militiaman.

NOT IN UNISON. LONDON, August 21. At the Labour Conference, London, a cleavage was apparent between British and Irish and Dominions delegates on almost every subject. It was clear a proletarian viewpoint was not predominant.

A DELEGATE’S COMPLAINT. LONDON, August 24. The Secretary of the I rnde Union Congress (Mr Andrews) who was a Government delegate at Geneva Labour Congress, complains that after passing the Customs at Harwich, two detectvies searched his papers. Andrews is avowedly Communistic and admitted Jie associated during his visit to Europe with the leaders of the Amsterdam International. STEAMER AFIRE. • HONG KONG, Aug. 24. The British passenger steamer Suitai arrived from Macao afire. Half an hour after hundreds of passengers had disembarked, gasolene cargo caused the flames to spread with alarming rapidity soon enveloping the whole ship, which was reduced to a burntout hulk. There were thrilling escapes, the officers and crew jumping on to the wharf, which was also badly afire. There were no serious casualties.

FIJI METHODIST CHURCH. SUVA, Aug. 24. A Methodist .Mission deputation returns from Fiji, Sydney, this evening by the Moeraki. As the result of conferences, the Rev. MacDonald (Chairman at Fiji) has withdrawn his resignation, and remains in, office.

POISONING TRAGEDY. MOTHER AND FOUR CHILDREN. CAPETOWN, Aug. 24. A Dutch family met a tragic fate while hunting in Swaziland. ihey * used an old sheep dip drum to fetch water, arid all were poisoned with arsenic. The mother and four children died.

NAME IN SHIPPING LIST. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). LONDON, Aug. 25. A police enquiry at Southampton found Franklin Hutchison’s name in the passenger list of the Canadian Pacific liner, Empress of Scotland, which sailed from Cherbourg for Quebec on August 4th.