GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

GREAT POPULAR DEMONSTRATION. Australian Press Assn.—United Service LONDON, September 14. The Madrid correspondent of “ Tbo Times " states: The greatest pageant over seen in the Capitol, amply proving that Director Do Rivera Ims immense popular ba (king has passed off without incident. A procession rOprcsenting the Provinces took six hours ' to pass General Do Rivera at the saluting base. Africa led tbo column with groups of Moors. Tbo Jews of Albaceto sent a carriage of beautiful girls bearing guts for General Dr Rivera. Bndjoz sont herdsmen of Burgos, its famous giants. Cacores sent ft company of soldiers of the Sixteenth Century Legion. Each tableau was accompanied by bands. Dancers performed before the Presidential balcony.

SPANISH PLOT. LONDON, September 14. Advices from Gibraltar state that many Sapnish Freemasons from frontier towns are taking refuge at the Gibraltar Rock, so as to escape arrest •for-protesting against measures that are being taken against Freemasons throughout Spain in connection with the plot. • It was reported to the Spanish Minister of the Interior on Monday night that a list was supplied to the police, who were detailed to scour Madrid in ten cabs and arrest those named. Tbo men so arrested include Lerroux. leader of the Liberal-Republican Party. Similar orders were despatched to the Provincial Governors, who are. arresting Royal Freemasons and many journalists with Republican sympathies.

ROYALTY AT SCOTS GATHERING. LONDON, September 14. Thirty thousand Highlanders acclaimed the King at a vast natural nmpithcatro at the opening of the Braemar Games. The King wore a Balmoral bonnet, kilt, and ! a hunting Stunvt-tartan plaid thrown over bis shoulder. The Queen, the Duke and Duchess of York, also Mr Rudyard Kipling, who is a guest of the King, were present. Balmoral Highlanders, the King’s men, their Lochaber axes gleaming in the sun as they lay aslant their broad shoulders, led the parade, sounding the pibroch of “Donald Dhu” on the bagpipes, that ancient rousing song of the hill, which in old summoned the clansmen to council.

! GOVERNMENT OF EGYPT. fßeceived this day at 9 a.m.) CAIRO, September 15. Mahomoud Pasha visited Tanta, the Wafdist hotbed, where he addressed a large assembly- of notabilities. He assured them that a constitutional government would be restored. He declared the government’s aim was to rid the nation of the fearful nightmare, which made the parliamentary machine a .danger to public morality and, was an instrument of anarchy, instead of safeguarding the principles of the Government. They will proceed during the winter in heightening the Assouan dam construction at Gwbelelaulia dam, whereby Egypt will secure an extra five million cubic metres of Nile water, which irrigates 700,000 acres.