NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1928, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL

PLAN TO SOLVE PARIS 'TRAFFIC PROBLEM. PARIS, August 9. The special committee cf the Paris City Council which has reported on tile traffic congestion problem believes that the surfaco roads c-f the, city have reached the limit of traffic they can carry. T]!iey cannot be widened (says the report) except at a tremendous outlay < f cr.nital and at enormous inconvenience and injury to trade, and the idea of building overhead roads is dismissed ns inartistic and dangerous to public health.

The committee recommends the immediate study of a series of underground roadways which will relieve I,'y traffic congestion on the surface, and a-s a first step it proposes building ns rapidly n.s pCissiH’o underground moving platforms which will carry goods of all descriptions between the different railway stations. It is believed that tlie carriage, of these goods underground, instead of b.v motor-lor-ries and other vehicles on the surface will reduce the traffic congestion by 2d per cent.

Later it is proposed to build .underground highways connected with the surface at convenient points selected to fit in with the genend plan of traffic movements.

CONTES'!' FOR A CORPSE. MAN WHO DIED IN TWO COUNTRIES. POSEN, (Poland), Aug. 9. A polish merchant, Pinlcus Gcwel, was trying to slip across the frontier from Russia into Poland when he was shot by Soviet Customs men. He fell dead across the frontier line, with the upper half of his body, in Polish territory and the lower half in Russia. Gewel’s widow claimed the body, declaring that her husband had hidden £3OO in banknotes in his boots. The Sovct Commission refused to hand over the body and confiscated the money on the ground the even if the dead man’s head was in Poland his feet were in Russia. NO WAR. FOR WOMEN. SOCIALISTS’ DEM ANIL BRUSSELS, August 9. The. Labour and -Socialists Tutornational Congress at Brussels to-day passed a resolution against the mobilisation of women in war time.

Mr Arthur Henderson, who was received with cheers, gave the presidential address. He said:

This year’s League of Natons Assembly should take the opportunity at tho gathering of the delegates of more than 50 nations to make a solemn declaration pledging them to accept and ratify the Kellogg Pact as soon as the Government of tho United States invites them to do so.

I believe the Assembly will fail in its dutv unless it- fixes the date for the long delayed disarmament conference for the summer of 1929 at latest: It should give a definite instruction to f’>e Council to summon the Preparatory Commission, and should fix a time by Which the Commission shall complete the draft disarmament treaty which it must prepare.

This action it must take at once or face the responsibility of risking a failurt more disastrous than that of tbe Cool id vc Conference a year ago. If it delays -’much longer with this vital .matter it will :’m risking the whole future of the League.