GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1928, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

;j CALLED ‘‘PRETTY*’’ CAKPENTIER’S COMPLAINT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, October 20. Georges Carpentier made a surprise appearance at the British Broadcasting Company to-night and said that nothing would make him happier than again to bo a fighter of world renown. One of the most painful memories of lfis life was the way in which he had been twitted because of his so-called grand manner and the fact that lie had been called “pretty.” lie declared lie would maintain to the end of his days that Dempsey was the best and greatest of all champions.

SOCILIASM FAILS. LONDON,.Oct. 22. Haden Guest in an article in the “Daily Telegraph” expresses the opinion that Socialism has failed in Australia. Nationalised sugar mills have • been dehatonalised ih Queensland because, as a prominent leader of 5 ' the Labour Party told Haden Guest, the men would not work properly for a Government concern. After denationalisation the men’s efficiency increased thirty per cent.

The Labour Governments in Australia had given up Socialism, hut a most active revolutionary minority with' a strong influence in the trades unions liad not done so yet, but even here a- great change had occurred during the past year. This was exemplified in Tom. Walsh’s action. There was little doubt that a lot of .Moscow money was finding its way into Australia.. It was Australian labour tliat made migration to Australia so difficult..

AUSTRALIAN APPLES. LONDON, Oct. 22. A trade newspaper recently . published a statement that ninety-five per cent of Australian apples imported into Britain were sold privately. The Press Association is authoritatively informed that the actual percentages of .Australian imports in 1,928 sold at auction at ports of arrival were Liverpool sixty per cent, Hull sixty-fiYe, Glasgow sixty-six, Manchester eighty, London thirty. A large proportion of London’s imports consisted of direct purchases including many for transhipment to the Continent.

TO DRAIN A LAKE. FOR HISTORIC GALLEYS. ROME, October 22, Mussolini set in motion electric pumps to drain the historic Lake Nemi. Tliis will bring to light Caligulg’s galleys. The water is now pouring from the lake. It will take two to three months' to drain the 140 feet necessary, and cause the galleys to emerge, as springs continually are replenishing the water.

GERMANY’S DEBTS. LONDON, October 22. The “Aborning Post’s” Paris correspondent says it is generally conceded that a ratification of France’s debt settlement in America is a necessary preliminary to a financial arrangement, as the proposed flotation of German railway industrial bonds which are valued at eight hundred million sterling would be impossible if the American market was unfriendly. It is believed Parker Gilbert suggested Germany’s liabilities be fixed at between fifteen hundred million and 1,750 million, while the annual annuities, now 125 millidri, should be reduced to One hundred million.

A BIG PROJECT

TUNNEL AT GIBRALTAR

LONDON, October 31

By tube and train to Africa is the alluring prospect brought within the bounds of possibility by schemes connecting Gibraltar with the opposite African shore which, according to a despatch is now being considered by Franco-Spanisli Governments,. if the proposals, fructify, the British authorities will be asked to reconsider the suspended project of a Channel tunnel. The* Spanish Government, particularly is being - prepared by Colonel Dan Pedro Javerioisj for a twenty-mile tunnel tinder the straits, costing one hundred million'sterling. The other lias , been prepared by Colonel Rubio A . Belloc for a longer tunnel from the Bay of Qudqueros towards Tangier.

ELECTRIFIED CRANE

LONDON, October 21

The electrified crane (cabled yesterday) has now been equipped with an alarm bell which the Broadcasting Corporation rings at the commencement of broadcasting, warning workmen to put on rubber gloves. A broadcasting official attributes the crane’s electrification to the absorption of current from the ether, the long cable acting as an aerial. Ho. assures householders in the vicinity that there is no danger to life or to property.

NEWFOUNDLAND ELECTIONS ST. JOHNS, Oct. 20,

Candidates of the Government and Opposition Parties have been nominated for each of the forty ridings to contest th© Newfoundland general elections on October 29. . The United Newfoundland' (Government) Party is headed by Mr F. 0. Alderyce and the Opposition by Sir Richard' Squires.