GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1928, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

CHINESE NEWS

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). SHANGHAI, Dec. 1. A telegram has been received at the Nanking Ministry of Eoreigh Affairs filoin the Chinese Legation at London. It denies the reported reported renewal of the Anglo-Japanes, Alliance, and states the reports are absolutely without foundation. The boycott of the Japanese is stih rampant in parts of China in <o- sequence of the Shantung situation am! Japan’s refusal to evacuate her troops. PUBLISHER DEAD. . LONDON, Dec. 1. Obituary—Sir John Murray, publisher, aged 77. FRENCH DECISION. PARIS, Dec. 1. The French Cabinet lias announced that it is taking steps to prevent Italian refugees from further abusing French hospitality. TIP TO WOMEN. LONDON, Dec. 1. General Sir George MacMunn, at a dinner at the Lyceum Club, advised tho : young women of England to go to 'Australia and Canada il they wanted husbands; ...There were so many potential husbands there, lie said, that English girls were married even before they took up jobs. Ther were hundreds ol enterprising young Australians now looking out for wives. This advice'was valuable, in view of the fact that then were two million surplus women In England. HAGGIS. FRENCH CHEF’S VERDICT. LONDON, Dec. 1. An ex-officer, and most famous of all the French chefs, the inventor .if the “Po'che Melba,” for which lie was re-

r'litlv decorated with the Legion of Honour, qualified to-day lor the Order of the Thistle. Ho visited the cookery exhibition at Olympia, where for the first time he tasted Haggis, and took a glass of whisky. He said: “The Haggis is very, very good. It makes me want two glasses of whiskey, instead of one.”

, PORTO RICO HURRICANE. . SAN JUAN, Nov. 30. A Government official tally shows that Porto Rico’s loss in the September hurricane was seventeen millions sterling. Further ->Y fnn America is necessary before the inhabitants can get going again.

NEW MEXICAN PRESIDENT. MEXICO CITY, Nov. 30. Emilio Portes Gil took the.oath as Provisional President of Mexico to-day. He pledged his administration to a continuance of the policies ol Obregon and Callcs.