GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 17 December 1928, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

IN ANTARCTICA. SIR ||. WILKIN'S. (Suited Press Assoc in lion—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, Dec. lii. I'rum Deception Lshmd, Sir 11. Wilkins writes—Snow, .sleet and rain has been unlitvourable 'lor aerial expedition. Jhe coding is about six hundred leet whoteas the plateau of Graham island which we must cross is about two thousand leet, and studded with nte.uniains reaching to six thousand feet. \\ e limy get oil to-morrow u the clouds break. PE PHI.EYED. LONDON. Dec. Id. Sam live, cabled on Yi'li Not ember, as reprieved to penal servitude for life. CO.W.M ILYiO|/'E DISAPPOINTING. LONDON. Dee. 16. Ibe promised conmuiiiK|Ue regarding Lugano conversations Iron) Sir A. < Im.iiiborlaiu. Al. JJriaml and Herr Sti'esenianu is eompleteJy colourless, merely expressing ;i determination to do all possible to arrive as soon as ran at a final settlement of the diilieulties arising from the war. I lie I oiled Press eorrespondeiit :it Lugano says Germany inis secured an a.ssiiranee that (negotiations tor the evacuation ol the Rhineland will he resumed in January, when reparation exports will begin their task. The ‘'Observer's'' correspondent believes that the' question of evacuation is iii cold storage until the .reparations experts report.