GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 27 December 1928, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

NEW YEAR HONORS,

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

LONDON, December 23

The “Daily Express” lobbyist says though New Year honours are postponed they will be issued as soon as his Majesty is well enough to approve the list. If the King continues his present progress the list will he announced early in February. The lobbyist believes Sir Austen Chamberlain and lion. W. C. Bridgeman will figure in dissolution honours. Mr Bridgeman at first declined a peerage, hut there is reason to believe he has changed his mind. There will he a third list on the King’s birthday.

AIR HINKLER DECORATED

LONDON, Dec. 21

The Prince of Wales, on behalf of the King, received Mr Bert Hinkler at St. .James’ Palace and decorated him with tlie Air Force Cross. AEROPLANES IN WAR. OUTLAWRY PROPOSED IN FRENCH SENATE. PARIS, Dec. 24. _A. suggestion that the use of aeroplanes in war should be outlawed, and that 'commercial aviation should Jieinternational, was made .in the Senate to-day by M. de .Jouvenal, an ex-editor of “Lo Matin.”

M. de Jouvcnal’s proposal, that France should make such an idea part o.f her disarmament programme at Geneva, was met with hostile jeers by ono Senator, who remarked, “What a splendid speech for our enemies abroad!”

M. do Jon venial vigorously attacked the'French Government for increasing its military expenditure.

EXPLOSION IN BERLIN

LONDON, Dec. 24

The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” says that an explosion resembling the Loudon upheaval occurred at a, local railway station, when an oil gas pipe, leading underneath the rails, from which the gas. receptacles in the passenger coaches were filled, became leaky. The' gas percolated upwards, anti was set alire by some means. A series of violent explosions followed, tlie flames' spreading for several hundreds'of .square yards, stopping traffic on 23 sets of lines. The firemen were several hours in controlling tin* outbreak. OBITUARY. MR BEN SPOOR. * LONDON, December 23. The death is announced of Mr Ben Spoor, M.P. at the age of fifty. MR GEORGE WARNE, M.P. LONDON, December 21. Mr George Warne, the Labour member of Parliament, is dead. Me was tarty-seven years of age. "Til E EARL OF DAL 110 US lE. LONDON, December 24. Tho Earl 'of Dalhousic died to-day. He was fifty years of age. Lord Dalhousic was the fourteenth earl. He .succeeded Ills father in 1.3(57: He served iii the Scots Guards in South Africa. His heir is his elder son, Lord Ramsay.

Mil STACY AUMONIER

LONDON, December 24

The death is announced oif Mr Stacy AumOnier, tlie author at the age ol forty-one.

HELP FOR MINERS

GIFTS FROM ALL OVER COUNTRY

LONDON, December 23

South Wales is having a brighter Christmas than it dared hope, and thousands of miners homes will remember with gratitude the 1928 Yulotido. as a result of tho work of .many agencies trying to alleviate their miseries.

The Lord Mayor’s fund sent £15,000 to he expended chiefly on footwear and warm garments for mothers and children, and arranged for the loan of maternity outfits. A Cardiff stockbroker gave £SOO to provide Christmas dinners for children. Flout and vege tables were widely distributed amongst the miners’-households. The miners’ Federation alone‘handled 26.100 parcels of gifts Ifrom all parts-of Britain in the last three weeks. The Y.M.C.A. is giving special attention to clothing young miners and securing employment in England and overseas..

TROPICAL DISEASES

CONFEHENCE RESOLUTIONS

LONDON, December 24

• The Cairo correspondent of “The Times” says that the international congress on tropical medicine and , hygiene passed a resolution that (1) In view of the importance of anthropo- , metric and morphological studies, not .only regarding the classificatioon df human races, but also regarding the ethnological aptitude of individuals, this question should he specially studied by faculties and schools of medicinv in the tropics; (2) in -view of leprosy 'menacing humanity, tho Governments of ail nations represented at the conference should co-operate systematically to combat the disease by discovering sufferers and organising intensive ambulation treatment-in early cases. .

BUILDING COLLAPSES

FIVE WORKMEN KILLED.

PARIS, December 2b

The dentil roll as a result of tho collapse oif reinforced concrete buildings under construction oil the Continent has been increased by a disaster at Samur, where live workmen were killed and six injured when about a score wen* engaged in removing the internal scaffolding supporting the roof and moulds.

'flic entire building, which had boon designed as a store for machine-guns, collapsed like a house of cards. Four bodies were extricated from the ruins, tho other man dying at the hospital.

GREEK COMMUNISTS

BILL FOR SUPPRESSION

LONDON, December 21

The Athens correspondent of tho “Daily .Mail” reports that the Government has introduced a Bill imposing severe penalties on persons carrying on Communist propaganda. Officers and civilian ‘employers showing Red tendencies can be dismissed Ir'om the Government service. Communist associations will ho dissolved and Red newspapers suppressed.

COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS

UNITED STATES AGREES TO

PARTICIPATE

WASHINGTON, December 24

Tin* British Ambassador, Sir Esmo Howard, called on Air F. B. Kellogg, Secretary of State, on .Monday, on behalf of the Allied Governments and Germany, to convey their desire 'lor United States participation in the fill 1 settlement of the reparations question. Mr Kellogg afterwards conferred with President Coolidgc, and later the Government assented to the appointment of United States experts to serve on the expert committee-, with an undeistanding that the United States representatives would he chosen and appointed by the Allied and German Governments.