GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). SISTER’ S STATEMENT. LONDON, Jan. 15. Messi tor’s .sister says there is no mystory about the code letters received b.v her brother from a woman in America. They met when ho was wounded as an officer in the hospital during the war. She was a nurse. They were about the same age. They were just friends, and nothing more. CHINESE WARNED. TOKYO, Jan. 15. Increasing anti-Japanese demonstrations at Jlankow arc causing anxiety, possibly necessitating the landing of marines for protection of Japanese subjects and their properties. The Chinese authorities have been warned that they are either unable or unwilling to control the situation. EH El CHIT CHARGES SECRECY. LONDON, January 15. A circular, which has been sent to merchants, marked “ Private and confidential,” conveying a bare outline of tho freight increases contains the following hush-hush paragraph marked “Important”—“lt is particularly requested that no iniformation l>c given to tho press, in that there be no fear of the Australian authorities imposing a compensating duty, as there has been in some cases hitherto.” It is reported in the city that Mr Bruce has cabled the shipowners commenting most strongly on the increases. A NOVELIST SUICIDES. LONDON, January 15. Austin James Smill, novelist, with the pen name “ Seamark,” was found dead in a London flat with his head in a gas-oven. He was formerly naval heavyweight boxing champion.

NEW ZEALAND LOAN. LONDON, Jan. 15. Small applicants in the cash portion of the New Zealand loan received the full allotlinont and large subscribers about eighty-six per cent. CANCER CAMPAIGN LONDON, Jam 15. ' The Council of the British Empire Cancer Campaign has invited tho Queensland Cancer Trust to become a branch of the parent hodv. and also resolved to offer two prizes of £SOO each for the best original piece of investigatory work carried on in the Empire, lim to 1933.