GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

CHINESE FAMINE

CANNIBALISM RIFE

(United Press Association Bv Electric

Telegraph—Copyright)

SHANGHAI, January 25

Reports coming in disclose distress ing conditions m Suiyuan and Kansu. In Suiyan, people are dying of cold and hunger so rapidly .that it is impossilile to elfeet quick enough burial. Many are buried in huge pits, while outside the city of Suiyan huge heaps of corpses are being devoured by wolves and dogs. In Kansu, so missionary reports state, the people are turning to cannibalism, and it is impossible to cope with the situation.

CAPE UNEMPLOYED

RAID FOOD STORES,

CAPETOWN, January 24. ' General Smuts opened the Union Assembly proceedings with a notice or motion off no-conlidenee in the Nation-alist-La hour Government. The Premier (General Hert/.og) gave notice of a motion confirming the Kellogg Pact, and also the German Treaty.

The Governor-General’s speech Midi* rated a reintroduction of the Nativcn Representation and the Coloured Rights Bills. Otherwise, the business is to be confined to urgent measures as this is the last session of tlii Parliament. The Government is providing ifunds for research in connection with the extraction of oil from coal. The Governor-General, on the advice of the Ministers, refused to meet a deputation of the unemployed prior to the opening of Parliament, but Ids secretary accepted a petition. While the police here were occupied in controlling traffic, some unemployed sacked a bakery and some food shops in an outlying district. They felled the single policeman who was on duty.

AUTHORESS DEAD. (Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) LONDON. January 27. Obituary.—Lady Flora Lugard, the authoress.