GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

GENERAL SMUTS* CORRECTION. (United Press •‘Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). CAPETOWN, Feb. 1. General Smuts states . the Dublin version of Clio re-drafting of tbe King’s speech at the opening of the North of Ireland’s Parliament is inaccurate, and was obviously written by some one little in the know. The true story is more interesting. 1 cannot tell secrets. HOSTILITIES HELD UP. DELHI, Feb. 1. Ono Briton and eight Indians attached to the Legation at Kabul were brought to Peshawar by air yesterday. The capital is snow-bound, and it is impossible that the opposing forces will approach it during the next tvo months. According to a member of the Legation, Bacchasakao secured Amanullah’s dismissal by trickery. Bacchasakao persuaded Amanullah to give him eighty thousand rupees aiid troops, with a promise he would silence the Shinwaris, who were opposed to reforms. Bacchasakao immediately captured and looted tbe city. FRENCH POLITICS. PARTS, Feb. 2. TjUe Premier, :M. Poincare, in the course of a two,hours’ speech in the Chamber of Deputies, on the subject o) Alsace, aroused the anger of the Alsatian autonomists by his quotations from their speeches clearly showing that theirs was a separatist tendency. Each time Hie autonomists endeavoured to minimise the importance ol the quotations, Al. Poincare retorted: “Oh. you disavow!” The Premier argued that when the Alsatian autonomists supported the thesis o'! national min orities, they awoke echoes across the Rhine. M. Poincare’s speech will be issued in pamphlet form throughout Alsace. SHOOTING TRAGEDY. (Received this day at S a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 3. A shooting drama occurred in the smoking room of the Royal Hotel. Buxton. A customer, ex-Sergt. -Major Hayward fired a revolver twice, slightly wounding a barmaid, Ellen Trenholme. The proprietor, Frank Turner, hearing screams, rushed to protect the girl when he received a bullet in the brain and fell dead. Hayward then put the muzzle in his mouth and committed suicide REPLY TO POINCARE. BERLIN, Feb. 2. i M. Poincare in the course of his two hour speech, cabled to-day, daunted Germany with having a propaganda fund of 4,525,000 sterling. Stresemann states the fund is onl\ 1,075,000 sterling. The chief itcm> are Ministry of Foreign Affairs and secret service, three hundred thousand, promotion of news service; abroad, a hundred and twenty thousand; new services at home, twentj thousand eight hundred; and promotion of hiimanitnries and cultural re lations in foreign enquiries three Inin dred thousand sterling. Stresemani argued that four him red thousand a) - lotted to, the Ministry for occupied territories could hardly he regarded a; propaganda, because after all, the occupied territories were part of ih< German empire requiring special care.