GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

CABINET’S DECISION

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Telegraph.—Copyright.)

LONDON, Fob. 22

In the Commons Mr Baldwin announced that Government had reviewed the question of the payment made to Irish loyalist. The recommendations of wie Advisory Committee would be paid in full. Cabinet has never taken the view that payments were a debt of honour.

AMENITIES

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.

Praising the Kellogg Treaty as an instrument which must- weigh heavily in the balance for the cause of peace, Sir Esme Howard declared on Friday that George "Washington must eventually prove the greatest link in the chain of friendship and common understanding between United States and Britain. Speaking at the commemoration of Washington’s birthday before the Daughters of American revolution and Sons of American revolution and Children of American revolution, the British Ambassador deplored any spirit of enmity in criticisng those on both sides of the Atlantic who “enjoy stirring up trouble, and whose lips distil gall and wonhword, whose pens are dipped in vitriol.” JAPANESE DISASTER. TOKYO, February 24. A renewed cold wave and terrific winds in northern Japan prevail. There are many conflagrations including the entire destruction of Kisennuma with over two thousand dwellings near Sendai. ROYAL MARRIAGE AND TOUR, TOKIO, February 24. Jt is unofficially announced that Tokamatau, who visited. Australia in July, marries early in 1930, Kikulco Tokugawa, a grand-daughter of the last of the Shoguns, thereafter proceeding to England on a courtesy return visit of Prince Henry.