GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

COTTON DISPUTE. LORD DERBY MAY MEDIATE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 6. Operative spinners concerned in the Lancashire cotton wages dispute yesterday declined to empower thenexecutive to negotiate with the employers on the basis of any wage reduction. The weavers and card room workers have taken the same stand. The suggestion has been made that Lord Derby, who has great influence in Lancashire, should be asked to mediate. i

FASCISTS’ PROPAGANDA. OUTCRY AGAINST SNOWDEN. B.OME, August 8. The “Giornale d’ Italia,” commenting on Mr Snowden’s attitude at the Reparations Conference, wonders whether the Labour Government intends completely to change the foreign policy of the Conservatives, and having 'estranged the whole of Europe, base its policy upon friendship with America. The “Tribune” says Mr Snowden resembles Shylock in his demands for his pound of flesh. STAG HUNTING. LONDON, August 8. As a sequel to the increasing protests against stag hunting, on the ground of cruelty, the Secretary of •the famous Devon and Somerset Stag Hunt has announced that the committee has decided that in future when a stag takes to water, the hounds will he called off, and the stag shot instead of being hunted up and down the stream, and then killed with a knife.

AFGHAN KING. (Received thri dav at 11 a.m., DELHI, August 8. Baccha is iu danger of following Anianullah unless he changes his ideas. He has surprisingly adopted European dress and drives in a RollsRoyce. Discontent is rife in Kabul hut the people, have not the courage, openly to revolt.