GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

. INDIAN FLOODS. INDUS RIVER RISING I PERILOUSLY. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy right). DELHI, August 22. Over twenty Ijliousaiid flood refugees have arrived at Karachi. Heavy rain is falling in Sind, and the Indus River is rising- perilously. COLONEL RUTHERFORD RELEASED. LONDON, August 22. The Daily Express reveals that Colonel Rutherford was released from Broadmoor, at the beginning of the year on condition that he left England. He has taken up his residence in the East, but his family, has received no direct communication from him since his release. TRADE UNION CONGRESS. VLADIVOSTOK, Aug. 22. The Chief question before the Pacific. Ocean Trade Union Congress will be necessity for an intensified struggle against moderate reformist, .leadership in trade unions. Secretary Browder claims that already the fight against old leaders has been partly successful. The influence of moderates is declining in Australia, India and eleswhere. ’ SILK RAISING’. IMPERIAL t JNSTTTUTE’S MISSION. RUGBY,-Aug. 20. At the invitation of the respective, Governments the Imperial Institute 1 has arranged for Mr Norton Breton to visit Tanganyika , Uganda, Nvasaland, Southern Africa for the purpose of studying the possibilities of silk-rais-ing on a commercial scale. Mr Breton is chairman of the Advisory Committee on Silk Production in the Empire at the Imperial Institute, and under its auspices experiments, is silk-growing in these countries have been proceeding for some time.