GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

BAR TO MIGRANTS. PROPOSED FOR BELGIUM. .United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, September 21. “The Times’s” Brussels correspondent states that a Bill will shortly be introduced in. the Belgian Parliament prohibiting foreign workmen from entering the country unless they are coming there to work at a trade in which there is a scarcity of labour. More than ten per cent of the workmen who are engaged in Belgium at the present time are foreigners, chiefly Poles and Italians.

THIEVING JOYRIDERS. SEVERE BRITISH LAW PROPOSED LONDON, September 22. The “borrowing” of a motor car without permission will become a punishable offence if the recommendation of the Council o'f the Magistrates’ Association is adopted by the Government. This is the outcome of a prolonged controversy as to the weakness of the law, which latterly has been responsible for a tremendous increase in the number of cars which have been taken by joyriders and which have been abandoned frequently in a damaged condition. CHINESE ARMY REPORTS. .'Received this dnv nt 10.39. a.m.l SHANGHAI, 'Sept. 22. General Chang Fakuel, commander of the Fourth Nationalist Army has mutinied against Chiangkaishek. Kwanrsi army is reported to be invading Kwantung for the purpose of capturing Canton.