GENERAL CABLES
TRADE RETURNS
United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received this dnv at 8.30. a.m.) LONDON. October 11.
The Board of Trade returns show imports increased by £10.690.000 exports decreased by £1,515,000, re exports decreased by £119,000. The principal liu'oreases were imports, grain and flour £2,620,600, non-dut-iable food and drink £922,’000, wood and timber £446,0C0, rubber £1,153.000.
Exports, coal £1,148,000. Decreases of exports, cotton yarns and manufactures £1,642,060, vehicles £1,352,060.
Lead imports 25,127 tons, exports 2,355 tons. OBITUARY. LONDON, October 11. Obituary.—Earl Meath. SMUGGLERS ON TRIAL. MOSCOW, Oct. 11. A woman prosecutor demanded death senten es at the trial of 26 persons accused of conspiring with an illegal Latvian organistion for the smuggling of diamonds and currency from the Soviet. The Court held that certain officials or the Latvian Mission, particularly the former Commercial Attache, all of whom fled, had been linked up with snemilators in Moscow, while the Latvian Diplomatic Post was used for the smuggling. The Court sentenced two of the speculators to death. A woman emplovee of the Latvian Mission, to six vears’ imprisonment, and the others to imprisonment and fines. Three were acquitted.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1929, Page 5
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