GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

j A FALSE REPORT. (United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) i ,IX)NDQN, October 19. A member of the Right Hon Mr Ramsay MacDonalcPs staff, referring to a trans-Atlantic conversation recorded in the Evening Standard, denied a reported statement that the Prime Minister had made a statement in Canada to the effect that he was likely to retire. .It was untrue to say that the Prime Minister had contemplated such an act, and at present he was perfectly fit. DIPLOMATIC service APPOINTMENTS. • ■ RUGBY, October 16.

The King has approved of the appointment of Mr Cecil Francis Dormer, Counsellor in his Majesty’s Diplomatic Service, to be. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Bangkok (Siam). The King has also approved of the appointment of Mr Reginald Harvey Hoare, Counsellor in his Majesty’s Diplomatic Service, to be Minister Plenipotentiary whilst employed in the Residency at Cario. (Mr Dormer has been Counsellor at the Embassy, of Tokio since 1926 Mr Hoare has served in the Diplomatic Service at Constantinople, Rome, Peking, Leningrad,... and Warsaw.). LOOTING AT KABUL. • • FOREIGN LEGATIONS, VISITED. DELHI, October 19. Four of the Foreign Legations at Kabul, including the British . Legation were attacked and looted, following the capture of the city by ShahWalis troops, who ran amok; sacking Amanullah’s palace and the treasury. Three men were killed gallantly defending the British Legation from attack by Kohistani tribesmen.

SUNBATHING IN LONDON. LONDON, October 18. Mr George Lansbury, a member of. the Government, who is fast becoming a “Fairy Godmother Ministry,” and who is oft photographed sitting in children’s swings in parks, v supervising playgrounds, announces that he will allow sunbathing in Regents Park. He said: “I am arranging a special site for sunbathing with little shelter.” V; As recently as two years ago, people Were fined for sunbathing in. Parks, as being indecent.