GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

DISGUSTED TENNIS PLAYER. (United Prßee Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). ROM""'' '>-+n,ber 27. Declaring he was disgusted . with the large number of tennis players calling themselves amateurs who make a good living from the ganiPin the sidelines, Dr Morpurgo is giving up tennis and confining himself to golf. GERMAN CABINET. RECONSTRUCTION PROBLEM. ' BERLIN, Oct. 28. Chancellor Mueller has began negotiations for the reconstruction of the Cabinet in • consequence -of the death of Dr Stresemann. Well-informed circles believe Herr Curtis will be confirmed as Foreign Minister. Herr Mueller’s task will be most difficult owing to the different parties forming the coalition,, but he is doing his utmost to preserve unity pending the Ratification of the Young Plan. , ~ DEATH ..SENTENCES. RUSSIAN CRIMES. , {'! j•' MOSCOW, October 27. A so-called “ class-war front” is responsible tf oil. thirty-two death-sentences announced by yesterday’s newspapers, - including fourteen officials at.

Astrakhan, for allegedly . failing to crush, or favouring, private enterprise. ; There 'weare 108 pertal servitude sentences, ranging from one year to ten years. The O.G.P.U. shot' a priest psalm reader and and two peasants f.or opposing “ land redistribution.” Another priest and four churchwardens were sentenced to death for protesting aLthe closing of the church and assembling a crowd by ringing the churqh bells. Nine/ others were sentenced to ten ypars imprisonment after which they are to be exiled. f "-Minor newspapers record the executions of nine peasants which the chief newspapers do not trouble to report.

. PILLION, RIDING FOR GIRLS. f ; :SIR A. LANE’S ADVOCACY. IP ... v LONDON, . Oct. 28. felThe prejudice against the pillion girl is not shared by Sir Arbuthno.t Lane, the surgeon. In a public address at Stepney, he said that one of the most attractive sights of the present day , was a young man with a girl riding pillion. .It- takes city people out of the .smoke into the sunlight, which the •human body most needed. There was an outcry because some were killed, but they were few compared with the thousands benefited. \ /' RADIO PHONE FOR, LINER/ LONDON, Oct. 29. - The White Star Company is installing a short wave wireless telephone in the Olympic, thus enabling "the pas;sengers,>'to telephone from mid-ocean ,fo theirs homes or , office's. . FINANCIAL STABILITY OF AUSTRALIA. * LONDON,,October 28. Sir G. Ryrie (Australian High Commissioner) has issued for publication throughout England a cablegram from Mr Jas. H. Scullin, Prime Minister of Australia. It lays stress on Australia’s financial stability, on similar lines to a statement recently issued from Melbourne.