GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

JAPANESE POLITICS. (United Press Association.—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) TuKYO. December o. Saburi’s death has seriously embarrassed the Government on account of most important negotiations and treaties pending with China. Bata, formerly Ambassador to Turkey, has been offered the position of Minister at Peking and has accepted. NEW GOVERNOR’S ATTACHES. LONDON, December 5. Lord Bledisloe has appointed Major Bathurst, bis brother, as military secretary. His regiment. Royal Beikshires, is affiliated with the First Hawke’s Bay Regiment. Bathurst served in the African and Great Wars and afterwards was private secretary for Lord Irwin, when the latter, was ’Under-Secretary lor the Colonies. Bathurst is a keen social and church worker. Sir Hamham is likely to be aideeamp. He is a nephew of Lord Bledisloe’s first wife. j TRANSPORT STRIKE. (Received this .day at 8 a.m.) ToklO, Dec. 6. The transportation services are crippled completely by a strike of tram and motor-bus operatives, dissatisfied at the reduction of the yearly bonus, due to the Government retrenchment policy. The agitators have been arrested. Owing to the extreme inconvenience to the populace a compromise is believed to be inevitable. GERMAN STATEMENT. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 6. Tbe “Daily Herald’s” correspondent at Berlin says Scbaclit (President of the Reichshank) is publishing a startling statement to-day, declaring Hague alterations made the Young Plan unworkable and falsified the intentions of experts. VALUABLE PRESENTS EXCHANGED. ROME, Dec 0. The Italian Royal visit to the Pope was marked by an exchange of tiie most costly presents. The King and Queen gave (His Holiness a jewelled pictorial cross and also a crucifix, which was formerly owned by the Venerable Clotilde of Savoy. The Pope gave the King a collection of Vatican souvenirs, and to the Queen he presented a jewelled golden rosary, and also a mosaic of Raphael’s Madonna of the Chair.

The Queen, in’.conformity with the Vatican decree, wore a long-sleeved dress, reaching to the ankles.