GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

TREATMENT OF FOREIGNERS

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) PARIS, December 6. The Equality of Foreigners Conference has ended abruptly without the agreement. The delegates suggest another conference in 1930. Meantime tne Governments will study the reports. FRANCE AND ITALY. PARIS, December 6. According to those who are well-in-formed, AI. Briand lias made it clear to Signor Mauzoni that France is not prepared to entertain the idea of naval parity with Italy, on the ground that it would really be disparity, because with half her force scattered through out the world, France would be inferior to Italy, who would be able to concentrate in the Atedittcrean. MOTORISTS AND PEDESTRIANS. LONDON, December 5. The..House.of Lords carried the second reading of the Traffic Bill. Lord Russell, replying to the debate, which stressed' the need for the-regularised movement of the' pedestrian; as well as a" better standard of driving among motorists, agreed it was riebessary .to improve the driving of motorists, and also the road sense of; pedestrians. The latter considered, rightly or wrongly,- that the; roads were the same as the grass grown tracks of their childhood, HOUSE OF LORDS. WIDOWS PENSION BILL. LONDON, Dec. G. In the House of .Lords, the disagreement of the House of Commons with the amendment as to Necessitous Widows in the Pensions Bill, which amendment was passed by the House of Lords on December 3rd, was reported by Lord Salisbury. Lord Salisbury said (the anitendmeut was carried by the House of Lords as a protest against growing burdens that the Government was throwing on taxpayers, the House of Lords expressing alarm at the effect it must have on industry, and also expressing a desire to record profound apprehensions. The House of Lords, without division, agreed not to insist on its amejndment. The House of Lords then passed the hill.

REPARATIONS CRISIS. GERMAN OPPOSITION. BERLIN, Dec. 7. The German Nationalists hail Heir Schacht’s pronouncement with delight as scoring a point in their campaign against the ratification of the ) oung, Reparations plan. The German Government has issued a communique condemning the memorandum of Herr Sehacht as dangerous interference in State affairs. . It has also declared that the Chancellor will submit the whole financial programme to a confidence vote of the Reichstag. TAKEN BY SHARK. A SYDNEY ANGLER. SYDNEY, December 8. Three anglers were washed off the rocks at La Perouse yesterday. Two of them were rescued, hut the third, Thomas Duggan, aged 26. years a former pugilist, was taken by a shark while being rescued by a strong fishing line. Duggan was not seen again.