GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

-BISHOP’S SERMON

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LONDON, Jan. 20

■ Bishop Ripon, preaching a special disarmament- sermon , at- Westminister Abbey, which was intended to be the Ohm eld's leitd - to , 4 the.. -Cowiereneers, said .the: stage - was-, s'et Tor an international conference of - greater . .moment than any since 1919. The results would be judged in the light of the Pact of Paris, that..solemn renunciaiont of war as an instrument of national policy. If i after signing the Pact, the great naval Powers with every motive for reducing expenditure, on armaments yet find themselves unable, will obviously mean one thing, that is they might just as well proclaim the Pact of Paris to be the scrap of paper which cynics always said it is. ■

TIN DREDGERS. SI NG APORIV January '2O. Sixty-nine -dredges of a total of one hundred and five, stopped tin winning the. last week-end j- iui;l tilling . the important AiGtral-At ay Group. I - This is twenty more than, last week,- including the largest producers of tin SINGAPORE BASE. LONDON, Jan. 20. It is clear Mr Ramsty. MacDonald has intimated to the Dominion representatives -that if thef Naval 'Conference. lives up to ;his.,.hopes, there w ill he 'no -need - -for r Singapore naval base*.. It will- not,;be ; ,surpiising to,find Air Scullin in,- iu)Ragreement, biit New- Zealand’s present ,-in tent i o.n is to strongly.,-press for,, the completion of the,- base. -^ojhing}/definite can be known regarding ..Singapore, until considerable progress has been made at St. James’ Palace. It is not expected that the , other Dominions will enter the controversy.