GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

AN OIL BASE

[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

WELTEVREDEN, Feb. 4

A Batavian newspaper reveals Americans of Saxony are creating a Colonial uil Coy. without the consent of the Dutch and Indian Government. Oil tanks are being built on the island of Riao Archipelago, near Singapore, for the alleged purpose of transhipping oil from Sumatra concessions to Australia. The paper declares the scheme seems suspicious, because instead of choosing one from a thousand islands near the east coast of Sumatra, the promoters have selected one of the farthest north near Singapore. This American oil base may cause the local Singapore and British authorities to ask the Dutch and Indian Government questions. TIN PRICES. - (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, February 5. The council of tin producers associiation announces the approval of practically all interests which justified the adoption of the scheme for the regulation of supplies. Prices rallied to nearly £177 sterling per ton compared "with the recent lowest under £l7l. AN AGREEMENT REACHED. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) PARIS, February 5.

La Petit Parisienes special correspondent in London says an agreement has been reached between Britain and United States regarding capital ships and submarines whereby there will be a naval holiday until 1936, reductions of cruiser tonnage, diminution of size of heavy guns, prolongation of the age limit of battleships. Anglo-United State agreed not to demand a complete suppression of‘submarines but to consider each country have a limt'ed number small fixed tonnage, an also specified tonnage in each class otf light vessels. TWIN GIRLS. NEW YORK, Feb. 5. A report from Indianapolis states ■that Master and Mistress Harvey ■Clark are parents of twin girls. Three others sets of twins all boys were born within forty-five months. , GLIDER AND AIRSHIP. SUCCESSFUL LAUNCHING. NEW YORK, February 1. The' first glider ever launched from an airship was slipped from the tail of the dirigible Los Angeles, when cruising at a height of 3000 feet. Seated in his monoplane glider that weighed 2001 b, Lieutenant Ralph Barnaby, the only licensed glider pilot in the United States Navy, gracefully circled Lakehurst, crossing and recrossed the field a dozen times. He landed fifteen miputes after 1. airship.

ROWDY ASSEMBLY. thiM day at 8.30. a.m.) DELHI, Feb. 5. Despite an electrified atmosphere and much- banging of tables in "the the scene ended with the iresignation of neither the leader of the House nor the president of the (Legislative Assembly. Deadlock continues and the galleries have been closed. INDIAN RAILWAY STRIKE. DELHI, Feb. 5.' l The long expected strike on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway {where the Union is' much under Bolshevick control, began yesterday. •Tile area principally affected are ißoihbay and its suburbs where the workshops are idle. Local and through services are being maintained with difficulty.