GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

INDO CHINESE REDS

[United Press Association—By Electri Telegraph—Copyright).

PARIS, February 16

There is intense indignation at the iews that two French officers and

three non-coms., at Yen Bay, in Itido China have been murdered in their beds by a handful of native desperadoes, who planned an attack on the barracks. The desperadoes, thereafter, threatening the death, pressganged a number of men of the. regiment. They captured two wings of the barracks and ran up the Red Flag. The battalion commander called on the Loyalists, who counter-attacked at dawn and. recaptured the buildings.

BRITISH FARMING

LONDON, February 16,

A meeting of one thousand farmers and farnt workers, at Aberdeen, passed a resolution calling the Government’s attention to the crisis in arable farming, and expressing the opinion that their industry could only be maintained by the control of imports and of the economic price for Home pro ducts.

AFRICAN POLITICS

(Received this day at 10 a.m.' CAPETOWN, Feb. 17

General Smuts who returned to-day, interviewed, said the cause of world peace and better human relations, was slowly making headway. In the struggle for the world’s markets, an intense international situation required close watching from a peace viewpoint.

On the motion for instruction, for the Committee of the whole House to base the entry of emigrants on the percentage of foreign horn population of South Africa, General Smuts made a fervent appeal to avoid any invidious distinctions between countries and pleaded for the adoption of the American system, and thereby avoid the passing of a stigma on any people. Mr Hertzog emphatically refused, because he was not prepared to leave an open door to an element which might lead to disruption in the South African nation. The motion was lost hv a majority of twenty.

POLICE STATEMENT. PARIS, Feb. 17

Statements made by the police point to the possibility that Koutepoff was taken in a ear near Tourville and thence aboard a Soviet vessel lying off the coast.

AN OPTIMISTIC VIEW. LONDON, Fob. 17

Addressing Bradford Textile Society, William Hunter. ex-President of the Wool Federation said he was convinced the lack of confidence resulting from the world-wide money stringency had been greatly exaggerated The impetus decline had taken them further than the most confirmed pessimist had anticipated Steps taken by the Australian growers to stabilise values, constituted an excellent corrective, and would be an assurance to wool buyers, yarn buyers and cloth merchants that they could buy with a feeling that they were not likely to lose money, and would allow them to anticipate their requirements over a longer period.