GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

PEASANTS’ CONGRESS. [United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright]. BERLIN, March 31. The first European Peasant Congress has been opened at Berlin. It is announced as being an important step towards international co-operation on the part of the peasants. They arrested two dozen of the visiting delegation on the ground that they were without passports. The police state that the principal initiators of the Congress are in close connection with the Kremlin at Moscow. Those arrested Include seventeen described as Poles, four Czechs, and two Russians. It is expected that they will be immediately expelled. ANTI-GOD CAMPAIGN. RIGA, March 31. The Soviet is engaged in altering the place names in Russia that have a religious flavour. The towns of Sergieri and Bogorodsk, the former recalling St. Sergius, and the latter meaning Our Lady’s Town,. have been renamed Sagorsk and Noginsk, in honour of Communist celebrities. BRITISH DEFICIT.

LONDON, April 1. The national financial, year ended last night with a deficit of £14,523.000 which compares with the surplus of £13,394,000 for the previous year. The revenue totalled £734,189,000, which is £23,915,000 below that of last year, and is also £12,111,000 less than Mr Winston Churchill’s revised estimate of April last. . The expenditure amounted to £748 - 712,000 or £9,002,000 more than last year, and £6,748,000 above the Budget estimate.