GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

TEXTILE CRISIS.

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LONDON, April 10

The employers refused to meet a Trades Union Congress delegation to discuss the wool textile crisis. The employers also'have rejected the employees’ offer to take a five per cent, wage reduction. . They insisted on a nine per cent, reduction. A general stoppage, affecting one hundred and fifty thousand operatives is feared on April 11th.

DICTATOR'S TRIAL

SENTENCED AFTER YEARS IN

PRISON

ATHENS, April 8,

The ex-dictator, General Pangalos, who has suent two, and ahull years in prison a,waiting trial, was to-day convicted, alter three weeks’ trial, hv members of Ihe Senate, of granting cone ■ sinus ■ under conditions onerous to tlio Treasury, or savouring of corruption. He was sentenced to two "yon! s’ imr"i" " ni o.nt and live years loss of unlitir.nl rights.

Other ; 1:-rites are still outstanding

FRANCE AND GERMANY

PARIS, April 10

“Le Matin” states M. Briand participates in August in a battlefield’s pilgrimage with one thousand I roncli and German ex-soYvicemon, who, after touring the regions where they fought piicli other, will take a solemn oath “to banish war from the human conscience.” The German Reichstag President will also participate.

STORM IN SYDNEY

(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 11

During the night Sydney was swept by a phenomenal storm which lashed the metropolitan area for an hour. The wind reached a velocity of forty miles an hour, and thirty-nine points of rain M! in thirty- five minutes. Miniature rivers flooded down every street. The water banked up six feet high under the bridge in Ultimo, while efforts were made to rescue a woman who was nearly drowned. At this spot a ear submerged to the hood iir rapidly rising waters. Four occupants scrambled to safety.

During the downpour a woman was killed hv a car at "Petersham.

’PLANE TRAGEDY. BRISBANE. April 11

A Moth ’plane piloted by Captain Linton, with William Coutts as a passenger. crashed at Ayr. Coutts was terribly .crushed and killed instant.lv. The idiot was severely injured. The tracedv was witnessed by a thousand people who attended tlie air pageant.