GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 14 May 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy right. ]

LONDON, May 13. Obituary—John Wheatley, the Commoner.

slump in japan

POLICE FE AR UNEMPLOYED

TOKIO, May. 13

Business depression is becoming alarming worse in Japan. During tlie month of April, nine hundred and forty five factories in Tokio _ alone were closed, discharging twenty thousand workmen, and increasing the huge army of unemployed.

Alleviation of the distress is not in sight.

The police fearing trouble, have prohibited a mass meeting called by the proletarians for to-morrow.

BRITISH WOOL MANUFACTURERS. LONDON, May i 3.

The Bradford strike by the woo.l ui factory operatives against wage cutting is endangering next season s trade owing to the masters’ inability to get out their patterns. The fact that the foreigners are availing themselves of the oppor'tun..'y of capturing business is regarded as a reason for their activity in the A.mtralian and other wool markets, with the result that the prices for tops for forward delivery range about .ms. follows: Sixty-fours : warp. 29* peri sixty-fours average 28d, fifties 22fd, forty-sixes 18d, forties lE&d. . -

MURDER PANIC. BERLIN, May 12

Panic prevails at Ratibon in Upper SUesui following a series of baffling knife attacks on youths, two of which have been fatal. People believe the Dusseldorf vampire is at work, as at Dusseldorf. There was no attempt at robbery in the first case. A boy of sixteen w r as found in a woodshed stabbed in the heart and neck. Then a young' commercial traveller was taken to the hospital with ferocious gashes in his body. He reported bis assailant jumped upon . him unseen. Finally a; youthful tailor was found dead on Sunday morning close to the place .where a , schoolboy" 'AV.as : killed q week-^fo-re, \’U ! ’ ...

arrested a Czech named 5 -iUf-auseiy : -who' is alleged to have - - been' in-.possession of a blood stained,''- dagger, hut the;,; public re-fusesYbyb’e-calmed. . . '