GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

AMY JOHNSON.

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

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) COLOMBO, July 16

Amy Johnson was rapturously received on comiilg ashore from the Naldera. She received an exquisite necklace set of Ceylon ge-nis and other presents. She attended a civic reception and was motored to the 1 country seat of Sir Solomon Bandaranaik.

NEAR TWO MILLIONS

BRITAIN’S UNEMPLOYED

•LONDON, July 16. The number of unemployed in Britain on July 7th totalled 1,933,500. This is the highest number in the last nine years.

P ARLIA MENTARY UNION

IMPORTANCE OF CO-OPERATION

(Received this day at 11 a.m./

LONDON, July 16

The Duke of Sutherland, President of the British,-Section of tho Interparliamentary Union, in welcoming) delegates at the Royal Gallery in the House of Lords, urged the importance of international co-operation. He said another great war will kick us all into an aby|s, whence we may not return to seek peace. Lord. Robert Cecil said the Na-val IQonference negotiations had been conducted too much in a war atmosphere. If ive had the continent oi Europe as peaceful as North America, it would be a long step towards the pacification of the world. CAP! TAL PUNISHMENT. (Received this, day -at noon.) LONDON, July 16. A weird story of a man who underwent capital punishment and committed murder afterwards, formed part of Sir Simon Vonderaa’s evidence before the Capital Punishment committee. The man was hanged but not in a direct way. When the executioner came to take him off, lie found he had lost his senses, but was alive. He gave him money to escape. The man became a hospital servant and three years later killed a hospital patient. 0

- Sir Simon recited another case of a man who committed rriurder after witnessing an execution two days before.