GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

JAP TRAINING SHIP. BELIEVED TO HAVE FOUNDERED fUnited Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] ‘Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) TOKYO, Aug. 18. The training ’skip. Showamaur is overdue at Hokkaido and is believed to have foundered with all hands is the recent typhoon. The authorities have searched fruitlessly for her. JAPS AND MANCHURIA. MUKDEN’S LEADER DEAD. WAS HE ASSASSINATED. SHANGHAI, August 16. Chang Hsueh Liang, the young marshal of Mukden, is reported to have died while on a holiday at Peiteilio. It is uncertain whether bis death was due to natural causes or was due to assassination. The story lias reached British circles, but it is denied by the Japanese. ■WEDDING TRAGEDY. WARSAW August 17. There were 25 deaths, .which resulted' from eating mushrooms, at a wedding feast in the Bydgoszez region. The victims included a entire family of eight, with the bride and the bridegroom. LABOUR DELEGATE'S VIEWS. (Received this dnv at 12.25. p.m. ■ LONDON, Aug. 17. . W. C. F. Thomas, employers delegate at the International Labour Conference at Geneva, is. conferrng with Charles Crofts, an employees delegate, concerning the advisability of reporting upon the futility of Australia sending delegates to such conferences. . He' said: “I realise Australian labour conditions are so far ahead of other nations, that Australia is unable to consider uniform international labour codes, with the retrogression which is too ludicrous and serious consideration. Personally I intend ly inform the Government that the sending of an Australian delegation is Unwarranted and. a waste of mon- ■ -r • *, .. ;;ru -ia• ey.” WHEAT CARGOES. • LONDON, Aug. 18. Wheat cargoes are dull. Sellers are willing to accept ’lower terms. Parcels are inactive End' cased .tl.reepeiice- to! sixpenceJ-Futiires. London. September 33k Bd. December 34s 2d. Liverpool 7s l|d, : December 7s 2d, March 7s 2)d.