GENERAL CABLES
WORLD’S SHIPPING
[United Preset Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]
(Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 21.
The annual report of Lloyds Register of Shipping, emphasises the large proportion of tanker tonnage built and the continued demand for motor shins.
During twelve months to 30th June, 1930, plans for GOl vessels, of over two million toils were approved, the •,'ngnest since >bhe record year j.' 1920.
Britain, followed by Japan was in the lead in the new constructions. The total tonnage of merchantmen afloat at the end of June, 1930. amounted to thirty-two and a half million, an increase of nearly a million compared with the previous highest total, in June, 1929.
LORD MAYOR’S SHOW,
LONDON, Oct. 21
A feature of the Lord Mayor’s Show will be a pageant of Empire produce including cam representing Australia and New Zealand.
CHINESE COMMUNISTS
OUTRAGES UPON MISSIONARIES
(Received this day at 10 30 a.m.) SHANGHAI, Oct. 21.
A further outrage upon Goreing missionaries is reported in official telegrams reaching Peking. It appears Communists captured a Roman Catholic Bishop and a number of Priests and Sisters at Kianfu, killing, two Priests. A Bishop and one Priest were released, presumably to arrange for ransom.v
During 1939, over one hundred foreign missionaries wore captured by bandits of which about a third were murdered. t
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