GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

JEWISH SYNAGOGUE. LEGAL RECOGNITION IN SPAIN. [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] , MADRID, Dec. 27. The Jirist legally recognised synagogue since the expulsion of the Jews in 1492, has been opened with a congregation of thirty families. A police representative read out the protocal arid provisional statutes to the' congregation which afterwards signed the docutiients. : .i Senor Bauer, whose personal intervention with King Alfonso, secured recognition of the Jewish community, presides at the synagogue. A , section of the civil cemetery at .Seville, despite Church opposition, has been reserved for Jewish burials. i SIR GEORGE CLIFFORD. VA LU ABLE ENG L ISH ESTATE. LONDON, December 27. The late Sir George Clifford, who was chairman of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company, Ltd . at the time of his death, left an English estate valued at £39,015. RESTRICTING PRODUCTION. LONDON, December 26. ■ Sir William Peat, -Chairman, of the Tin Products’ Association Executive, informed the members of the Executive that the International Commit-, tees, after obtaining the views of the leading producers on every field had decided that it was essential to reinforce the present voluntary regulation by a more comprehensive and more durable arrangement. Plans were prepared for an agreement lasting two years, and embracing practically ninety per cent, of the world output whereby irrespective of the date of acceptance, and quotas would be retrospective from January Ist, 1931. The rations would be based on the 1929 output. The Malayan ration would be thirty-seven point fourteen per cent, thereof. The scheme was now being sumibitted to the Governments concerned for their assent. BRITAIN’S CHILDREN. LONDON, December 29. Sir Georgb Newman, in liis annual report on the. health of school children says that Britain is annually saving forty thousand lives which were not being saved a generation ago. This preservation of the less physicially fit children, combined with the fact that the birth rate is declining more rapidly among the better physicial stocks than among the less fit classes, he says, explains why the present generation of school children; in ay be j 4y lacking in physicial stamina, and in powers of resistance. RISING OF DERVISHES. CONSTANTINOPLE, December 29. Numerous arrests of Driverish Sheikhs, including their Grand Chief, have followed upon an attempted revolt in Manemrin-j in which five were killed. The Government discovered a widespread conspiracy among the former heads of the Dervish monastries, which .monastries were abolished--by; the Government some years ago. President Kernel Pasha has issued a manifesto deploring the savagery of the Dervishes of Manemen, some of whom drank the blood of a slain officer. The arrests total one hundred. MAN JUMPS INTO MOLTEN METAL. LONDON, December 29. Complaining to his wife that hit week’s wages of 32s was too small, Ernest Gehrmann put ori his besi clothes and returned to the. stee’ works at Cologne, where he was employed . He lighted a cigar, stood nriar the rriixing crucible full of molten metals, and as the cover of the crucible was lifted Gehnnnnfi, stil' smoking, suddenly mounted the staging and jumped into the glowing mass. He was immediately incinerated. INDIAN TENNIS. DELHI, December 29. Crowded galleries saw Bunny Austin at his best when he defeated K. Andrews 6 —2, 7—5, 6—l, in the .final or the Calcutta Championship. 'Hie New Zealander forgot Austin thrives on speed and his only points were gained when lie resorted to lobbing and slicing. Brooke Edwards and Miss Sandison beat Hadges and Mrs Stork 6—l, 6 —3 in the mixed doubles. BURMA REBELLION. strong Hold in mountains. iitecriived thi* dav at 9. a.m.j ; DELHI, Dee. 29. Ensconsed in the fastnesses of Alan thaung mountains behind five miles of impenetrable jungle, Burma rebels have hitherto defied the efforts of strong forces of troops and police to dislodge them. They are equipped with hundreds of rifles and ammunition arid occupy a position reflanked by long lines of felled trees. The Government forces who are planning a joint offensive to-day will have a difficult tank and the expedition is likely to last for several weeks. Rebels captured ;a<t the week-end state their headquarters are in the. mountains, and leader and organiser who is a Shan chief named Sliwe Yyi.

Hon or Golden Crow. His avowed a.im is to become King of Burma. Those captured bear tattooed regimental numbers and state they were pressed into the rebellion. 4