GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1931, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

GERMAN PROPOSAL. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copy right. J MERLIN, February 21. Schiele, Minister of Agriculture, introduced in the Reiehtsag a Bill specially interesting to Australia and New Zealand, proposing a sliding scale of customs duties for butter, fruits, timber, and meat, variable as the market situation demands. He said the development of the reparations problems might necessitate swift measures to make Germany independent QjKfbroign food supplies. Communists noisly protest against tho “Starvation Bill” and two had to he expelled before there was a restoration of order! A SOVIET DENIAL. LONDON, February 2-1. es tin? Geneva report that there tire fifteen million trainees at 15th. February. as “a complete- invention, based on a document which never existed.” EPIDEMIC TN JAPAN. TOK.TO, February 25. The epidemics of typhoid and or scarlet fever are increasing in Tokio. Nearly six hundred sufferers arc being sent to the hospitals daily, taxing the capacity of the hospitals to ovorfiowing. GERMAN UNEMPLOYED. BERLIN, February 21. The unemployed in Germany number t .001,000, an increase during the mouth of KMS thousand.