GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1931, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

AGITATORS ARRESTED. (United AHSooiation—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). TOKJO, February 26. Instructions, emanating from the Third International, were discovered in possession of agitators, following the arrest of two hundred, frustrating yesterday’s attempted meeting it.' sympathy with the world-wide unemployment demonstration. FOREIGN CLOTH. BARRED BY HANOI. DIRfHI. February 26. Pam Sahib of Newauagr, better known as Ranii the cricketer, has issued an order prohibiting the sale of foreign doth in his State. He says it is the desire of his subjects that foreign cloth shall not he allowed within the State and dealers have agreed to the order, which remains in force for three months and provides penalties for defiance. CANADA tXI > TUF SOVIET. MONTREAL, Fob. 27. If Canada were to accent the Russian overtures now before the Dominion Government and exchange machinery for Soviet coal and "old she would, in the opinion of Sir Herbert 1 Holt, simply bo expediting hep own economic ruin, since she would he Russia with a means of becoming a more formidable competitor than ever. The veteran president of the Royal Bank. Canada emphatically said in one of his rare newspaper interviews: “V e should not allow Ru'd"” a"d wood to penetrate our markets it produced by conscript labour, which was worse than convict labour. The Soviet, al'ots irunhor of workers to agriculture and lumber enterprises, and unß>s von work we will give you no food."