GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1931, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

LADY MOSLEY. (United Prßsfl Außooiation—By .Electric Telegraph—Copyright). IDXDOX, March 8. AYhen greeted with cries of “Resign!” Lady Mosley defied a gathering of the Stoke Labour Party. “Cheap humbug,” she said. “If you want anybody to resign, ask the Labour Government, which lias ignored every pledge. Its front benches are inert, spineless and policyless! tariff policy. LONDON, March 9. Professor J. M. Keynes, in a muchquoted article, advocated a tariff, including no discriminating duties, but one or two flat rates each to be applicable through a wide range of categories of goods. .Tt might be one of fifteen per cent, on all manufactures, and five per cent, on foodstuffs and certain raw materials, while other raw materials would be exempt. Professor Keynes expresses the opinion that duties have only an insignificant effect on the cost of living, while they would relieve the pressing budget problems, and would restore business confidence.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN. LONDON, March 8. Thousands mobbed Charlie Chaplin at the Liverpool Street Station, where lie entrained for Berlin. Despite precautions, the crowds surrounded his car, and carried him bodily to the train, where he was only rescued with difficulty. A NEW PHILOSOPHY. LONDON, March 8. Krishnaniurti, on his (reappearance at London with a new philosophy, told over again how lie had disbanded the Order of the Star in the East, because he had declined the revenues and possessions heaped upon him. He said:— “Free yourselves from fear, all convention. social moralities, and organised refigions! D iscover the truth within you! Be guided thereby, and not by anything taught or told!” UNIQUE BELGIAN WAR s MEMORIAL. BRUSSELS. March 8. Perhaps the war’s most unusual memorial is that memorising the war time pigeon carriers, which was unveiled in the presence of a notable gathering, including Burgomaster Max. It consists of a figure of a woman with a pigeon in her hand and is inscribed “to the pigeon soldiers.”

15,000 MILE TOUR. LONDON, March 8. Two Birmingham men, L. W. Murray and W. J. Pearson, have left, with the intention of cycling fifteen thousand miles to Australia, going across Europe to Constantinople, and thence as far as practicable by tbe air route to Darwin. They intend travelling, down the east coast of Australia to Sydney. They estimate they will cover a thousand miles monthly for eighteen months. CASINO IN FRANCE. PARIS, March 8. Following the provision of street totalisatons, the Chamber of Deputies has decided to re-open the onee-fash-ionable English Casino seven miles from Paris, which was closed after the war. The present decision nullified a decree that prohibits casinos within seventy-five miles of the capital. CROWD INJURED. BY CHEMICAL SPRAY. TOKTO, Ala roll 9. There was an unpreeedened mishap in the aeroplane manoeuvres at Tokio yesterday. A smoke screen of liquid chemical failed to vaporise owing to the low temperature. It descended in a heavy spray upon dense crowds of onlookers, injuring their faces and clothing. The authorities have issued a statement explaining the mishap, and promising 4 tovcompensate the sufferers.