GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1931, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

KAYE DON AFTER SPEED RECORD. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, April 23. The “Daily Mail” says Kaye Don Is already preparing to attack the land speed record in the Silver Bullet, either at Daytona or New Zealand, early in 1932. SPA NISH ELECT 10 NS. MADRID, April ,23. Cabinet lias fixed the Parliamentary elections lor 2nd. June. A FRENCH CRIMINAL, LONDON, April 23. Guerin who became famous; in 1903 by escaping from Devil’s Island, was sentenced to three years penal service in Loudon for receiving travellers cheques and uttering two. Guerin who is aged seventy seemed stunned by the sentence and protested his innocence. PROPOSAL R EJEC'TED. (Received this chtv at 10.30 a.ui.) PRAGUE. April 23. M. Renos practically rejected the Austro-German Customs union advanced proposals for reconstructions in central Europe in order to avoid further “suicidal competition tantamount to economic war.” Elaborating M. Briands vaguer proposals he added that Czecho-Slovakia was in complete accordance with France, Roumania, Poland and Jugo Slavia in believing the Zollverein infringed Austria’s onligations and it would reduce Austriau-Czecho-Slovakian trade. Industrial countries should join action with England. Holland and Belgium, and seek relief for agrarian countries hv preferential tariffs for agrarian surplus wheat. Central European transport should be improved, while stabilising tariffs, lowering customs walls. industrial wages and shortening working hours in order to decrease unemployment.