GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1931, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

MOSCOW RIOTS. FIFTY REPORTED KILLED. united Press Association—-By Electrii Telegraph.—Copyright.)

LONDON, June 6. “The Times” Riga correspondent says:—Travellers from Moscow report serious strikes, bread riots, and street demonstrations lor the past week, with fifty killed and three hundred wounded in clashes with the Soviet mounted police. There have been wholesale arrests and deportations.

OBITUARY. LONDON, June 8. Obituary—Sir Frederics Milner M.P FRENCH LINER CRASHES.

DELHI L June 8

The French air orient line plane operating a fortnightly air service between Saigon and Paris crashed in a river near Sandowav, Burma. Three bodies presumed to be two pilots a nil a mechanic were recovered.

TRADE TREATY WITH AUSTRALIA. OTTAWA, June fi. Jt is undbrstod that Australia has notified MY Bennett, that she is ready to proceed with the trade treaty with Canada, which will be tabled in T":lrlianient at Canberra, and at Ottawa simultaneously, probably on Monday.

TRADE TREATY SIGNED CANADA AND AUSTRALIA. OTTAWA, June 7. The Canadian Prime Minister, Mr Bennett, is expected to explain the Canadian, trade agreement with Australia in the House of Commons on Monday. The agreement, was signed last week. the object, of a series of preferences for which ,it provides is to develop trade between the two countries without injuring the industries oi' either.