GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 52, 29 January 1938, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON, Jan. 27. The engagement is announced of Alice, the daughter of the late Mr Francis Bowe. of Timaru, and Mrs Bowe, of Eastbourne, to Horn Donald Patrick Trevor Ogilvie-Grant, only son of Lord and Lady Strathspey. The Daily Telegraph’s Paris correspondent states that the Surete General states that it has unearthed a gang of twenty which manufactured and distributed false passports. Many arrests are expected. It is alleged that the murderer Weidmann obtained a passport from the gang. The Daily Telegraph’s Tokio correspondent states that Baron Ryoitsu Asada, speaking in the House of Peers, in the presence of a number of young women in the galleries, many'of whom were students in schools for brides, condemned birth-control and urged the trebling of the birthrate. He declared that birth-control in order to preserve bodily beauty must be patriotically discouraged. BARCELONA, Jan. 27. _ Captain Crone was aboard the ship Dover Abbey when ’planes raided the city. He ordered the crew ashore, himself remaining on the bridge. A bomb struck an adjacent Basque ship, the Guecho, shrapnel terribly wounding Captain Crone, who died in hospital. SYDNEY, Jan. 27. The Federal Cabinet has appointed a committee, consisting of Messrs T, Griffiths, C. Thomas and L. Thornton, to report on a new site for the capital of New; Guinea,.