Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 338, 25 April 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

POISON GAS BAN. —The Governments of Italy and Russia have ratified the League of Nations’ convention against the use of poison gas in warfare. —Australian Press Association. SIR H. DENISON HOME. —Sir Hugh Denison. formerly the Australian Trade Commissioner in the United States, is a passenger on the Chitral, which arrived at Fremantle yesterday. FAMINE IN INDIA. —As a result of the failure of last year's monsoon in the Bankura district, north-west of Calcutta, the country is in the grip of famine, and 70,000 agriculturists and weavers are affected. —United Service. BIG MIGRATION PLAN. —The West Australian Government proposes to establish 3,000 farms in the wheat belt, at a cost of £8,500,000. The scheme involves the construction of 700 miles of new railways. The money will be provided under the British migration agreement. BOMBAY STRIKES. —Disorder is spreading daily in Bombay. At pressent 50 cotton mills are closed, and nearly 70,000 workmen are on strike. Two of the strikers were killed when the police fired on them. Among the leaders of the strike is Bradley, who came to India to replace Spratt when Spratt. was arrested. —United Service. STRIKE IN AUSTRALIA. —A strike has occurred of the engineers at Lysaght Brothers’ wire netting works at Abbotsford, New South Wales. The strikers complain that the company has offered men staff positions without extra pay, thus rendering it necessary for the men to resign from their union, which course is designed to break the union. There are 23 men involved in the trouble, which is likely to extend. SHAKESPEARE THEATRE.—An appeal, signed by the Prime Minister. Mr. Baldwin, the Leader of the Labor; Party, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, Mr. Lloyd George, and other prominent men, has been issued on behalf of the fund* for rebuilding the Shakespeare Theatre at Sadler’s Wells, London, which has close associations with Shakespeare. Already £35,000 has been raised, but £70,000 is required.— British Wireless.