Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 888, 4 February 1930, Page 9

Cable Jottings

IM PERI Alj CONFERENCE. The Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. J. H. Scullin. announces that he will go to England in July or August to attend the Imperial Conference. ANTI-COD CRUSAPK. —The Riga correspondent of the London “Daily Mail” says the Soviet has closed the last four Lutheran churches at Leningrad. Five pastors have been arrested and sentenced, one to a Siberian prison camp, on charges of organising secret Sunday schools. British car production.—The British motor industry reports that the improvement in production is now 20 per cent, higher than in the same period of last year. Some lines are sven higher, notably light cars, but others are feeling the uncertainty arising out of the Budget possibilities. U'X DK R gQVfIiT RIJLK- —ln order to extend the socialisation of agriculture in Russia, a decree lias been issued legalising the expulsion of rich peasants nnd the confiscation of their Propery. The Commar.dei-in-Chief of ihe Red Army, P. Karanoff, announces that he will send 100,000 former officers and soldiers to live in villages this year, “to bring military devotion ®nd discipline to bear on the task of abolishing private faming.’*