Round the World

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 259, 3 December 1929, Page 2

Round the World

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

VARIOUS HAPPENINGS CABI.E ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Suicide By Cuiilotine. A convict undergoin^. fifteen years' servitude in the Sonneburg priaon and emploved in the workshop put his head under a paper cutting guillotine and switched on the current. He was decapitated. Coilapse Of Two Houses. Three months after ihe tenants' complaint to the Mayor of Marseilles about the dangerous condition of tlieir pvoperty, two liouses collapsed. Eighb hodies were recovered. including a mother and two infants Fivo liave not yet been found. It is expected tliey are dead. Elevcn were seriously injured. British Indiistrialists. Alncli interest is aronsed by an announcement that on Monday the Prime Minister will entertain at luncheon a representatire body of economist.s and connnercial experts. Several of the leading industrialists of the country have boen invited. The purpose of tlie Innclieon is to disouss the present and futnre prospects of British indnstry. Musicians Suffering. Heplving to a deputation from professiohal musicians wlio have lost their employment owing to the advent of talkieg and canned mnsio and wlio now are seeking special taxation of film organisations in order to create an unemployment funtl. the Prime Minister (Mr Scullin) said the Government viewed very seriously the. inroads made by canned music. The' Government certainlv was not going to allow America to take away tlie employment of this country. He suggested that the parties shoukl have a conference and try to solve the prnblem themselves, otherwise the Government would have to take a hand just as it was doing in regard to the tariff. Communists in Britain. Tlie eieventh partv congresg of the Communists of Great Bmain, consisting of less than 160 men and women, mostly under thirty, assembled at Leeds and listened to long speeclies denouncing.Mr iUacDonald and his colleagues as social Fascists and the allies of the capitalists, beating down British workers. Mr Harry Pollitt declared that the fight against organised trade unionism requived ruthless expulsion from the Communist-party. - Conciliatory sections were cviticised for lack of revolutionary propaganda • in Communist speeches and literature. The International was most dissatisfied with the charaeter of Communist leadersliip in Britain.