TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18147, 9 August 1924, Page 12

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

— 0 LOCAL AND GENERAL, Shipping Disaster Feared. It is feared that the steamer Ripple has been lost, with all hands, on the East Coast, between Wellington and Napier, 2odget Debate. The debate on the Financial Statement in the House of Eepreseatatives concluded last night. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Soviet Treaties. The treaties between Great Britain and Eussia were to have been signed yesterday. There was no vote in the Commons. The effect of the main articles in indicated thid morning. Separations. Good progress has been made in the discussions with the Germans in London, and it is proposed to put the Dawes plan into execution from October sth. World Plights. The American airmen's next "stage will take them to Greenland. A new 'plane is being sent across for Lieutenant Wade. Murder of Mrs Evans. Sixty arrests have been made in. connexion with the murder. It is stated that the actual attack was the work of five of these prisoners, and that they acted under ordei3 from higher up. Davis Cnp. Japan is leading Canada, and the Australians are beating. Mexico in the Dvais Cup lawn tennis. Items. New South Wales cxpeets that this season's lambing will be a record. The Empire Exhibition is to re-open next year. Britain has bought land for military cemeteries in Germany.