CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19854, 15 February 1930, Page 8

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

GERMANY'S NAVY. (Received February 14th, 9.10 p.m.) BERLIN, February 13. Cabinet has decided not to seek an appropriation for the second of the pocket battleships. WORKERS DISMISSED. (Received February 14th, 8.55 p.m.) SYDNEY, February 14. Owing to financial stringency, 1500 men employed on railway construction works in various parts of the State have been dismissed. PASSENGERS BY THE ULIMAROA. (Received February 14th, 7.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, February 14. The Ulimaroa's passengers for Auckland include the party of South African farmers, which is making an Empire tour, also the Australian tennis team for New Zealand. AN OFFICIAL APPOINTMENT. BRISBANE, February 14. • Professor J. B. Brigden, economic adviser to the Australian Overseas Trans- I port Committee, has been appointed Director of the Bureau of Economics and Statistics, Queensland. BONES FROM BURIAL GROUND. LONDON, February 13. An investigation shows that the Southampton bones came from an ancient burial ground which has long since been covered by an hotel.

WIRELESS TELEPHONY TO AUSTRALIA. LONDON, February 13. It is now stated by a Post Office official that another month may see commercial wireless telephony between England and Australia. It is not expected that the few remaining difficulties will take long to smooth out. GENERAL DE RIVERA AT PARIS. PARIS, February 13. General Primo de Rivera (Marques de Estella), ex-Dictator of Spain, has arrived and is staying with friends. He refused to be interviewed,, but it is rumoured that he is here to fight a duel. [lt was stated in a cablegram on February 4th that the Duke of Almodovar had communicated with de Rivera demanding "reparation by arms" for insults offered six years ago.] ALLEGED SOVIET SPY. WARSAW, February 13. Lamboff was a Soviet police spy. He was ordered to return to Moscow to report upon the Russian colony in Paris, and travelled as far as Warsaw, where he was murdered or committed suicide. He was found with his throat cut. [lt was reported yesterday that Lamboff was formerly one of the missing General Koutepoff's most trusted chaffcurs.] A FRONTIER INCIDENT. I BUCHAREST, February 13. I Rumanian posts along the River Dniester, hearing the sound of oars at midnight, fired, and their fire was returned from the Russian bank. Meanwhile, a man who leaped from a boat was overtaken by the Rumanians and found to bo in possession of a large sum of money and important documents, examination of which resulted in the arrest of a high police official here suspected of espionage. Other important arrests are expected. GENERAL J. C. SMUTS. LONDON, February 13. General J. C. Smuts, ex-Prime Minisster of the Union of South Africa, states that before returning to Africa he is anxious to visit Australia. It is suggested that he might not be averse to succeeding Lord Stonehaven as Governor-General of Australia.

USE OF TITLE "DOCTOR."

VANCOUVER, February 13,

A Bill has been introduced in the Legislature by Dr. L. E. Borden to prohibit all except medical practitioners from using the title "doctor." The chiropractors have organised a plan to fight the Bill, and are supported by 200 throughout the Dominion.