VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 17696, 24 June 1921, Page 4

VARIOUS CABLES

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. DISARMAMENT PROPOSALS. NEW YORK, June 22. (Received June 24, at 9.15 a.m.) The Now York ‘ Tribune’s ’ Washington correspondent slates flatly that President Harding will not call a disarmament conference until there is a thorough understanding or a very definite agreement made between the representatives of Britain, Japan, and America. This attitude is taken despite the Administration’s satisfaction with Mr Lloyd George's statement that Britain as anxious for a disarmament move.—A. and N.Z. Cable. NEW YORK, June 23. (Received Juno 24. at 9.35 a.m.) According to a Washington message, a committee bearing a petition signed by 20,503 clergymen, Protestants, Catholics, and Jews, called on President Harding, urging that the time is ripe for calling a disarmament conference. President Harding .answered that he favored tho principle, but it was impossible to move swiftly. America’s stops depend on tho attitude of other Governments.-—A. ami N.Z. Cable. AMERICAN LABOR CONFERENCE. DENVER. June 22. The American Federation of Labor Conference placed on record a declaration favoring the total exclusion of Japanese and other Orientals from America. It instructed its executive council to prevent any modification of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and to work for the repeal of tho “gentleman’s agrectrvcnt” with Japan on the ground that Japan outwitted the laws. —A. and N.Z. Cable. THE PRINCE OF WALES. LONDON, June 23. (Received June 24, at 9.10 a.m.) Numerous birthday congratulations from all parts of the Empire reached the Prince of Wales, including greetings from Australian, ‘ New Zealand, Canadian, and South African children.—A. and N.Z. Cable. COMMONWEALTH SHIPPING LINE. LONDON, Juno 22. Mr Larkin has resigned the managership of the Commonwealth Shipping Line, and will sever his connection with, it at the end of this month. Mr Larkin denies the Melbourne rumor that there has been dissension between himself and Mr Hughes.—A. and N.Z. Cable. CHURCH UNION. LONDON, Juno 22. In the House of Commons Mr R. Munro moved, tho second reading of the Church of Scotland Bill, which aims at union in order to terminate .ecclesiastical rivalry. Ho said tho present system was deplorable and tended to retard and frustrate Christian progress. It involved waste and dissipation of energy. The committee would examine and report on endowments and temporalities. A condition precedent to tho solution of the endowments question was the disposal of a preliminary question 'declaratory of tho legality of the constitution of tho Clnvch. Messrs A. M'Callum, Scott, and J. M. Hodge opposed tho motion, and Mr Balfour supported it. Tho second reading was carried without division.—A. and N.Z. Cable. GOLD FROM AUSTRALIA. NEW YORK, June 23. (Received June 24, at 10.50 a.m.) Tho National City Bank has announced that 350,000 dollars in gold is expected to arrive from Australia at the end of next month,—A. and N.Z. Cable.