VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 17792, 14 October 1921, Page 4

VARIOUS CABLES

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BRITISH POLITICAL PARTIES. LONDON, October 13. Lord Robert Cecil sent a letter to h!s constituents covering tlio same ground aa his letter to the Press. He says i “ Viscount Grey’s speech at'Berwick on Monday deserves to bo carefully weighed. No onn can doubt' that his criticism of tlio Government is well founded. It is not true that there is no alternative to tlio present Government. I cannot think of any Government Unit could be worse. What is wanted is high character, sober judgment, and freedom from party prejudice. I am prepared tn co-opcrato with Viscount Grey despite the fact that ho is a Liberal.”—A. and N.Z. Cable,

AMERICA’S UNKNOWN WARRIOR. LONDON. October 12. Mrs M'Cudden, mother of the airman V.C. winner, has been chosen to take the national wreath to the United States for the gravo of the American Unknown Warrior. T 1 ie journey is being made under the auspices of the Pilgrim Fathers’ Association. Tlio wreath is 6ft high, and consists of flowers representing the United Kingdom and the. Dominions. Mrs M'Cu-d----den’s husband served for thirty years in tho Ai my. She lost three sons, a son-in-law. and two nephews in tho war.—A. and N.Z. Cable. POPLAR COUNCILLORS. LONDON, October 12. The Poplar councillors, who have been released, assert that they have given no promise to levy rates. Directly the vvoirton were released From Holloway Gaol they motored to Ihixlon Prison to greet tho prisenc'-. As (ho women reached the prison they raised cooper., which were answered from inside. Then tlio men councillors appeared singing ‘ Tlio Red Flag.’—A. and N.Z. Cable. NOT mil'] TIME FOR BANQUETS. DUKE OF YORK’S DECISION. LONDON. October 12. The Sheffield couespondent of the ‘Daily Express ’ is impressed by tho Duke of Yolk’s reins'll to attend tlio Cutler Company’s banquet, to which he was invited ns chief guest. Tire Duke declares that lie is convinced it would not tie rigid, io be nre.sent at such a function while (honrarids of work less people are compulsorily hungry. Tho Duke will visit Sheffield on November 4, when there will be no feasting.—A. aiid N.Z. Cable, SIBERIAN MINES. SOVIET’S DIPOSSII;i. E CONDITIONS. LONDON, October 13. (Received October 14. at 12.10 a.m.) The 'Evening News’ stales that owing to the impossible conditions imposed, the Russo-Asiatic < 'on.-eilid.iled Corporation, Limited, -has abandoned tho negotiations with the Soviet to reopen its mining properties in Russia, covering 2.500,000 am os of gold, silver, copper, tin, ami platinum-bearing country. The mines aro in goni| condition. The Soviet unsuccessfully. a I'-ni pled to to !: (hen.—A. and N.Z. Cable. BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. REV. R. .1. CAMPBELL URGES REVISION. LONDON, October 13. The Rev. R. d. Campbell, speaking at the Church Congress, urged the advisability of diversions from (ho present toxin of the Prayer Book. He raid tin*, marriage, service contained much that might bo kdt oiii.. The burial service might bo almost entirely rewritten, m; it contained an almost. pagan nolo of mourning. The prayers for use at sea were scarcely usable except in. time of storm.—A. and N.Z. Cable.