LATE CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 18031, 27 July 1922, Page 7

LATE CABLES

Prcis Association—'Ey Telegraph—Copyright.

WIRELESS TO AUSTRALIA.

IMPERIAL BOARD RECOMMENDED

LONDON, July 25. (Received July 27, at 12.5 p.m.)

The Empire Press Union carried a resolution -welcoming the Government's decision to establish direct wireless communication with Australia, India, and South Africa, and expressing the hop© that it would speedily he carried into effect. In view of the urgent need for closer relationship between the peoples of the British Commonwealth, tho union is of opinion that representatives of the dominionfi concerned should participate in a comprehensive Empire system by tho formation of an Imperial Wireless Board. —Reuter.

STRENGTHENING MELANESIAN MISSION.

, LONDON, July 25. (Received July 27, at 12.5 p.m.) It is announced! that two assistant ushops will be appointed to carry on the A-ork of the Melanesian Mission in the Australian mandated territories.—Reuter.

FLOODS IK NEW SOUTH WALES.

TWO MEN DROWNED

SYDNEY, July 27. (Received July 27, at 12.5 p.m.)

Nearly seven inches of rain fell in Sydney during the storm. In some other districts it was much heavier. Washouts caused delays cm the railways, considerable damage being done. There were losses oS, stock in the country. Two men were drowned in attempting to cross flooded creeks.

TASMANIAN POLITICS.

SYDNEY, July 27. (Received July 27, at 12.5 p.m.)

Mr Blyth’s want-of-coufidence motion will probably bo.defeated, as the Labor Party is not likely to support it.

COMMONWEALTH BANK.

MELBOURNE, July 27. (Received* July 27, at 12.5 p.m.)

The foundation has been laid of the new Commonwealth Bank premises, which are estimated to cost £207,000. Starling ton years ago with a Treasury advance of £5,000. its savings bank balances now total £58,000,000.

MAJOR BLAKE'S DIFFICULTIES.

LONDON, July 26.

(Received July 27, at 1.30 p.m.)

Major Blake telegraphed from Quetta (British Baluchistan) “ During repairs to the machine at Sibi the heat was so intense that several workmen collapsed. We* are standing the temperature very well. On Tuesday morning wo left for Ambala (Punjab),' but all three petrol pumps gave out soon after starting. We landed and decided to proceed to Quetta. Wo made the journey over the mountains, pumping all the time to maintain tho petrol supply. Tho engine is now being overhauled. We hope to reach Ambala. on Thursday.”—A. and N.Z. Cable.

RUSH FOR BRITISH COAL

LONDON. July 26. (Received July 27, at 1.40 p.m.) Coal rose 5a per ton at Swansea to-day js the result of the demand from America. Anthracite coal is quoted at 65s per ton, which is a post-war record.—Reuter.

IRISH REBELS DEMORALISED.

DISSENSION IN RANKS

LONDON, July 26, (Received July 27, at 1.40 p.m.)

Dublin reports that the Nationalists continue to drive the Irregulars in the West, practically unopposed. The rebels are retreating so rapidly in some districts that it is impossible for the Nationalists to keep pace with them. The rebels are described as being a demoralised horde, lorn by mutiny and dissensions. One leader "is reported to have been executed it Charlestown (Mayo).—Reuter.

BAVARIA’S ATTITUDE.

BERLIN, July 26, (Received July 27, at 1.40 p.m.)

The Premier (Herr Lerchenfeld), in a speech in the Bavarian Diet, said that while he shared the abhorrence which was felt at the murder of Herr Rathenau, he regretted that the politicians in Berlin had enacted anti-democratic measures which tended towards class domination and the establishment of a centralised State, ruthlessly ignoring, ahe autonomy of the Federal States. Bavaria regarded this as an encroachment of Bavarian judicial rights. He admitted that the other Federal States did not support Bavaria’s objections, but he protested that tho atmospherojn Berlin was poisoned against Bavaria by persons in receipt of French pay. He concluded by saying that Bavaria’s resistance to the Reichstag’s measures did 1 not affect her loyalty to the empire. Tho Diet passed a vote of confidence in the Government.