LATE CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 18627, 7 May 1924, Page 8

LATE CABLES

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

ISLAND PHOSPHATES

LONDON, May 6. (Received May 7, at 11.30 a.m.) Mr J. H. Thomas replied in the House of Commons 'to several questions regarding Nauru. Ho said that the output of phosphates from Nauru and Ocean Islands since Government control was 1,253,270 tons, of which Britain had received 32,300 tons, Australia 794,570 tons, and New Zealand 126,800 tons. The last shipment to Britain was in November, 1921. He said lie presumed that the price was able. The present price was los below that of the last British cargo.. _ The approximate price delivered in Britain was 5s per ton above the pre-war price. Mr Thomas added, regarding the allotment of 42 per cent, of the output to Britain, that it was impossible to give any guarantee concerning future adjustments between the three Governments concerned. —Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable. RUSSIAN EMBASSY RAID. BERLIN, May 6. (Received May 7, at, 11 a.m.) The German reply to M. Krestinski’s Note does not accept the reproach w’ith respect to disregard of the existing 'treaties or admit theillegnlity of the arrest of the employees of the Soviet Trade Delegation.—Reuter. NIGHT FLYING AFTER THEATRE SERVICES. LONDON, May 6. (Received May 7, at 11.30 a.m.) The Imperial Company at _Croydon_ is acquiring huge night-flying aerial sleeping oars for the- purpose of establishing an after-theatre service between London and Paris. This will enable parties to leave .Loudon late in the afternoon, dine and attend theatres in Paris, and return to London the same night. It will also enable the Parisians to do the same in respect to London theatres. Anglo-French business men will be able to return to their homes the same night after commercial dinners. The company realises that only by night flying and the carriage of midnight mails can the airways be made to pay.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.