LATE CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 18810, 8 December 1924, Page 8

LATE CABLES

Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. FRENCH COMMUNIST MOVEMENT. LONDON, December 7. (Received December 8, at 11.30 a.m.) The ‘ Weekly Dispatch’ says that the arrested Communists in Paris arc mostly Russians, acting officers of Red platoons | which have been organised throughout France. The Communists are reported to have installed three wireless transmitting studious near Baris, ready to issue _ instructions in the event of a revolution. | Further raids and arrests have been made 1 in Marseilles, Lyons, and Lille.—Sydney j ‘ Sup ’ Cable. THE GERMAN ELECTIONS. FRENCH OPINIONS. PARIS, December 7. (Received December 8. at 11.10 a.m.) The German elections include those for the occupied area. Although twenty-five parties have submitted lists, the contest will bo mainly between the groups supporting a Republic and those supporting ! a Monarchy. The results are not expecI ted to produce sensational changes. The I Monarchists, if victorious, will proceed slowly and constitutionally. They will probably put forward one of the exKaiser’s popular sons (Prince Eitel or Prince August) ns a candidate for the Presidency when Herr Ebert's term expires) shortly. This will be the first step to the restoration of the monarchy.—Sydney ‘Sun’ Cable. SIR JOHN LUKE. LONDON, December 7. (Received December 8, at 11.20 a.m.) Sir John Luke, of Wellington, has arrived from his South African parliamentary tour. He is visiting his son, who is a post-graduate ■engineer, and he intends spending Christmas with his relatives in Cornwall. —Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable. DEATH OF SIGNOR CASTRO. NEW YORK, December 7. (Received December 8, at noon.) The death is announced at New Orleans of Signor Castro, the famous exiled dictator of Venezuela.—A. and N.Z. Gable. [Cypriano Castro, formerly President of Venezuela, was born in 1862, near San Antonio, Los Andes, of mixed Indian and South American blood. He was elected a .Senator, and supported President Palaceio, who was overthrown in 1892. Against President Andrade, in 1899, he kd a successful revolution, and on Andrade’s flight fie entered Caracas, and was elected provisional President, Tho following year he was elected full Preseident, and m 1906 was unanimously re-elected with the title lof Jkstaurador ae Venezuela. In 1908 he I went to Europe for a surgical operation, and the Vice-president, Gomez, assumed ' the Presidency. By a conciliatory policy Gomez restored good relations with the Powers, and Castro, seeking to return, found it impossible to land at any port in tho West Indies, or to effect an entrance into Venezuela through any South American country. He ultimately returned to Europe.] BERNARD SHAW AND THE SOVIET. THIRD INTERNATIONAL RIDICULED. LONDON, December 7. (Received December 8, at 1.40 p.m.) .Mr Bernard Shaw has given the ‘Daily Herald ’ exclusively a copy of a letter that he sent by request to the Moscow ; ‘ izvestia,’ Mr Shaw writes; “As the j economic will finally dominate the political situation, it is quite possible that the Soviet will ultimately get bettor terms, both in regard to commercial treaties and guaranteed loans, from the present Conservative Government than the Labor Government dared to offer, but the Soviet will do well to dissociate itself from the Third International. Tell Zinnvioff that he most choose definitely between serious statesmanship and kinematographie schoolboy nonsense. Ido not refer to the forged letter, but to the constitution of the ’third International. Its bourgeois idealism and childish inexperience of men and affairs have given a serious shock to the Soviet’s friends in England,”—A. and N.Z. Cable. (Received December 8, at 1.30 p.m.) Mr Shaw continued:—From the viewpoint of the English Socialists the Third Internationalists do not know the beginning of their business. The proposition that the world should take its orders from a handful of Russian novices - , who seem to gain their knowledge of modern Socialism from pamphlets by the liberal revolutionists of 1818 to 1870 ; make even Lord Curzon and Mr Churchill appeal to comparatively extreme Modernists. Until (Moscow learns to laugh at the Third International, and realises that wherever Socialism is a living force it has left Karl Marx as far behind as modern science has left Moses, there will be nothing but misunderstandings, and a dozen negligible cranks in Russia will correspond with the same number in England. Both are convinced that they are the proletariat. I sound this alarm because the Soviet must wake up to Western realities unless it wishes to become the main bulwark of capitalists and imperialism in Europe and America. Zinovieff and the Third International did not intend to wreck the English General Elections in the interests of capitalists, and thereby make the Sudan a present to tho British Empire and tho Nile a present to the Sudan Plantations Syndicate, but this is precisely what they did by this inopportune literary romancing, which it suits our governing classes to‘'pretend to take seriously.—A. and N.Z. Cable.