LATE CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 19024, 20 August 1925, Page 9

LATE CABLES

Press Association—By Telegraph—CopyrightTHE MACMILLAN EXPEDITION. MONTREAL, August 19. (Received August 20, at 1.35 -p.m.) Captain Mnc’.nilkin’s message describing the handicap imposed by the weather pointed out: ‘‘ We have been here at Etah for eighteen days. Two depots have been established only ninety miles from the ship’s base. Wc have thousands of miles to go in addition to establishing another advance station. Since this must be done in ten days we are not Masting time trying to do what is impossible this season, which has defeated all other expeditions.” Captain Maemillian paid the highest tribute to Byrd and the entire navy personnel for their excellent work in the face of insurmountable difficulties. —A. and N.Z. Cable. FRENCH WAR DEBTS. WASHINGTON, August 19. (Received August 20, at 1.30 p.m.) Mr A. W. Mellon (Secretary to the Treasury) has been advised that the French Debt Commission will leave about September 15 for the United Stales.—A. and N.Z. Cable. EXPLOSION ON STEAMER. TWENTY-NINE DEATHS. VANCOUVER, August 19. (Received August 20, at 9.15 a.ra.) The Newport casualties total twentynine dead, two missing, and fifty-two dangerously burned. At least fifteen arc expected to die. • The explosion occurred while the Mackinac was passing Newport training station late on Tuesday, and within a stone’s throw of the naval hospital; otherwise the casualty list would have been trebled. Naval rescue parties worked feverv to get the passengers off the boat. The accident mis caused by the giving way of a patch which was placed on the boiler just before the steamer left. —Reuter. BAN ON BRITISH SHIPS, CONCERN IN LONDON. LONDON, August 19, (Received August 20, at 10.35 a.m.) Authoritative circles in London are concerned over the of the Canton Government in banning the free movement of British ships to and from Oiincso ports, which obviously calls for some definite step on the part of Britain, as it constitutes a flagrant violation of the treaty rights of foreign Governments. The British Government will ruby and carefully ednsider the whole position before coming to a definite decision.—Reuter. EMPIRE GOODS. LONDON, August 19. (Received August 20, at 1.35 p.m.) The Imperial Economic Committee’s second report, dealing with meat, expresses the unanimous opinion that distinction between Empire and foreign imported supplies should henceforth bo compulsory. “ There is no effective practical moans of marking moat when it is sold in small portions to the consumer,” states the report. “ The whole carcasses, however, can he marked. Wo would place, on the retailer the responsibility of passing on the identification to the consumer.’.’

Referring to transportation, the report points nut that any programme for future Empire development which failed to recognise the importance of this handicap would only lead to disappointment.—A. and N.Z. Cable.