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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4593, 20 May 1922, Page 3

LATEST CABLES

SECOND EDITION

Stab Office, 2.30 p.m,

SOME INTERESTING ITEMS. (By Electric Cable---Copyright.) (Aust.N.Z. Cable Association.) (Reuter.) (Received May 20, noon.) Paris, May 18. ■f* Franco lias instructed the French High Commissioner at Constantinople to co-operate witli his Anglo-italmn colleagues on a commission of enquiry mtu Turkish atrocities, but proposes sending a similar commission to Smyrna to investigate the alleged Greek misdeeds. Labuan, May 18. The Prince of Wales had a rather wonderful experience of the Wild Men of Borneo during his visit to Jesselton. Members of the native race were brought together from the jungle districts, forming a considerable gathering. A feature was the scurry racing, the principle being that the first that- gets home wins the prize—and no questions asked. The winner was requested to pose for his portrait before the camera, but was deeply offended, asking in Malay “Am I a woman that I am mocked at?” At the residency the Prince saw an exhibition of blow-pipe shooting by Dyaks. The proclivity of these folks for poisoned darts is notorious, so that as a precautionary measure every competitor had to consent to have his arm scratched with his own darts before being admitted to the grounds. London, May 19. The full text of the secret RussoGerman military convention lias been published by the Daily Mail. It reveals that the Germans undertake to supply the Bolsheviks with 500 German all-metal aeroplanes, which the Daily Mail declares are war machines of the most formidable character', and thus violating Article 170 of the Treaty of Versailles.