GAS RESTRICTIONS

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2244, 27 June 1929, Page 5

GAS RESTRICTIONS

BTiLL SUSPENDED (Aust.’ and N.Z. Cable) (Received June 27, 10 a.m.) .Sydney, June 27. Tho gaw restrictions have again been svisponded until next Monday. PRINCE OF WALES MAY COME OUT AGAIN AT EMPIRE SERVICE HIS FRIEND ANDY RUSSELL DISARMAMENT POLICY (Aust. and N.Z. Gable) London, June 25. Although there is no official confirmation of tli© report that the Prince of Wales is going to Australia iii 1931, delegates to the ExService 'Conference express the opin.tori it is most probable. They point out that the next conference will be held in. Australia, which it is appropriate the Prince o! Wales should open, as well as the Sydney Harbour bridge. The PH/ico presided at (the exservitors’ banquet fit the Hotel Cecil. Americans present i included General Dawes. *

The Prince siaid the King' was disappointed that he was not able personally to receive the delegates, who now number 04, compared with 35 two years ago. He .paid tribute to those who had travelled so far and said: '“We did our best, in war time, now let us do our best for world peace.” .The Prince then turned to the conference President, Major-General Sir Andrew Russell, of New Zealand, and said: “Here Is my old friend, Andy Russell. When I visited Wellington, Andy fell in with Lis old comrades and I. had the pleasure of shaking hands with him as if he were just a private.” ."'Sir Andrew Russell appealed to art to foster a kinriiv snirih .throughout the world; through ex-servicemen. Lord Jdliqqo toasted the visitors and General Dawes chiefly. He said . “General Dawes per lor mod a great service* to America, also to mankind .Ex-seVv icemen want peace;, as L manifested hv lII© conference’s resolutions. Empire ex-servicemen are deTrous of linking up with the American -Legion. (Applause). General Dawes may wield • the naval disarmament axe, thus further hurting my brother officers, 1 am. most, anxious to impress this tact on the public, tha t though many Bi itisli naval officers have had their careers cut ofl', there has not been a, single word of complaint (prolonged cheers). They ,silently accepted whatever world leaflet's deemed best ior world peace.” Dawes received an ovation. He said: “America, learned! to know the Prince of Wales, not only as a Prince, hut as a prince among men. The world peace objective should he uppermost in the public mind. Tt is furthering the comradeship ideal, a-s opposed to force*, .as the- arbitoi between. nations. That expresses my chief instructions from the that expresses the Kellogg pact. (Cheers). Your American comrades agree, that sentiment expresses purposes which till ex-servicemen endorse, oven those who served against us.” QUICKLY CON.TR AD TOTED (Received June 27, 9.55 a an.) Lond,on, June 26. Tt is officially stated from York House that no preparations are being made for the Prinre of Wales to revisit. Australia in 1930,