LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 December 1923, Page 3

LATE MESSAGES

o LONDON, December 7. The “Times’s” Washington correspondente, commenting on President Coolidge’s message to Congress, says: The central point was the words “the main problems are domestic problems.” The apjplause with which the words were greeted told the story of the session in advance. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will be packed with men pledged to keep the United States out of Europe. The domestic problems are so many and so engrossing that all else must give way to them. Not one of the many Congressmen with whom the correspondent talked, believes there can be any change ill the situation within a predictable period. Scores of Americans who visited Europe, particularly Congressmen, have returned dismayed and convinced that aloofness will be part of wisdom. Europe must expect no help from Congress. The executive can do little without Congress, nor does the President intend, to do much.” LONDON, December 7. The voting strength of the parties is as follows: —Conservatives 1,982,000, Liberals 1,509,000, and Labour 1,904,000.

LONDON, December 7. The Free State loan has been oversubscribed.

LONDON, December 7. The 'Funes’s Paris correspondent, ■Uys: France’s war scars will soon be -obliterated. The restoration of devastated regions is nearing completion, and already in four areas twenty thousand out of 22.900 factories det roved or damaged by Germans have been reconstructed, and 2,912 thousand hectares of land restored to cultivation, representing eighty-eight per cent of the devastated agricultural districts. In addition 598,000 houses have been repaired. There remain 143,000 to he re-built, but the normal population -of liberated regions has already been restored.