GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 June 1928, Page 9

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

EMPIRE INSTITUTE. (Australian Press Assn—United Service.. (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, June 23. Mr. Baldwin, in a message to the Royal Empire Institute, in connection with its jubilee, cites it as anothea' example of Britain’s way of leaving to voluntary bodies such tasks as the dissemination of knowledge of the Empire, in which the Institute had achieved a record of which it had every reason to be proud. SERBIAN SHOOTINGS. ZAGREB, June 23. The bodies of Deputies Paul Raditch and Dr. Barraritchek (who were shot in the Chamber) have arrived here. They were met by a crowd of 30,000, but the ceremony passed off without incident. MEXICAN FIGHTING. MEXICO CITY, June 22. Ten Federal soldiers and twentytwo insurgents were killed on Wednesday in an eight-hour battle, near Las Uertas, in Jalisco State. Thirty Fedearl soldiers were wounded. BAPTIST CONFERENCE. TORONTO, June 23. Seven hundred delegates, representing sixty nations, with twelve million Communicants, have opened a world Baptist Alliance Conference, which will continue till June 29. This gathering celebrates the three hundredth anniversary of John Bunyan’s birth. EGYPTIAN CABINET. CAIRO, June 23. Premier Nahas Pasha has submitted to the King of Egypt the names of three new Ministers, all of whom are Wafdists.