CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 April 1934, Page 7

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

JAPANESE CRISIS ENDED.

[PRESS ASSN. —COPYEIGHT.] KOBE. April 15. The political crisis lias ended, the War Minister withdrawing his resignation, after an urgent plea by Prince Kanin and other military chiefs. NORMA TALMADGE’S DIVORCE. NEW YORK, April 13. An El Paso message states that Norma Talmadge, star of the silent cinema, has revealed that she has been granted a Mexican divorce from Joseph Schenck, the producer, on the grounds of incompatabiliy. — IRISH SENATE. DUBLIN, April 15. Mr. De Valera’s Bill to abolish the Irish Free State Senate provides no substitute. FOOD SHIPS HELD UP. COPENHAGEN, April 13. Food ships for Britain are held up owing to a dockers’ strike in sympathy / with the seamen's strike, which has been declared illegal. Two thousand tons of bacon and butter remain on the Esbjerg quays. LONDON, April 15. I Britain’s normal imports of Danish bacon and butter stopped completely in the week-end, owing to the strike. A Danish steamer arrived at Harwich, to-day, without an ounce of cargo. The vessel was entirely manned by officers. . , RODEOS PROHIBITED. LONDON, April 13. The House of Commons passed the second reading, without division, of a Bill introduced by Sir Robert Gower, chairman of the R.S.P.C.A., prohibiting rodeo exhibitions, which various speakers described as being as repugnant, cruel and degrading as any Spanish bull fight.

ALLEGED FALSE REPORTS.

NEW YORK, April 14.

A message from Cleveland states: — O. P. Van Sweringen, a railway magnate, and Joseph Nutt, a banker, and the former Treasurer of the National Republican Party, pleaded not guilty in Court to-day to an indictment of making false - reports on the financial condition of the Union Trust Coy., which is now bankrupt. The prosecution alleges that they engineered a 10,000,000 dollars “paper” transaction to make the institution appear solvent, and continued to receive deposits and to transact business when the concern was in an insolvent condition. UNEMPLOYMENT DECLINES. GENEVA, April 14. The International Labour Office statistics reveal a general decline in unemployment, with the exceptions of France, Belgium and Ireland. The , greatest improvements are those recorded in the United States and in Canada. ALBERTA GOVERNORSHIP. OTTAWA, April 14. A message from Edmonton states: With the Party lines broken, the Alberta Provincial Legislature on Friday night voted by 29 to 20, to request, the Dominion Government to make no further appointment when the present term of Lieutenant-Governor W. L. Walsh is completed in 1936. DEBT DEFAULTERS. WASHINGTON, April 13. President Roosevelt tb-day signed a bill prohibiting transactions with those foreign Governments defaulting in their debt obligations to the United States. TROTSKY IN FRANCE PARIS, April 15. Leon Trotsky, who was generally be-

lieved to be living in Corisica, was unexpectedly found in Barbizon, the famous artist’s villa near Fontainebleau.