CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 May 1934, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

CANADIAN BUDGET [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] « OTTAWA, May 15. The Budget passed the House tonight after a Progressive Party amendment was defeated by one hundred and fifty-seven to fourteen. One other Progressive amendment and two Liberal amendments had previously been ruled out of order by Speaker Black. S. AMERICAN DISPUTE LIMA, May 15. The Foreign Minister of Peru, Senor Polo, admitted to-night that an agreement had been reached on the Leticia dispute with Columbia. PALE.STI NE CLOUDBURST JERUSALEM, May 16. The second coludliurst at Tiberias completed the destruction of the city. There are live thousand homeless. Twenty-nine people have been drowned. Arrangements are being made for rationing the people. AVAR DEBTS. RUGBY, May 15. Answering various Parliamentary questions, the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated the question of the war debt was receiving the Government’s close attention, but he was not in a position at present to make any statement on the subject.

BRITAIN’S WOODLANDS

RUGBY, May 15. Sixteen thousand acres were added to the woodlands of Great Britain during the year which ended September 30 last. Nearly 52,000,000 trees were planted under the direction of the Forestry Commission. It is the aim of the Commissioners to acquire each year the same acreage of plantable land as that planted, so the area in wood shall remain nearly as possible intact. The total area now planted by the commissioners in 14 years is 232.711 acres. ROYAL TOURNAMENT. LONDON, May 16. Lord Hailsham, speaking at a luncheon at the Royal tournament rehearsal. suggested that the Dominions might be persuaded to send a contingent to the 1935 tournament, as it was_the King’s anniversary year. The tournament used to include Empire representatives, the last time being in 1908. CANADIAN’S S UICIDE LONDON, May 16. At the inquest on Norman Clapham (John Henry), a verdict was returned of suicide while of unsound mind. FINANCE BILD. LONDON, May 16. In the Commons, the Finance Bill was read a second time by 290 to 55 votes.

BRITISH ARRESTED BERLIN, May 1(1. Storm Troopers arrested Pembroke Stephens, the “Daily Express” correspondent, his wife, and his wife’s cousin, G. P. Reynolds, near Dessau. Stephens was motor-touring, in search ol details of Germany’s economic condition. The party was arrested after he inquired the reason for industrial activity' in the Aken forest. The police questioned the trio for several hours, and locked them in separate hotel rooms, under a guard. Eventually, tho.v handed them, over to the secret police at Madgeburg. The British Consul is investigating.