CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 April 1935, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

EGYPT AND PALESTINE. (Press Assn. —Copyright.) RUGBY, April-18. Sir P. Cunliffe Lister said, in answer to a, question, that during a discussion with the Egyptian Trade Delegation in London, the possibility of promoting trade between Palestine, as well as other parts of the, Colonial Empire, and Egypt, was being kept in mind. He also had recently approved a proposal from the Palestine High Commissioner, that a Trade Delegation from Palestine should visit Egypt. He' hoped direct negotiations would be undertaken in the near future. POLICE DISMISSED. LONDON, April 18. The “Mail” says that sergeants and a constable have been dismissed from the London Police Force for accepting street bookmakers’ bribes. FRENCH SCHOONER. SUVA, April 18. Count Dugany, of the yacht Korrigane, was fined £ 2 for a breach of the quarantine regulations, for calling at Matuka before going to Suva. The Korrigane is sailing for Noumea this evening. SOUTH-WEST AFRICA. CAPE TOWN, April 18. Responding to a resolution of the South-West Africa Assembly, requesting the Union to administer the mandated territory as a fifth province, the Governor-General has appointed a Commission to inquire into the effectiveness of the existing form of government and to devise measures for securing more efficient administration and contentment among the inhabitants. AUSTRIAN SENTENCES. VIENNA, April 18. The trial of the Schutzbunders, as the sequel to the fighting between the Government forces and the Schutzbund in February, 1934, has resulted in Major Eiflei' and Captain Loew being sentenced to eighteen and fifteen years’ imprisonment respectively, others receiving sentences ranging from one to twelve years.

GERMAN DEFAULT. WASHINGTON, April 19. Secretary Hull announced that the United States Ambassador to Berlin delivered a protest to the German Foreign Office to-day ' against Germany’s failure to pay the two million dollars interest due to American holders of the Dawes bonds on April 15. BURMESE BOUNDARY. RUGBY, April 18. Notes will be exchanged to-day on behalf of the United Kingdom Government and the Government of India on the one side, and the Chinese Government on the- other, whereundei- the parties agree to set up a Boundary Commission to delineate the southern position of the Yunnan-Burmese frontier, referred to in the AngloChinese agreement of 1897. GLENCOE ESTATE. RUGBY, April 18. Glencoe estate in Scotland, covering 75 square miles, and famous as the scene of the massacre of the MacDonald clan in 1692, has been sold by Lord Strathcona. MAUNDY THURSDAY. RUGBY, April 18. The Duchess of York and her daughter, Princess Elizabeth, attended service at Westminster Abbey, to-day, when as is the custom on the Thursday before Easter. Maundy monev was distributed. It is one of the oldest of Royal charities.