CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 May 1936, Page 5

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

ANGLO-TURKISH FRIENDSHIP. ("press assn.—copyright.) ISTANBUL. April 30. Local authorities at Chanak warmly welcomed the cruisers Australia and Sydney. The Press exalts the AngloTurkish friendship, declaring it. was amply manifested by the laying of wreaths on the graves of the Allied and Turkish dead. LONDON, April 30. “The Times’s” Constantinople correspondent says: The crews of tl\‘ Sydney and Australia, visited the Gallipoli cemeteries, and met a Turkish delegation, and with them jointly placed wreaths' on the Turkish and British memorials. LAMB COMPETITION LONDON, April 30. Mr. J. Merrett. Sydney Metropolitan Meat. Commissioner, who is investigating Britain’s meat requirements, told the Associated Press that, despite Australian lamb comparing favourably with New Zealand, the latter was still more widely displayed. IRISH RAIDS DUBLIN, April 30. Detectives raided a number of houses at Cork and Waterford, and arrested twenty, including Sean McSwiney, brother of Terence McSwiney, under the Public Safety Act. AUTHOR’S DEATH. LONDON, April 30. A verdict, of guilty, but insane was returned against a book reviewer, Douglas Burton, 30, who was charged with murdering Douglas Bose, 21, author, during a party. It was stated, in evidence, that Burton, while in New Zealand, relinquished his ■ • tje ministry. The fatal <|iiarrcl between Burton and Bose was stated to have arisen after the latter had struck a woman. BUDGET SECRETS. » LONDON, April 30. Mr. Chamberlain is seeing the chairman of Lloyd’s again, in reference to the leakage of Budget secrets, and expects to make a statement in the Commons, early’ next week. Mr. Attlee, in the Commons’, said that the matter could not be allowed to drift. Labour members would ask for a debate, if an early statement were not made.

KING’S CRUISE. LONDON, April 30. The “Daily Mail” says that the King intends to visit the Mediterranean and the Riviera, in the course of a Summer holiday. It adds: It is known that the Royal yacht has been ordered to get ready for service. WORLD’S WHEAT. OTTAWA, April 30. A. commission to study the world wheat markets, and recommend the policy to deal with the problem of surpluses, will be named by the Government, according to an announcement by Mr. Euler, Minister of Trade and Commerce, after Mr. James Murray, Chairman of the Wheat Board, told a Commons Committee there was no use growing grain to pile up as a surplus.