CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 April 1937, Page 7

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

JAPANESE APPOINTMENTS

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TOKIO, April 27.

Mr. Eiji Amau, Director of the Intelligence Bureau at the Foreign Office, announced his own appointment as Minister to Switzerland, ..together with the position of chief of the Japanese Government Bureau of International Conference Affairs. His successor as spokesman of the Government will be Mr. Tatsuo Kawai, hitherto Consul-General at Shanghai.

Mr. Kuramatsu Murai, formerly Con-sul-General at Sydney, will become Minister to Siam.

LONDON BUSMEN

RUGBY, April 27.

Hopes of a settlement in the London busmen’s dispute cn ih? subject of a 71 hours’ working tiny are considered to have improved lasi night after discussions in which both sides were brought together by the invitation of the Minister for Labour (Mr. Ernest Brown). The newspapers state that the Ministry suggested a public inquiry into all the circumstances of the dispute. MRS SIMPSON. LONDON, April 28. The “Central News” understands that the application of Mrs Simpson for a. decree absolute will be made in the Divorce Court,, on May 5. INDIAN CONGRESS. • ALLAHABAD, April 28. The Congress Working Committee passed a resolution that it is willing to accept office on condition that the Governors’ assurances are giyen that their special powers will not be used.