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Grey River Argus, 24 August 1912, Page 2

CABLE NEWS BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

(By Electric TelegTaph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.)' FRENCH PREMIER' OV.ATIONED. PARIS., August 22. M. Poincaire (Premier), lias... returned from Russia and was received with ovations. He declared that the alliance between Russia and France had increased in vigour. There was nothing aggressive in the. peaceful grouping of the entente. ... CMMERCIAL. LONDON, August .22. , Wheat is steady, but there is more inquiry for cargoes for Liverpool. The Financial Times says the world's wheat crop is estimated at 468,827,000 quarters. The condi'.ion of the European is much inferior to 1911, rendering the mixture of foreign food stuffs absolutely essential: A RESIGNATION.' LONDON, August. 22. The Times says' Mr. Inchcape has resigned the chairmanship on tl"U' Traue Commission as he is unable to ieave England owing to. private business. Mr. Arnold Morley will probably succeed him. THE LAND QUESTION. LONDON, August 22. Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, speaking at Dalkeith, said that the Liberal blunders over the Insurance Bill will be repeated in the Land Reform Bill unless country returned a .bigger body of men who have studied the. question for years instead of men converted at the eleventh hour. ' The Labour Party's policy was that the unearned increment should belong to the community. He wanted a housing policy .with'smdill holdings, but it would be necessary tp first destroy the existing landlordism. TROUBLE IN NICARAGUA. NEW YORK, August 22. The State Department considers the conditions at Nicaragua sufficiently serious to warrant the despatch of 2,000 blue-jackets and marines to protect foreigners' lives and property. The cruiser California has been ordered to Panama^ and the transport Prairie ordered to embark 700 mariners for Colon. The ■'- blue-jackets _ will be railed across the Isthmus of Panama and embark aboard the California and leave promptly lor San Juan del Suir and Corintb. According to reports received by the State Department a detachment of, 5006 Nicrvraguan troops, defended the city of Leon unsuccessfully. The re-, bels besieged them, captured'the town and massacred the entire force of regulrrs, only seventy men escaping. The general conditions throughout', the country are chaotic. THE TRADE CONGRESS. LONDON, August 22. The Trade Union Congress opens at New port,-Wales, on September 2nd. There will be five hundred delegates, 1 representing two million members I with an increase of 340,000 since 1911.