GENERAL CABLES.

Grey River Argus, 28 November 1927, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

LATEST TROTSKY RUMOUR. LONDON, November 23. The “ Daily Mail’s’’ Riga correspondent says: Trotsky is reportedly facing poverty. His wife has lost her position as chairwoman of the Scientific Department over which she has presided for several years. BALKANS DISPUTE. GENEVA, November 23. Hungary informed the League that the Council’s proposals for a solution of the dispute with Roumania were not acceptable. Hungary recently made fresh proposals, which Roumanian verbal intimations suggested would not lie successful. ITALO-ALBANIAN TREATY. ROME, November 24. It is semi-officially stated that the Italo—Albanian treaty and defensive alliance was signed on November 22, and will be registered with the

League. ROME, November 24. The It al o-Albanian Treaty is published. It consists of seven articles creating “ Twenty-one years unalterable alliance.” The most important clause is the fourth, which enacts that when conciliation is exhausted, each undertakes and places at the disposition of the other all its military ami financial resources. Letters exchanged define, that the military command and allied forces shall be Albanian, if the attack is against Albania, and Italian if against Italy. The treaty is regarded in Rome as Mussolini’s answer to the Franco-Jugo-Slav treaty. No doubt Italy prestige in the Balkans will be enhanced. Italy must now be con-' suited in any Balkan moves, and will I have a. positive ally at the rear of her I potential enemy, Jugo-Slavia. INVESTORS’ LOSSES. LONDON, November 23. i In the Commons. Mr A. M. Samuel told an inquirer it was out of the question for the Government to make advances of twenty per cent, of the face value of British business people’s investments in Russian securities, which the Soviet had repudiated, as the j loans would be repayable when the ' Russians recognised liability. Mr Buchanan: Are these investors receiving parish relief? There was no answer.

KILLED TO RELIEVE SUFFERING. LONDON, November 23. I Mrs D( Ivinge was committed for trial on a new charge of murdering her mother, in what is described as the I “right to kill” case. Sir Bernard Spilsbury and Doctor Newton both gave evidence that death was due to j the exhaustion succeeding an abdominal operation, but accelerated by ar- | sonic. Both added that the patient could not have recovered, anyhow, as ' there was sufficient cause for death I without the arsonic.

ANTI-FASCIST MOVEMENT. | LONDON, November 23. The “Daily News’s” Paris correspondent says: Mussolini, menaced by a wave of discontent, is conducting a ruthless campaign to crush all opposi-1 tion. He is iron-handedly suppressing ' strikes ami protest meetings, due to i lowering wages. Two thousand sus- j pected anti-Fascisti have been arrest - 1 ed in the past month. IRISH EX-SERVICE MEN’S CLAIMS. ; LONDON, November 23. ; In the Dail Eireann, President Cosgrave informed Captain Redmond that, the Government is establishing a Committee to. ascertain the nature of the claims of the Irish ex-service men against, the British Government, am! also the nature and extent of qill claims against the' Fr- e State regarding alleged discrimination in employment on Government works, or other- | wise. NAURU PHOSPHATES. LONDON. November 24. Following on a question in the Commons, Mr Baldwin sent for. Mr Mac- | Kinder, with whom ho had a lengthy l I discussion on the wool trade dispute. Mr Harold Briggs, M.P., addressing ; unionist agriculturalists, called atten-j tion to the failure of the Government; to take up a quota of the phosphates •from Nauru Ocean Island. No -phosphates had been shipped to Britain for six years. New Zealand and Australia wore not only taking their own percentages, but Australia was receiving the bulk of Britain’s. There was no reason why phosphates should not be forty shillings a ton here instead of 565.