NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 September 1927, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. BY CABIiB —BRESB ASSOCIATION— COtf i AI3HI PARIS, Sept-29. It is reliably forecasted that France will reject Kahovsky’s latest debt offer. ROME, Sept. 29. Hinehcliffe and Levine received an enthusiastic reception on their arrival here en route from England to India. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 28. Thirty-four rebellious Catholic fanatics were killed in a combat with Federal troops, and a priest was cap-; tured and executed in the State ol Jalisco. LONDON, Sept. 29. The Leicester City Club has paid the Nottingham County Club £33oq for the services of Leonard Barry the soccer international player. BELGRADE, Sept. 29. Milan Ziganovitch, who was implicated in the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo in 1914, died at Uskub, aged 40 years. Serbia refused Austria-Hungary’s demand for his extradition in the famous ultimatum. LONDON, Sept. 29. The Research Conference opening on October 4 includes 170 delegates from all parts of the Empire. It will discuss the combating of insect and other pests believed to be responsible for the destruction of one-fifth of the world’s crops yearly, and will also establish a staff'of better paid and co-ordinated Imperial research workers. BELGRADE, Sept. 29. Cabinet has decided.on sweeping economies, including the abolition of six Ministers, the re-organisation of the Civil Service and the sale or lease ,or State enterprises to private hands, oi semi-official but independent comparries. LONDON. Sept. 28. The “Dailv Mail’s” Riga correspondent states that an official Soviet despatch asserts that Eugene Chen _ has married Madame Sun-Yat-Sen, widow of the Chinese revolutionary. They will! spend their honeymoon in China, .starting a new revolution which the Red International has largely '.subsidised. (British Official Wireless). RUGBY. Sept. 23 Mr Citrine, general .secretary of the Trade Union Congress, was asked today whether any oomunicatiion had been received from the All-Russian Council of Trades Unions with regard, to the recent decision of thr? Trades Union Con stress to discontinue co-operation wi + h the Russian trade unions. , He replied that no communication ot any kind had been received from Russia.