NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 6 October 1928, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF.

ITEMS' OF INTEREST. fUnit vr) Press Association —By Electric T“l('ltraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association! SHANGHAI, Oct. 4. A general postal strike in Shanghai, Nanking, Pekin, Tientsin, and a majority of-North China cities is threatened. The Shanghai men are already out, causing difficulty in handling the mails. LONDON, Oct. 1, The Soviet has worked out plans for re-confiscating 200 of the largest- dwelling houses in Moscow, which were restored to their owners in 1923, states the Riga correspondent of ‘ The Times” The newspapers explain that they were only restored to the owners to he repaired and because they yielded no profits. The situation has npw altered and the time has come for the Soviet, to re-seenre ownership. LONDON. Oct. 4. Plans have been completed for closer co-oneration between the Royal Dutch Shell. Anglo-Persian and Rural ah Oil Companies, reports the. "Evening Stand, ard.” The combined capital of the trio is at present worth four hundred milli'M's. The deal, which omits Rtnssia because it refused to recognise the rights of the companies whose properties were seized by the Soviet, will probablv he followed bv dearer petrol. BERLIN, Oct., 4. Democratic newspapers have' .been protesting against monarchical demonstrations among naval officers. Prince Henry called for “Three cheers for the Kaiser” at the opening of the yacht club and -all the officers cheered enthusiastically. The Minister of Defence, Herr Gro-ener, issued a- decree today ordering all members of the ReichsAvelir and the navy to quit any function at which the ex-Kaiser or any former ruling prince is toasted or arnti-Repub-lican demonstration is made. PARIS, Oct. 4. The abolition of the New Hebrides I condominium is advocated by Jean Lavcyric in an article in the Petit Journal. He points out that 4000 Tonkin labourers, 800 French and 350 British, mostly Australians, are employed, and commerce is divided proportionately. Do- j volopnvent. is thus retarded. M. La.veyrie suggests France should take the northern .group, which she has done I most to develop, and Britain the southern group.