NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 201, 9 August 1927, Page 6

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

CABLES IN BRIEF The Prince of Wales dedicated the new International Bridge between Port Erie and Buffalo on Sunday. The speakers included the Premier, Hie Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, and other prominent Canadians and Americans. Mr Baldwin, in the course of an. aduress said, ** Problems have a' is en and will arise and will vary as to how they should be solved. Only recently we had an instance of this .We have had to differ for the moment but we know in our hearts that this does not affect our friendship. ’ ’

The Congress of International Trade Unions in Baris ended with the extraordinary discomfiture of the Bri tish delegation. Mr Purcell, president early in the proceedings aroused intense irritation by a speech defending fhe Russian Soviets and paying a tribute to the boundless courage of the Russian workers in the teeth of the opposition of the world capitalists, adding teat the conquests of Russian 1 evolution must be defended. French and other delegates thereupon decided that Mr Purcell should not be re-elected on the executive committe, and instead, nominated -Mr Hicks as the British member. Mr Bicks was elected, Mr Purcell securing only one vote. AL Jouhaux was elected president, and in closing the proceedings he urged the British delegation to return with a saner com prehension of their interests.

The “Daily Chronicle’s” Paris correspondent says that M. Monmessin, the examining magistrate has forwar ded English friend of Miss May Dan lels. The papers will reach London in the ten days, when interest will be transferred tb Bow Street, where extradition proceedings will be heard.

In the presence of an enormous crowd the Premier of New doutb Wales, Mr Lang, dedicated the cenu taph in Martin Place, Sydney, to the memory of the war dead. The ceremony was most impressive. A square block of Moruya granite,»which is inscribed “To our glorious dead ” and “Lest we forget,” becomes a sacred monument for future generations to those who fell in the Great War. The ceremony, which was attended by the State Government and the Consular body, was very simple. Mr Lang, in his dedication speech, said these men believed their country was in danger and gave their lives to keep her free. Nothing the future historian could discover could embellish thoir uoble deed. Nothing that may bo found could diminisn the glory of their sacri flee.

At the Faith Congress at Lausanne, the Bishop of Gloucester (England) said the purpose of the reunion of the churches would be to accept as creed, firstly, the name Christ; secondly the Scriptures; thirdly, the truth of the Apostolic and nicene creeds. Bishop Manning (American Episcopal Church) regretted that the Roman Catholics were not represented. He acknowledged fuat church's good work and opined that it would not be real unity of christendom until it came in.

A mass meeting of the Amulgniated Engineers’ Union in Sydney endorsed the action of strikes in refusing to comply with the Arbitration Courts order and members pledged themselves to support, morally and flnancialljr any of them who were fined or imprisoned.