NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 208, 17 August 1927, Page 6

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

CABLES IN BRIEF. Camara, leader of the attempted revolution in Portugal, has been deported to St. Thomas Island, off West Africa. “The Times’ ’’ Geneva correspondent states that the Soviet now announces that it will not attend the League transit conference on August 23 Turkey is sending delegates. The New Zealand office in London reports a steadily increasing number of inquiries by tourists from Britain and Europe. It anticipates that many will visit the Dominion in the summer. The “Daily Express’ ” Geneva correspondent states that important Italian military manoeuvres are progressing in the Alps in a theoretical war against Germany or Austria. Swiss newspapers are asking: What is Signor Mussolini’s object for the largest concentration since the war 0 A message received in New York from Youngstown. Ohio, states that Gladys Rov. aged 25. an aviatrix. who had planned a New York to Rome flight as a climax to a years stunt flying, died in hospital as a result of injuries received when she was struck bv a whirl:-- -’-speller at an aerodrome.

Chiang Kai-shek’s erstwhile armv is retreating in disorder from all fronts and concentrating on Chinkiang. a Yangstsze port. 60 miles from Nanking towards Shanghai, on the Nanking-Shanghai railway. Already 50,000 have arrived. There is apprehension among Nanking residents whether the citv will be defended or left to the ravages of undisciplined Southerners.

The United States Department of Commerce announces that in the fiscal year ending June 30. the United States export trade totalled 4986 million dollars. 4} per cent, greater than in 1926. Imports totalled 4253 millions. 4.7 per cent less than in 1926. Gold imports exceeded exports bv 148 millions making the total net cold imports in the past six years 1213 millions. American underwriters floated 1319 million dollars in foreign securities. There are also 330 million dollars in American and foreign investments of other kinds.

At the Lausanne Congress, the Bishop of Gloucester criticised America for having too many rival religious bodies, whose doctrines were narrowly separated. He urged the creation of an organised territorial ministry in America, giving religious ministrations available to everyone. Aulluding to Mexico, he condemned the Protestant churches of one country joining with an anti-clerical State to prohibit Roman Catholic schools. Education freedom was essential to Christian liberty

The “Daily Mail” s ays the British Communist coffers, which hitherto were safely empty, are now secretly filled. Reds are clandestinely entering in England, preparing a campaign, directed from Moscow, to create another upheaval, concentrating in the coalfields at the end of the year. Soviet instructions reach London by special messengers The method of getting Red agents in is ingenious. A Britisher goes to rhe Continent on a special one-dav ticket, for which, for the benefit of holiday makers, no passport is required taking an extra ticket’and handing over the return half to a foreigner, whom he meets at Boulogne and other places. The Home Office is now devising new methods to shut out undesirables.