NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 211, 20 August 1927, Page 7

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

CABLES IN BRIEF. Strikers at South Johnstone Sugar Mill (Queensland) decided, by 204 votes to 95, not to resume work. Wireless beacons for the assistance of navigation are now under construction by Trinity House at various point) around the English coast Their purpose is to send out distinctive wireless signals at regular intervals. enabling vessels fitted with wireless direction finders to take bearings on the beacon stations and accurately determine their positions. The Admiralty is replacing Jack’s regular lime juice ration with orange juice. “Oranges possess more bottled sunshine,” explains an official. “They are also cheaper and not so bulky. The Navv spends £9OiK) yearly on lime juice, which is heavily fortified with rum. The orange juice will not be fortified.”

Two deserting Soviet staff officers declare that, despite iron discipline, the Soviet Army is in a demoralised condition. Promotion is only <riven to Communists, causing deep dissatisfaction among the others, many of whom are sidinc with the opposition Soldiers are flogged for the slightest infringement of the regulations.

A oommunication has been received in London from the French Government regarding the reduction of the occupying forces in the Rhineland, which, in the British view, wss almost overdue. The text is secret, but it is gathered that it deals mainly with objections to London's idea ot a substantial reduction, which the Ambassadors’ Conference on November 14. 1926, undertook to make

“The Times’ ” Rma correspondent states that advices from Moscow report £1,000,000 damage and 20.000 homeless as a result of a storm and floods in the Vladivostock and Khabarovisk districts, which inundated hundreds of villages, also the towns of Nikolsk and Spassk. Three villages were completely obliterated. Torrential rains continue

The “Daily Mail” save the Labour Conference at Blackpool promises few thrills. All resolutions asking for the affiliation of Communists have been wiped out and local Labour parties persisting in nominating Communist delegates have been disaffiliated and therefore there will le fewer Communists than formerly. There is scarcely an item on the agenda on which the party is not definitely agreed.