NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 216, 26 August 1927, Page 6

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

CABLES IN BRIEF.

The wholesale price of butter in Sydney has been increased by 4s 8d to 224 s per hundredweight.

The J. P. Morgan Company, New York, announce that the Australian loan bonds were oversubscribed and the books immediately closed.

‘‘The Times’ ” Constantinople correspondent says 400 houses were destroyed and 2000 people rendered homeless as a result ol lire in Scutari.

A long spell of cold and rainless weather in New South Wales continues unbroken with stiff frosts nightly. The want of rain is being seriously felt.

The Sydney city railway dispute was settled at a conference of the Industrial Commissioner and the parties to the dispute. The men resume work to-day.

King Fuad will probably return from France immediately to Cairo. He has recalled Sarwat Pasha from Switzerland where he is on holiday.

A temporary settlement was reached in the Sydney harbour bridge strike, the men having agreed to re-s-zrne work, alter which the company promised to consider the claims.

When President von Hindenburg celebrates his eightieth birthday on October 2, a number ol political prisoners sentenced 101 slandering mm will be released.

The council of the People’s Commissaries in Moscow decided to divest Chaliapin of the rank ol people s artist. It will be recalled that a similar report circulated in June last was denied by the lass agency.

Court physicians express confident predictions that within a week Japan will celebrate the announcement ol me announcement oi the burn ol an neir to the Ihrone. U/very prepara tion is being made tor the event, winch, ii experts predictions ar* correct, will be celebrated unpre cedentiahy throughout the nation ana will De broadcasted by radio.

Twenty-two railwaymen are uuw suspended at Innisxail lor refusing io handle guous consigned to anu irom the South Johnstone mill. A mass meeting oi iUOO railwaymen at Ipswich pledged themselves to support the suspended men. An attempt is being made to transfer railwaymen from Townsville and Cairns to Jnnisfall, but they refuse to go It is anticipated that they will also be suspended, in the Assembly the Premier announced that the Government was determined that the instructions of the Railway Commissioner must he carried out by the men. He added that persistence by the Railway Union in the present policy of defying those instructions will only bring disaster to all concerned.

A soldier settler Francis Wilkinson, aged 38, and his wife and child were round at their home at Stanhope. Victoria. The wife’s and child’s heads were battered with a hammer anu Wilkinson’s throat cut with a razor The man and the child were dead and the wile was taken to hospital in a critical condition it is believed an attempt was made to strangle Airs Wilkinson before she was battered with a hammer, as a cord was tightly drawn around her neck. Wilkinson suffered from nerves and it is stated that his wife recently told a neighbour he threatened to “end all this” presently.

At the annual meeting of the Empire Producers’ Association, Air Ben Morgan, presiding, said the outstanding fact of the year was the growth of the Empire consciousness that foreign nations were becoming more and more self-supporting and compelling Britain to seek markets in the oversea Empire and vice versa. The position regarding the marketing of Empire foodstuffs demanded urgent attention.

“The Times’ ” Berlin correspondent says the German press indignantly comments on the unveiling of the Dinant memorial, and resents the speeches of the Belgian Delenct Minister and French Pensions Minister, describing German soldiers in Dinant as criminal and barbarous. The press asserts that the memorial perpetrates hatred and lies. Some papers reiterate that the neu should secure a report for the purpose of proving that Franc Tireurs snot at German troops, provoking reprisals.

The “Evening Standard” says Ivan Khoniavko and Martin Dcltin, the departing Russian oil directors, asserted that they had devoted themselves exclusively while in Britain to

administering their business, without participating in political activities, proof of which was the Home Office’s continuous reneweal of their visas for a period of years. The Home Oilice’s present action reduced the six directors to four, burdening them with the task of administration, thereby not assisting in the development of Anglo-Russian business associations.

Giving evidence at an inquiry into the French forest tires a me brigade chief stated that he was cycling through a wood when he was attacked by two motorists, beaten and thrown into a ditch unconscious. A further outbreak devastated the lorest ol tiriguires. It is believed au Italian, whom the police are seeking, was responsible. It is reported from Toulon that two men arrested were caught red-handed setting fire to the forest at Petit Goudin at midnight.

At the annual meeting of the New South Wales Chamber oi Manufacturers, the president, referring to the burden of recent New South Walesl legislation said Mr. Lang’s promise to extend the child endowment scheme would ’ cost an additional £20,000,000 to the people of the State. Such an attempt would either result in the closing of factories or their removal to other parts, where saner views prevailed.

A serious Chino-Japanese clash occurred in the Penkifu coalmine, Communistically inspired, presenting impossible demands. Rioting resulted when they were refused and the miners attacked the Japanese management killing the chief engineer. The military and police battled for an hour, driving the rioters into the city. Half a million yen damage was caused. Twenty Japanese were wounded and four Chinese killed and 35 wounded.