NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 26 September 1927, Page 7

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

CABLES IN BRIEF. Amid applause, the President of the League Assembly at Geneva announced that Germany had signed the Hague optional clause. Tchiteberin informed the League of Nations secretariat that the Soviet was not participating in the import and export conference. The Admiralty, in laying down the procedure in the navy for Armistice Day, points out that Britain celebrates it not as a day of national grief, but rather as a great occasion in national history.

Egmont Palace. Brussells, erected in 1548, housing priceless Dutch and Flemish pictures, caught fire. A later message states that the fire was extinguished and the art treasures intact. The building’s aesthetic value was unspoiled.

Believing his son was buried in the grave of the unknown soldier an elderly man climbed the Are de Triomphe in Paris while the Place de I'Etoile was crowded with legionaries and others. The man after paying homage, shouted and dived to earth and was killed instantly. Many in the horror-stricken crowd fainted.

Further allegations in 'connection with the British secret service were made at the spy trial at Leningrad. The prosecutor read the alleged statement of a British captain, Sidney George Biley, who subsequently was executed, to ’the effect 'that Britain keeps agents in every country except America, where the Embassy staff docs the espionage.

Described as the German Landri, Franz Begusat, when discovered, com mitted suicide by hanging from a tree. The police had been scouring the neighbourhood of Essen for Begusac, who is believed to be the man notieeu hiding a sack which was found to contain the legs and arms of a young girl. A search of his lodging revealed three chests filled with bloodstained clothing belonging to 13 women, whose bodies are believed to be burnt. /

Tho text has been issued of the treaty of friendship and good understanding between Great Britain and Hejaz and Nejd, and its dependencies, which was signed at Jeddah on May 20 and ratified there on September 17, together with Notes exchanged relative threto. The Clayton and Amir Eisai, son of the King of Hejaz and Nqjd.

‘ 1 Le Alatin's ’ ’ correspondent stales that in an interview Dr. Stresemann said: “1 am surprised at the sensation caused by President von Hindenburg’s speech. It contained nothing which myself or Dr. Marx have not previously said. President Hindenburg only expressed the opinion Held throughout Germany when he said we fought to defend ourselves, resenting as a serious wrong the doctrine attri buting to Germany sole responsibility for the war horrors. We cannot tow before a verdict in a case in which the plaintiffs are also the judges.