NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 September 1927, Page 3

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

CABLES IN BRIEF. The Commonwealth weather bureau has received advices that the long drought iu a great section of the Queensland sheep country was broken by heavy rains, which are still falling.

The Royal Agricultural Society’s inaugural spring fair was opened yesterday at Canberra, Australia. The principal features were exhibits of horses, -fruit and women’s industries, with jumping and wood chopping contest.

Extraordinary precautions ure bc.ug taken to guard Mihail, the child King of Rumania, from an epidemic of infantile paralysis sweeping a wide area in Europe. Ho is examined daily by the Court physicians, who are also paying special attention to iiis food and exercise.

The “Deutsche Zeitung” dales that the time is ripe for Germany to protest against charges of war guilt made at Geneva. Dr. Marx and Dr. Stresemann should demand that France and Belgium should apologise for the speeches of M. Bathou aud M. Jaspar. The “Berliner Tageblatt” states that neither M. Barthou nor M. Jaspar are justified in posing as accusers, since Belgium refuses an impartial court of investigation.

Tho Australian and New Zealand Press Association’s correspondent at Geneva says M. Briand and Dr. Stresemann had a most cordial interview in the public lobby, apparently for the purpose of removing any unfortunate impressions in France due to President von Hindenburg’s Tannenburg speech. The meeting of Dr. Stresemann and M. de Brouchere regarding M. Jaspar’s speech was less successful, Germany refusing to postpone the request for an inquiry into the alleged German atrocities in Belgium.

“What’s it all about?” asked bewildered Londoners in the vicnity of Victoria station, when a major domo, resplendent in scarlet, with bright blue braid, and a hat taller than tha't of the Mad Hatter, led a curiously attired army of 140 from the statoin amidst a blare of trumpets. They were American logionari'7

Admiral Scheer, in an article in the “Fortnightly Review,” replying to Admiral Harper’s report on Jutland, declares: “The British failure to destroy the German fleet, was the result of the Admiralty’s policy of accomplishing the destruction of the enemy by economic blockade. Hence Lord •Tollicoe stood face to face with a task which diverged from his general strategic, duty, hut for the moment he had a possibility of anihilating the German fleet by a preponderance of ships. His adherence to the policy of avoiding losses became a fallacy. Instead of another glorious first of June. England was obliged to incur the great danger of tho U boat campaign, from the consequences of which she was released only by the intervention of America. H was America who harvested the success of Mav 31 1916. That is the truth about Jutland.”