NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 46, 6 February 1928, Page 8

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

CABLES IN BRIEF. Wild Rumours in Athens: The garrison at Athens is confined to barracks. There are the wildest reports regarding military disaffection current, but they are not confirmed. A Royalist newspaper has published an alarmist supplement. Murder of Constable: The “News of the World’’ states that two men will be charged on Monday with the murder oi Constable Gutteridge. Canadian Loan Proposed: In view of the easy condition of the money market, the Canadian Minister of Finance, Mr. Robb, will asa Parliament lor power to borrow half a billion dollars to meet maturing Canadian obligations and to purchase and withdraw from circulation Canadian securities. Reparations & War Debts: Mr. Kellogg, U.S, Secretary of State, expressed surprise at M. Briand’s statement that the questions of reparation and war debts might be the subject of an international conference this year. He declared that no such suggestion had been made to the United States. Trade Treaty: “Canadians in Australia find difficulty m convincing Australia that Canada has not treated the treaty as a scrap of paper,’’ said Mr. J. H. McDonald, a manufacturer, who has just returned to Vancouver from Australia, in an address to the Board of Trade. H e considers the loss of preference on Canadian lumber is due to the imposition of the dumping duty on butter from Australia, and declared the criticism of the Canadian policy to be well founded If Canada traded with Australia on the same basis per capita as with New Zealand. Canada would sell goods worth 85.000,000 dollars Soviet’s Big Decision: The Soviet is about to abolish the state monopoly in foreign trade, and permit private concerns to import and export goods. This is regarded as a momentous decision, amounting to a recantation of one of Lenin’s cardinal doctrones. It is recalled that Trotsky accused the Stalinites of surrendering vital Communist principles. This was indignantly denied, but faced with a serious financial position Stalin has apparently surrendered to the inevitable. Equality Status: Attacking Canada’s equality status and dragging Australia into the debate, Mr. C. 11. Chen. Conservative member for St. Lawrence and St. George’s, in the House of Representatives said it lias been laid down by the Privy Council that the Parliament of Australia and the Parliament of ’Canada have not the jurisdictoin of Mexico or Patagonia. or of any power from Libena downwards to Monaco, namely that or bringing home and punishing uy Australian or Canadian law citizens guilty of crime beyond the confines ol their states Another Tragedy at Bundaberg: In response to a telephone message, James Iximex went to the hum his friend, Lewis Holden Maynard, aged 67, at Bundaberg, Queensland. When he arrived there Maynard said: “I have just shot my wife, and I am going to shoot myself. Watch.” Maynard then placed the pistol to his mouth, fatally shooting himself. Lomex informed the police who found the dead body of Maynard and his wife Alice, aged 55. on the floor with bullet wounds in the head. Maynard, who at one time was Mayor of Bundaberg. had been in indifferent health for some time.