NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 283, 14 November 1929, Page 7

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

LATE CABLES IN BRIEF. Rugby Football.— ln the English Rugby County contest, the Eastern Counties beat Sussex by 29 to 9 and Middlesex beat Surrey by 28 to 0.

Windjammer Ashore: The famous windjammer Garthpool is ashore at Boavista, Cape Verd Islands. It is stated that there is no hope of salvage. All the crew were saved.

A Big Reward: “We are ready to give £l,OOO to anybody givinfc the name of the officer supplying details of the attempted assassination of Signor Mussolini on November 12,” says “Giornale d’ Italia,” categorically denying the report.

Officers Blamed: The Court in Capetown found the captain of the Hypatia, which was wrecked on October 29, guilty of a serious error of judgment, the chief officer guilty of culpable negligence and the second officer guilty of contributory negligence.

Treaty With Iraqs.— Pending the result of the Five Power inference, Mr Lunn, Under-Secretary for Colonies, announced in the House of Commons the intention of the Government to negotiate for a new treaty with the Government of Iraq, which should come into force when Iraq had been admitted to the League of Nations.

Submarine Officers and Men—Mr A. V. Alexander states in the House of Commons that arrangements were being made to equip all officers and men in the submarine with apparatus which would afford each individual member of the crew a fair chance of escaping from sunken submarines and reaching the surface.

Indian Politics: Interest has been created in political circles in India by the appointment of the Hon. S. B. Tambe, senior member of the Governor’s Executive Council, as acting Governor of the Ceneral Province. pending resumption of his office by Sir Montague Butler. This is the first time since Lord Sinha’s appointment as Governor of Behar Irissa in 1920 that an Indian has been given a provincial honour by the King of his own choice. It is likely that Mr. Tambe will subsequently be knighted.

Dead Sea Concessions: The Under Secretary for the Colonies was asked in the House of Representatives whether the draft agreement with Mr Novamesky for the Dead Sea concessions, whose aims were given in t! white paper issued three days before the dissolution of the Into Parliament, had now been ratified. Mr Lunn replied that the preliminary agreement was signed on the 22nd and the final draft of the concession was now under consideration.