OVERSEA NEWS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 19, 6 January 1930, Page 7

OVERSEA NEWS

CABLES IN BRIEF Singapore Naval Base, The Navy League has handed the Rt. Hon. Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, the New Zealand branches’ cabled protest against the delay of the Singapore base. New Oil Wells: Moscow reports the discovery of 28 oil wells in the transCaucasian steppes. The Soviet has handed them over for working by a Russian petrol firm. The chairman believes the discovery will revolutionise the world’s petrol market. Bodies of Airmen Found: Fishermen at Baia (Italy) drawing in nets discovered in them the bodies of two airmen, but they were so decomposed that identification hue not yet been possible. A Marriage Failure: Pauline Barker, the American girl who dramatically married the French aviator Jean Assolant a few days before his Atlantic flight in June, is now suing for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty and infidelity. Intoxication and Theft: A New London (Connecticut) message states that 21 coastguardsmell were courtniartialled on charges of intoxication and the theft of liquors from the Flor del Mar after the rum-runner was captured last month. State-owned Ships: Though during post-war years several countries, including Australia, have abandoned the experiment of State-owned ships, a Barcelona message says that a State decree has been issued creating a State-controlled company in order to take over the shipping lines of all Spanish possessions. Bonus for Employees: The J. P. Morgan company, New York, has announced that each of their thousand employees will receive a bonus equivalent to a year’s salary in 1929. The sum total is 3,000,000 dollars. French Anti-Fascist Plot: The police have made a fourth arrest in connection with the anti-Fascist plot at Marseilles, taking into custody an Italian journalist named Fernando Schiavette. The police searched his house, finding Di Rosa's home address. Simon Commission’s Report: The report of the Indian Statutory Commission under the chairmanship of Sir John Simon, which will make recommendations for reforms in the constitution of India, is expected to bo ready for publication in the early part of March. Industrial Unrest In Japan: An attempted dynamiting of an important power plant in Tokio by workmen who have been discharged on account of retrenchment was discovered and averted in the nick of time. A widespread increase of industrial unrest aud frequent sabotage is attributable to the repressing inlluence of Hamaguchi’s economy campaign. "England's American Policy”: “Pcrtinax,” writing in "L’Eclio de Paris,” refers to what he calls “England's American policy.” Ho expresses the opinion that the Entente Cordiale is now dead. "England has no desire for a special understanding towards France. The puritan spirit is at present uppermost. The only thing for France to do is to await the turn of the wheel.” Curtis Aviation Award: One of the results of the Curtis award for safety in the air has been the filing of a suit by the Handley-Page company charging an infringement of the slotted wing patents by the Curtis Company and asking for 300,000 dollars damages, and a countersuit by Curtis to-day for 100.000 dollars in an effort to “conserve its right.” It is moreover rumoured that HandleyPage may attempt to securo'an injunction against the granting of the safety prize. Daudet’s Intentions: “ThoTimes’ ” correspondent at Paris states that Daudet has lost no time in’ defining in his paper, “L’Action Francaise," his future attitude. He says: “I shall struggle more stoutly than ever. I find no ground for gratitude towards the Government for terminating a scandalous iniquity by ending my twenty-uiue months’ exile. My decision remains unchanged to seek the punishment of the police who murdered my son. I will hound down the servile criminal magistrates who rendered an unjust verdict, and as for M. Barthou and M. Poincare, we shall see.” New Year Message: Replying to King George’s New Year greeting, President Hoover has sent the following: “Happy to receive Your Majesty's message with New Yea: wishes. Resolve to advance world peace by mutual goodwill and by limitation of naval armaments is the earnest purpose of the American and British people and their Governments, and it is my hope, as it will be. the endeavour of the American Government to seo this great object attained during the year which has just commenced. I ulso desire to reciprocate Your Majesty’s good wishes.” Publisher Threatenad: Mr. G. P. Putnam, head of Putnam's publishing house in London and New York, was guarded by detectives when embarking on the Berengaria for New York as the outcome of a series of threats, purporting to come from Fascists in Paris, to tlie efiect that his lite would be endangered if he continued to public Francesco Nitti's story ol his escape from the Fascist prison island. One communication, signed “Fascists of Paris.” declared that tho organisation had already warned New York Fascists, who. despite the whole police force, would blow up tho publishing establishment. “Cunning Fascist vengeance will find you out wherever you hide.”