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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 679, 12 April 1923, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLES.

For the first Linio for 260 years tlio London Gazette has delayed publication, owing io u labour dispute, which is an extension of the printing trades strike. The United States Government has refused permission for Madame Kalinin, wile of the Soviet Republic's ['resident, to outer the United Slate.-, because of the recent execution of Monsiguor Budkcvitch. .Madame Kalinin had planned an extensive lecture lour in the United States, the proceeds of which were to ho used for educational purposes in Russia. An application in England for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of Mr Art O'Brien, one oi those deported to Ireland, was discharged on the ground that the Home Secretary no longer had custody of the applicant. In the House of Commons, Mr 11. R. McNeill said he had no informal ion of any sort that would lead him to beliovo that the report of a revolution in Roumania was correct.

The British Postmaster-General has issued to the staff throughout the country a notice forbidding them to bet or gamble or participate In newspaper, football or racing competitions, even when oil' duty, under penalty of dismissal. An official o! the ;ni! tun,'n. eiviniseion comment:; that while Mr Neville _ Chamberlain is guarding the .morals of his staffs with great solicitude, betting and gambling circulars and money lenders' alluring invitations pass unchallenged through the post in thousands.

The Now York Times's Washington correspondent says ii is understood that ihe Federal Prohibition Commissioner, Mr llaynes, who is tared with the virtually impossible task of enforcing prohibition, will ask President Harding to authorise the i.-e of naval forces to combat the activities of the rum-smuggling fleet plying on the Atlantic coast and eidisl the aid ol various Government departments, notably. the Immigration Service and State Department, to co-operate in cheeking the Hood of illicit liquors into the United States.