CONDENSED CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 941, 13 February 1924, Page 3

CONDENSED CABLES.

The London Alorning Post’s correspondent. states that tho Hungarian Premier, Herr Bethlen, while speaking at Kaposvar, alluded to the possibility of a'democratic change in the constitution without the exclusion of kinglv | rule or tne two-chamber system. Ho added that in England ’ kingly rule was consistent with the broadest demoand why should that not be possible in Hungary. After, six months’ negotiations, tho joint committee of employers and operatives in England has announced it is impracticable to devise a scheme for the control of the cotton trade output that will be acoptable to all interests. It is understood the breakdown is due to the manufacturers’ opposition after the spinners and operatives had approved of a scheme. . .

The London Morning Post’s Vienna correspondent states that Austria’s de jure recognition of the Soviet is imminent.

Air Art O’Brien was brought from prison to attend the Irish deportees’ compensation tribunal, from which he claims £BOOO for wrongful arrest and imprisonment (states a London message). He declared that the late Go-, vernment had manufactured a plot which had never existed and the whole business was a frame-up, in order to gain public support for an outrageous act.

The London Daily Telegraph’s Athens representative says that tho Premier, in outlining the new Government’s policy in the Assembly, said although the Government believed the dynasty’s return was unthinkable and 'full of the greatest dangers, nevertheless it would submit to tiie people’s free decision, both on tiie question of regime and dynasty as only thus would the solution bo lasting and final. Air Carter tested the possibility of lifting the lid of the sarcophagus by raising it an inch (states a Luxor message). Some archaeologists believe there will be a nest of mummy cases within so that Tutankhamen is ItLeJy to bo concealed for some time.

At the Nice tennis tournament final. Mdlle Lenglen defeated Airs Shepherd Barron, 6—o, 6—J.

in giving evidence at tho inquiry into the Redding pit disaster in September, Air Collier, the manager, said he found 35 feet of road which some of the 35 men who perished had cut with their hands as they had no tools available. The bodies of 11 men were found at a spot to which they had fought their way and sat down and died when they found there was no further possibility of escape.