CONDENSED CABLES

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 141, 19 May 1925, Page 11

CONDENSED CABLES

The Reichstag Budget Committee adopted tho Presidential estimates providing for an increase in the German President’s annual salary to 60,000 marks and expenses 120,000. Mr Timothy Siniddy, Minister representing the Irish Free State, stated in New York that international disarmament was neither probqble nor feasible, .but that the ideal of disarmament should not bo put into the discard. " The American Debt Funding Commission is advised that France, Italy, Belgium, Czechoslovakia and the United States would like to bring debt question to a solution promptly. Roiunania, Greece, Jugo-Slavia, Esthonia, and Latvia have also indicated that an adjustment is desired. Ernest Rhodes was found guilty of the murder of Grace Blackaller, who was found outside her home in London with her throat cut. Doctors were of the opinion that Rhodes was insane. The judge ordered his detention during His Majesty’s pleasure. The traffic in Arms conference at Geneva accepted the principle of the British amendment, permitting the licensed export of arms not intended for warfare. A sensation was caused in Cork, owing to ono thousand Federation troops, also Civic Guards, encircling a wide area and closely inspecting people and premises. It is rumoured the movement was connected with the shooting of unannod British soldiers in Queenstown two years ago. Twenty-five persons were arrested but subsequently released. The national executives of the engineering and other trades unions will confer on Wednesday to consider the employers’ proposals (state a London message). It is understood all the unions representing half a million workers, have instructed their representatives to decline the offer and refuse any compromise on hours and conditions, and at the same time to press for the unions’ original demands. Canada will be represented at the Dunedin Exhibition. Mr J. O. Turcett, of the Immigration Department., who designed the Canadian building at Wembley, will have charge of the exhibit at Dunedin.

Explosions in two press houses at the gunpowder works near Faversham, Kent, % England, killed three workmen and injured one. Hundreds hud providential escapes. An explosion occurred at a mine near Dortsmund (Germany). Most of the 500 employees succeeded in escaping. The Belgrade police announce the discovery of a conspiracy against the lives of the Serbian King and Minister, '[’he plotters had plans for blowing up tho Royal Palace, Parliament and other buildings. There were rumours current in London and Paris that Mr Austen Chamberlain wus likely to resign the Foreign Secretaryship, owing to continued divergencies of opinion in the Cabinet, but the truth of the story is emphatically denied. Martial law has been übolished throughout Spain, states a Madrid piessage.

Mr O. Nelson, the polo player who received a slight concussion as the result of a fall in Sydney on Saturday, is progressing favourably. A gang attacked a house occupied by Indians at Glasgow and drove them upstairs, fatally stabbing one and injuring others. They then stole a number of bales of silk. Nine were arrested.