NEWS OF THE WORLD

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10686, 4 September 1920, Page 8

NEWS OF THE WORLD

GABLES IN BRIEF By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright According to a despatch from Tokio, Japan and tho United States, following the conferences between Mr Bainbridge Colby (Secretary for State) and the Japanese Ambassador in "Washington, have reached an. understanding regarding the Japanese problem in California, and it is expected that the solution will shortly be applied. A message from Buenos Aires states that two people were killed and fifteen were injured at Rosario by the police tiring into a crowd of trade unionists who "were protesting before the Court of Appeal against tho trial of two working men accused of killing a policeman during labour disorders. The expenses of Mr Justice Swing's inquiry regarding the Darwin Administration have been published. It is disclosed that the judge received £4630 as expenses. The Commonwealth Government has received from tho Imperial authorities the full toxt of the proposals for a wireless chain to link up the Empire, recommending valve stations in England, and at Cairo, Poona, Singapore, Hongkong, and Darwin or Perth. The capital cost is estimated.at £1,234,v«0. The Amateur Athletic Association has agreed to the request of the Australian and New Zealand Associations to take a mail vote on the question of substituting the Olympic programme for tho existing programme for Australasian meetings. A clause providing for three judges of the Arbitration Court, introduced in the Federal House of Representatives by Mr Groom, excited trenchant criticism from Labour and several members of the Government party, who suspected an indirect hit at Mr Justice Higgins. The clause was eventually carried by 24 votes to 17. The censure motion in the New South "Wales Assembly was defeated by 40 to 37. The "Channel swimmine season" has revived. Mrs Hamilton, who made the latest attempt, left St. Margaret's Bay. .The sea was calm, and there was no wind. Mrs Hamilton is a well-knoirn society woman, and a strict vegetarian, and frequently swims five miles before dinner. She holds a medal for swimming fifteen miles.

The congress of advertising men in Sydney decided to appoint a vigilance committee in each State to report at regular intervals, for the purpose of '"cleaning up" all advertising of a doubtful character. The committee is to work in conjunction with the police. Addresses were, delivered on utilising advertising for increasing Immigration, as an impulse to production, as a vehicle for distribution, and as a factor in industrial organisation. Mr Miller, secretary of the New South Wales Rugby League, commenting on the report of the sub-committee on the definition of amateur, said the three main points seemed to be that each amateur body should control its own affairs with the federation as the Court of Appeal; that amateurs should be allowed 5s a day expenses; and that each club should be under purely amateur control. Mr Coombes said he regarded the proposal as impracticable, though he saw_ no reason why amsvteur and professional athletes could not play together in football the same as in cricket and other Though the terms of the Franco-Bel-gian Defensive Military Treaty- have not been disclosed, it is understood that it provides for full mutual support against aggression, and settles the points on which the Belgian Army is to concentrate for battle. The ''New York Times" Pekin correspondent states that it is officially announced that the new Parliament will shortly ho called under tho old provisional constitution. It is understood that the Chino-Japanese military pact will be cancelled^. and that the Japanese instructors .in the frontier defence army will bo permitted to resign. The United States Federal Shipping Board has offered for sale to the highest bidder ninety-two steel freight steamers, varying from ■ 1000 to 9770 tons.

It is announced that the American woollen mills, which have_ been shul downswing to the inactivity of the trade, wil bo reopened on September 13th. A New York message states that the National Board of Farm Organisations at Columbus rejected a plan for the formation of a national wheat pool controlled by the farmers. It was pointed out that such a combination would be contrary to the Sherman antitrust law, and it would be wiser to market the products co-operatively. ' German manufacturers have agreed to supply Russia with one hundred locomotives. ' The Attorney-General for New South Wales announced that the Crown Law Department had instituted proceedings under the Lunacy. Act for a declaration thart Georgeson, who was mentioned in connection with the wheat inquiry, was incapable of managing his affairs.