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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10104, 23 March 1909, Page 1

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

[By Electeic Teleqeaph— Copyright.] (Per Peess Association.) Received March 22, at 9.55 p.m. ~ Paris, March 22. M. Clemenceau informed a strikers' deputation that the demand for the -dismissal of M. Simyan, Under-Secretary- for State, was inadmissible. That was a question solely for Parliament. lie strongly appealed to the strikers to resume work hi their own interest and: the general interest of the country. lie and M. Barthou promised, in the event of resumption, to consider tho grievances. A large meeting of strikers afterwards unanimously rejected the committee's proposal to resume, but- there are signs of a collapse. The telegraphists are gradually resuming, and the telephone and pneumatic postal'service is already working. London, March 22. Reuters Belgrade and Vienna messages show that, as a result of the Powers concerting in the projected arrangement, Baron von Aerenthal has postponed his answer to the Servian note, and a solution" is expected. It is reported at Peshawar that of several hundreds arrested at Jellalabad for plotting against the Ameer's life, batches are blown from guns daily. Calcutta, March 22. Obituary—The daughter of Sir G. S. Clarke, Governor of Bombay. Received March 22, at 10.30 a.m. London, March 22. Two Blue Books on the international naval conference have been issued. They include a declaration consisting of a- codi-, fieation of the laws of naval war, signed cm behalf of Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Hungary, and the Netherlands. Four other representatives at the conference decided to sign before June. The aim of the conference was to define the principles for the guidance of a proposed international prize court. Sir Edward Greys instructions to the British delegates were to preserve those legitimate rights of a belligerent which had heretofore proved essential for the successful assertion of British sea power to defend British independence. The Morning Post declares that legal experts and strategists will find those objects attained and-.JLhp_.work of the conference one of the mosf successful efforts of British diplomacy. Received March 23, at 1.5 a.m. London, March 22. The Times, dealing with the naval Blue Books, says on the. whole it. is not an unsatisfactory agreement, but no agreement has been reached regarding the merchantman's right, which Britain denies, to convert itself into a warship upon the high seas, nor whether nationality, or, as Britain contends, the domicile of the owner determines the character, whether neutral or an enemy, of his goods. The British delegates, reporting to Sir E. Grey, give grounds for hoping the Court will adopt the British view on the last-named point, but regarding the former there is no such hep-e.