EARLIER CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14706, 5 June 1920, Page 6

EARLIER CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN. k I By Electhic tslkgeaph —Corvaium., (Per Press Association.) AMERICA'S LATEST BATTLESHIP. (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received June 4, an 11.45 p.m. . NEW YORK. June -1. The United States dreadnought Tennessee was launched to-day at Brooklyn navy yards. The battleship is 624 ft long and 97ft wide. She carrier 12 14m guns and 14 oin guns; also four antiaircraft guns. The cost of the vessel is stated to be 20,000,000 dollars. She is expected to join the -Pacific tieet oil Ist August. FLIGHTS. (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) ' Received. June 4. at 8.35 p.m. LONDON,. June 3. Aviation circles are astonished at the success of Captain Hinckler's Turin flight. They regard it as one of €ne most remarkable in the history of living, in view of the size of the aeroplane, which is only equipped with a" 33 li.p. engine. The newspaper Aeroplane says that Captain Hinckler is a very fine navigator. He invented o:ie of the cleverest speed ana drift indicators yet produced. He is also tin exceptional pilot, full of pluck and determination and unflagging cheerfulness. He has a line war record. He c.ime to England at his own expense and joined the Royal Naval Air Force. His service included anti-Zeppelin work and scouting on the French and Italian fronts. NEW BELGIAN TERRITORY IN AFRICA. (A. and N.Z. Cable Assn. and Renter.) Received Juilo 5, at 1.20 a.m. LONDON, June 2. M. Bassompierre, an official of the Belgian Foreign Office, and M. Lauwers, of the Colonial Department, arc now in London negotiating'with Lord Milner in regard to the ex-German territory in East Africa known ns Tanganyika. It has been arranged that the ex-German provinces of Runda and Urundi shall be included in the Belgian mandate, but certain transit problems have not yet been settled, including arrangements for transportation along a section of the railway between Tubora and tho coast at Dar-es-Salaam. EMPIRE CHANGED BY WAR. (A. and N.Z. Cable Assn. and Renter.) Received June 5. at 1.1-5 a.m. LONDON, June 3. General Smuts, interviewed by a Daily Chronicle correspondent, declared that, apart from the grave situation in Central and Eastern Europe, and the apparent impotence of the Leaeue of Nations, British statesmen should eivc attention to the constitutional position of the British Empire. Geographically the United Kingdom was an adjunct of Europe, but politically it was tho centre of a wcrld-wide Empire. The United Kingdom seemingly did Hot give attention to Hie fundmeutal constitutional changes brought about by the war in die British Commonwealth. Tho old pre-war British Empire was gone in the sense that it was a collection of colonies or subordinate nations clustering round one master nation. Unfortunately the old machinery still remained. Hp disputed Mr Bo'nar Law's contention thai Dominion home rule was tantamount to a separatist republic, asserting: "We are an organic union forming one whole, with the King as the connecting link. Dissolution would .be revolutionary. There must be complete equality and freedom enjoyed by the sister States united by the King, and only on that foundation will the British Commonwealth last-."