To-Days Cables.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXI, Issue 19, 11 August 1920, Page 6

To-Days Cables.

•First Edition

The following appeared in oar SeoMid Edition of jest or day;—

CASE OF CAPTAIN YEATES. Press Copyright, Australian aud'NtZ. Cable Association. (Received 11.2 a.m.) London, August 9. .The Royal College of-,Surgeons, Ireland, after careful inquiry into the appeal of Yeatesi cabled July 17th, 1918, is of opinion that a. prima facie case of graver injustice had been es. tablished. Tho- college earnestly re- .: quests the Now Zealand 4 Government t 0 fully and 'impartially investigate the qjroums'tancea. A copy of tho: finding has been sent to the High Commissioner. Lord Milner 7 later replied that he had no power to give any direction, tho case being oilo ’entirely for, the New Zealand Government. i ■ / --■ MOUNT EVEREST. Press Association—Copyright, Australian ..and N-Z. Cable Association. (Received 10.15 a.m.) t -r ■ London, August 8. The stab-committee of the Royal Geographical Society ;in considering de- ' tails of the proposed expedition to attempt to scale Mount Everest via Tibet, anticipated that it would entail enormous/difficulties and take a couple of years. (Mount -Everest, in the Himalayas, is the highest measured peak in the world, being 29,002 feet.) BRITISH SY-ELECTION, Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 12.25 p.m.) London, August 8. The South Norfolk by-election resulted: G. Edwards (Labour) 8594; Batty (Coa’itionist-Liberal) 6476 J Roberts (Independent-Liberal) 3718. The vacancy is du© to Cozen BUC_|' cession to the peerage. LONDON’S FAMOUS STATUARY. : Press Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9,30 a.m.) London, August 8. The London Corporation has decided on thej abolition of the famous kingly statues, namely George the Third in Pall Mail and William the Fourth, and proposes to < erect new statues of Edward the Seventh in Trafalgar Square, KitcHenerand Roberts at tho War- Offieev~*nd«Hpi»het* m «fr , H!hc" - Admiralty. AMUNDSEN’S ARCTIC TASIC. • - . hi . 'V'_ * -j(i Jj Press; Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z/ Cable Association. (Received 9.80 a.m.) Nome, (Alaska), August. 8, Captain Amundsep Sajlecf qjt; Saturday. His proposed course is west of Wrangel reward the Siberian Islands, keeping’ in open water untij. a favourable place is found to strike directly north, probably in the vicinity' of the foundering of th© Jeannette. He hopes to gain two years by this means. The Jeannette was lost in drifting from Wrangel. to Jeannette Island. FRONTIER INIDAN EMIGRATE. (Received 12.10 p.m.) Delhi, August 9. Persistent reports are current of the exodus of emigrants frqm the frontier provinces ta Afghanistan, causing the latter much worry. Certain villages in the vicinity of Peshawar have emigrated en bloc, and Afghan reports state that they are feeding large numbers of travellers, which is proving li serious matter. There is good reason to believe that the authorities in Kabul are growing anxious, and are attempting to stop the movement, which jg large, ly due to tho preaching of priests in India.