General Cables

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 80, 3 April 1923, Page 6

General Cables

TURKISH ASSASSINATION. March 31. Angora advices state that Ah Chukni Boy, deputy for Trebizond, has been assassinated for political reasons. Chukri Bey has been missing for some days, and bis friends in the Assembly charged the Government with his murder, which they denied, but the disclosure of tho crime has badly shaken the Government.

COMMISSIONER’S TOUR. Sydney, April 2. Sir Mark Sheldon (formerly Australian Trade Commissioner in Amer-

ica) has returned from a -world tour. Eulogising tho work of the League of Nations, ho emphasises the necessity for Australia having direct representation. South Africa and New Zealand had been represented by delegates from Great Britain, but the result had not r oeen satisfactory. He added that it was too early fc> judge the effects of prohibition on the people of America, ami it would be wise to wait five years or more. The authorities were trying hard to atop boot-legging. FRENCH ANGLOPHOBIA. Paris, March 31. The Figaro publishes a further vituperative article by an anonymous writer, who us stated to be inspired by M. Poincare. The writer accuses Britain of securing the lion’s share from tho war, leaving nothihg for France. Lord H’Abemon is accused of encouraging German resistance as Britain fears a Franco-German alliance so much that she devoted all efforts to preventing Franca settling affairs with Germany direct. Germany’s resistance was regulated constantly according to the British Government’s attitude. The manoeuvre lasted four years, but cannot last for ever. BRITISH INDUSTRIAL STRIKE. London, March 31. A wide industrial struggle, due to decreased wages and unemployment, threatens. ' l! " .' The'Daily Mail states that exciting scenes in the fields arid in the farmyards mark the strike. Extra police have been drafted to some of the agricultural districts, ■ In one case the strikers unharnessed the horses from the carts and allowed the animals to stray. In other places they gathered round the fields where work was proceeding, blowing horns and rattling tins to frighten the horses. Intimidation is increasing. The farmers are carrying on with the help of old-age pensioners and schoolboys. / VICTORIAN MYSTERY -SOLVED. Melbourne, April 2. Officials are convinced that the mystery sdrroundlhg tti e sensational escape of a notorious convict named Frederick Clark from the Geelong gaol in 1889, has been solved. While prisoners were clearing the prison grounds they discovered a, large brass key, which proved to be a master key for every lock in the gaol at the time of Clarke’s escape. Clarke was transported to Van Dleman’s Land in 1847 and died at Geelong at the age of fifty-seven. He had a record of sentences totalling eighty-seven years for various crimes.

NEAR EAST PROPOSAL!?} London, April 1. The Allied reply to the Turkish counter proposals suggests a prompt resumption of negotiations. It accepts in principle the proposal to redraft the clauses relating to capitulations, with a view to securing the recognition to Turkey of the benefit of reciprocity as far as practicable. It refuses Turkey’s request to remove the economics clauses from the Treaty, but expresses the opinion that an agreement could be reached by mutual concessions.. . The reply also declares that the Allies Invited their nationals who acquired interests In Turkey to enter into negotiations directly with the Turkish Government, and, in the event of the negotiations resulting successfully, the Allies will not insist upon the insertion in the Treaty of their previously detailed provis•suor The reply further expresses the conviction that with equal goodwill on both sides, peace could be concluded without difficulty.