SECOND EDITION. Latest Cables

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 83, 13 August 1923, Page 6

SECOND EDITION. Latest Cables

Presi Association— Copyright. Aimtrtilian «pd N.Z. Cable Association. (Received loi3o a.m.) London, August 12. Tiraboschi, an Argentian, swam from Calais to Hover in tohrs 83 minute*, which" is a record. He strongly, all the way. According, to a telegram from iMsiSeldorf, a court-martial at Landau 'sentenced two directors of the Badisehe and Anilin Company, to sIS yearsr'for refusing to assist the French authorities in the seizure of dyestuffs. Rome, August 12. The Italian authorities at Trieste seized a steamer, about to leave ■-, Pola for Jugo-Slavia, laden with one million rifles, 3000 machine-guns, ami 24'.. mountain . batteries. The authorities, also, detained several persons, including a w?ll-kuown agitator in touch with the Communists. The arrestees state that they pursurplus materials from various military depots for three million life,.and were to, obtain ten million for. the stuff at Belgrade. y,f i ;u, ijqndQn,., Auguift 12. , ;. A Paper which ha* been issued, includes, the proposed identtJ S^ifiS^^'' wjbjipli Britain / lifted and submitted to, the Allies, \ /*s#•■which .France and!' Belgium rcfeeted.; Tts main pointsi were that ''!' l^ 1 Allies were disposed to think a ••<, poSrMVo 'advantage might accrue from an expert examination of Qer- ' many's capacity for payment; that such' a course could put Germany'* allegations of diminished, capacity to the test' of fact, and remove the excuse for evasion'. It also pointed out that the, economic value of Germany's guarantees must largely depend on the jfactors to which the German Note made no reference, such as the stabilisation of the mark ahdJ the balancing of the Budget. It h©; clear,/however, that no guarantee VOiild suffice unless accompanied by iime form of • international control w: financial administration; further, that antecedent to the reopening of the question of repara tipn payments the German, Government would-be well advised to put a stop- to passive resistance in the occupied territory.