GENERAL CABLES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXII, Issue 57, 5 May 1924, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES

AUSTRALIAN AVIATORS. Perth, May 4. Goble and Mclntyre, who are attempting to fly round Australia, were held up at Carnarvon owing to engine trouble. They are awaiting the arrival of a new engine from Fremantle. SOVIKT RE.ORGANISA'tION. Berlin, May 3. According to advices from Riga well •int'orined circles in Moscow •foreshadow the imminent re-orgaai-sation of the Soviet Government, whereby Trotsky will rep. l ace Dzerjinsky, bead of the Supreme Economic Council; who takes over the direction of the war department. FIRE CAUSES HEAVY DAMAGE. Sydney. May 4. A lire destroyed a block of shops at Taree, causing damage estimated at £25,000. The lire partially .destroyed the Paige Motor Company's premises, one of the biggest garages in the city, causing extensive damage, While inside the building two liremen were injured by a falling beam, and were sent to hospital SOUTH AFRICAN. ELECTIONS. Capetown 'May 3, According to advices from Salisbury the dual position is thai the Rhodesia Party has 25 seals and lb-; Independent;, /four. The lie previoaly mentioned has sli'.l lo ),■? ■ drawn.■ It is noteworthy that riot a single Laborite was elected. INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION. London May 3The lobbyist of the Daily Express states the Italian Government lias convened an international conference at Home '.for the loth inst. to .discuss migration. l The object of this apparently harmless conference is to strike .a shrewd blow at the League of ~ Nations'. The . subject should .have been discussed by the League's international labour office, but Signor'Mussolini has stepped in and cut the'ground from under the League's . feet... Forty-nine nations are- aFtenrlihg; the conference. MY T. Sliaw (British Labor Minister) has beon fully aware of the dilemma created, but decided thai Britain must participate. PEOPLE FOR NEW ZEALAND. London, May 2 Emigration to New Zealand during the past.three months has been the heaviest, since the war ami is continuing. Bricklayers, carpenters, masons, and plumber's are diifior.l* to obtain, but owing to the agricultural slump many skilled r ariii workers are applying! of which two hundred lire ready to sail. Batches are going by the' Suffolk on June 7, .the Cbrinthic , on Juuo VI, and the RiJAhinc on July :i. ?*a'.'h steamer is also taking forty domestics. The Jtqmuera, sailing on May 22. takes'twenty-five public re ■ boys and twenty-two boys under the sheepowners' scheme, . SOVIET-GERMAN BREAK. Berlin, May 3. The Soviet Ambassador has closed Ids offices and departed for Moscow, following the action of German police in raiding the headquarters of the Russian commercial delegation and arresting eight employees. The police have been searching for a man" employed by the delegation who previously escaped from arrest at Wurt'emburg. The German version of the affair alleges that a German communist prisoner induced his police escort to allow him to visit the Russian office, where he escaped with the conm-i vanee of the'.Russian employees.' The German GovT-riunent protested to the Russian embassy against the conduct of the Russians, the arresting police escort being held up for some time, contending that, the offices of the commercial delegation did not enjoy diplomatic immunity and characterising the conduct of the Russians as a gross violation of German law. A judicial enquiry has begun. CHURCH UNION. NEW BASiS SUGGESTED. ■New York. May I. A telegram from Philadelphia says that the Rev. J. G. Barry, of New York, addressing the Episcopal Convention, announced a plan whereby the Anglican Church might lit' re-united to Rome. Mr (sarry suggested that Rome should reco'jjiiise the validity of the Anglican ministry and its sacraments, whilst the Anglicans should reciprocally accept, the primacy of St. Peter" and the allocation of all jurisdiction to the Pope, also the recognition that the Pope's infallibility is not based on personality but upon the revelation of the'divine will, authenticated by the approval of the Church as a body. AMERICAN RUM RUNNERS. Washington, May .3. The programme for Checking rumru'mvng along the Atlantic seaboard is well under tray, and the. Treasury has turned its attention to the Can•Oinn . border. The personnel of the prohibition, Customs and constguards' aoents working between the Atlantic and the Pacific has been ordered to be nearly doubled. The coastguards' erews will attempt tn chock rum-rnnniiig by boats in lb" Great Lakes, and the Customs agents, will be responsible for all ports of entry, the rirnhibition forces attending to land smuggling. The officials believe thai th« traffic from Canada will ba greatly t;ur-

.LOAN FOB NJKW ZEALAND

London, May 2

11 is expected the New Zealand loan will be offered early next week.

The financial editor or th'j 3»Tt»rning Post says there is much interest in the impending New Zealand loan, for which a good response is probable, as New Zealand may be reckoned among the most popular borrowers.