Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 840, 7 December 1929, Page 11

Cable Jottings

T RE AT M E X T OF A T ■ IE X S. —The conference at Paris regarding the equal treatment of foreigners ended abruptly without an agreement having been reached. The delegates suggest another conference in 1930. In the meantime the Governments v.'ill study the reports. OF MINISTER. The ; rugic suicide of Mr. Sadao Saburi. Japanese Minister to China, has seriously embarrassed the Japanese Government on account of most important negotiations over treaties that are landing. Mr Obata. formerly ambassador to Turkey, has been offered f he position of Minister at Peking, and has accepted. HHIX I ; l: V AC l' A TIOX—The last units of the British Army on the Rhine will reach home next \Ceek. The evacuation will practicaJly be com- • Thursday, when Lieut.General Sir William Tliwaites. the commanding officer, will leave with his •staff, after paying the necessary compliments. A small final party of details will leave on December 13. ST R IKE t X TOKYO. —The Tokyo transportation services axe crippled completely owing to a strike of tram and motor-bi s operatives, who are dissatisfied with a reduction in their yearly bonus, owing to the Government retrenchment policy. Agitators have h eon arrested. Owing to the extreme niei • . f : i< i m i i .ii lace, a com - Promise is believed to be inevitable.

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