GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1924, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

BRITISH OIL INTERESTS. By Telegraph—Press Aaan.—Copyright. London, Jan. 29. The Government has decided not to eell its Anglo-Pensian oil shares. PALATINATE ABANDONED. Paris, Jan. 29. It is understood that the Government proposed to Britain that the question of the maintenance of order in the Palatinate and the security of French troops there should be submitted to a conference of the Ambassadors. The Temps admits that the Separatist efforts have all been fiascos and adds that the movement in the Palatinate apparently is to bp abandoned. MR. BRUCE IN FRANCE. Paris, Jan, 29. Mr. S. M. Bruce (Premier of Australia) laid a wreath on the tomb of the unknown warrior. He then went to Cannes. ROYAL JEWELS RETURNED. London, Jan. 20. A man entered a West End police station and produced a part of Prince George’s jewellery. The man stated that he had read about the robbery, but did not explain how he had come into possession of the jewellery. Scotland Yard officials believe that the restoration is due to the underworld’s tradition that robbing the Royal family is an abhorrent offence, derogatory to the thief, whose fellow criminals exert influence to secure restoration. A DEFENSIVE ALLIANCE. Rome, Jan. 28. Besides settling the Fiume question, the Italo-Jugo-Slav Treaty establishes a mutual defensive alliance in the event of invasion or a threatened invasion by another State or States. Provision also is made for common action in the event of an economic war being directed against either country.