GENERAL CABLES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 14 June 1926, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES.

By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, June 11. M. Vesohaicy, editor of tho antiCommuniso Journal, “New Georgia,” was murdered by a Communist outside tho courts during the hearing of a case wherein Georgians were charged with assaulting Communists. Three shots were fired. lie died almost instantaneously. LONDON, June 11. ' The Navy League passed a resolution expressing grave apprehension at retaining obsolete cruisers, because of the erroneous impression that the Navy’s strength and also that Dominions’ ships should he excluded when compared with foreign navies. Sir Cyril Cobb eulogised the enthusiasm of the League’s New Zealand branches. ■ , GENEVA, Juno 11. Tile League Council adjourned consideration of the report of the Prepar atory Committee on Disarmament Commission until September. LONDON, June 10. Tho Rugby League ; s annual meeting at Leeds refused to lift the embargo on the importation of Australian phivers. LONDON, June 13. Tho Rc-clection of Ministers’ Bill, removing tho necessity for Ministers submitting i.lic'niselvos to peclcction on accepting or changing offices, was road a third time in tho House of Commons bv 183 votes to 84. NEW YORK, Juno 11.. News •from Fairbanks states that Captain Wilkins’s expedition left on Friday for the United States. LONDON, June 11. The offerings for the Victorian loan total £41,000,000. Applicants were allotted 7 per cent. CAPETOWN. June 11. The preliminary results of the Census of .the European population of the Union, taken in May, .show a total o! 1,672,106, an increase of 10. G per cent on the 1921 census.