MISCELLANEOUS CABLES,

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16987, 10 March 1923, Page 8

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES,

BERLIN, March 9. When broadcasting apparatus here be-gau sending out a statement regarding the Ruhr, and a patriotic song, the Eiffel Tower, using the same wave length, promptly jammed the message. The concert, which was broadcasted, was not interrupted till ‘' Deutschland Lber Alles ” was sung, when the Eiffel Tower again drowned the messages. LONDON, March 9. Mr Mitchell, London Secretary to the American Relief Administration, states that the mass feeding which they are carrying on in Russia will be continued till next harxest. Conditions and prices there have so much improved that it will be unnecessary to continue operations, at any rate after April. I ast summer the administration fed eleven million people daily, and medically tieated fifty millions aud equipped eleven thousand hospitals. At present three million adults and children are being fed daily. A Constantinople message reports that the Angora Note accepts all the clauses agreed upon at Lausanne, but does not accept the economic clauses. Jt proposes a conference i n a fortnight at Constantinople to draft and sign a treaty comprising the questions agreed upon. A iTee State Commandant, while visiting Mrs Powell, a sister of the late Michael Collins, in Cork, found that Irregtdars were in possession, and had saturated the house with petrol, ready for burning. The commandant was seriously wounded. One Irregular was captured but the others escaped in motor cars. Mr Stanley Baldwin, Chancellor oi the Exchequer, presented Pariiamen t-ary Papers showing that the Dominions, during the current financial year to December 31. had repaid d'ebts totalling L 1,189,985, including Austratrulia £525,877 and New Zealand £141,169. Since the Armistice 400 British soldiers on the Rhine married German women. A torpedo exploded aboard the cruiser Coventry at Gibraltar. Of six victims three are dead. The cause of the explosion is not stated. The Privy Council refused leave to Zaghlul Pasha to appeal against the decision of the Gibraltar Supreme Court, under which he is now a political prisoner. The constitutional issue was whether British law applied to Gibraltar or whether its laws had remained the laws of the British garrison. Zaghlul’s counsel contended that English law applied to Gibraltar, anti that Zaghlui could not be detained. The Colonial Office is still without communications from the Dominions definitely agreeing to the suggested date for conferences between September and November although the Australian and New Zealand communications imply concurrence. Tt is authoritativelv stated that the opinion is growing that the Imperial Conference will possibly be postponed until next year, owing to the apparent, impracticamility of a full attendance of Premiers this year. A high authority points out that Mr Bonar Law's original proposal contemplated an economic conference independently of the Imperial Concer fence. Mr Bonar Law attaches the gupremest importance to an economic conference, notably in relation to inter-imperial communications transport, and Imperial preference. Tt is unofficially suggested that the Dominions might send to an economic conference Finance Ministers and experts whose recommendations would come before the Imperial Conference next therein- obviating the attendance of Prime Ministers this year