OVERNIGHT CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17159, 1 October 1923, Page 9

OVERNIGHT CABLES.

GENEVA, September 28. The Assembly of the League unanimously voted for the admission of Abyssinia. LONDON. September 29. Mr Patrick Hastings. K.C., Labour member of the House of Commons for Wallsend, predicted that there, would ho a Labour Government in Britain in 1926, with Mr Ramsay MacDonald as Prime Minister. NEW YORK, September 29. Cloudbursts and jiornadoes damaged sections of tho Western States on Friday. Eight people were killed at Louisville. Nebraska, and four at Council Bluffs. lowa, when their homes were destroyed. SOFIA, September 28. Bombs were thrown on a fair ground resulting in two persons being killed and fifteen injured Reservists have been called up. Troops surrounded the last Communist stronghold at Ferdinandovo asti arrested the Communists. LONDON. September 2S. 1 The Paris correspondent of the “ Morning Post ” understands that a ! Franco-Belgian conference is likely to | take place soon, and that the outcome may be a meeting of the Supreme Council of the Allies, independently of whether any proposals arc received from Berlin. BERLIN. September 29. i Letters written by officers and men J of Admiral von Spee’s squadron, on I the. eve of the Battle of the Falkland Islands, have reached their relatives in Germany after nine rears. Thev were recently found at Ponape, and handed to Germany by the Japanese Government. LONDON. September 29. A delivery of mails from New Zea land, dated August 28. was made ii London on September 27. This is believed to be a record transit. It was due to the acceleration i of the .steamer Tahiti, owing to Mi Massey’s desire to reach Lon-dor quickly. LONDON, September 29. t England is enjoying a wonderful!high temperature for this time of tlv year. What is termed an “ Indiai summer ’’ is being much appreciated b; tennis players and cricketers, who arthronging the open spaces, notwith standing that winter football is now : month old.

LONDON, September 29. “I want my mother,” was all that an eighteen-year-old pit lad could murmur when picked up, dying, in a Cannockc.hase mine, with a fractured skull, thigh and arm broken and other terrible injuries. A number of loaded trucks went over the lad and he died before his mother was able to come. LONDON. September 29. ** Lloyd’s News ” states that Carol, the beautiful daughter of BrigadierGeneral O. A. Wilding, of Ponbiv.i Hall, Montgomeryshire, head of a Welsh family daring from the sixteenth century, has been married to Reginald Bavie.s. her father’s valet, who is the son of a Newport docker. The couple fell in love at first sight, and the General consented to the marATHENS, September 30. Greece, replying to the decision of the ambassadors’ conference that slv should pay, dwells on the efforts made to find the authors of the Janina crime, and pleads that she could not pursue the investigations in Albania where, it. is believed, the criminals are. The reply adds: -“The infliction of a fine has produced a painful impression. as the people placed confidence in the great Powers and three out of the four representatives though* Greece not responsible.” LONDON, September 29. Retorting to Air Asquith’s speech, Mr Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that the speech was equivalent to saying to the dominion representatives: ’ Sorry, good friends, you come for nothing because your ideas of common helpfulness are a mischievous chimera. Wc do not want a ring fence. Kindly abolish the 25 per cent preference you give our manufacturers, and substitute free commercial interchange between you and foreign nations.” Air Chamberlain said he was of the opinion that, in a generation or two, tho dominions would bo among the powerful peoples of the’ world’ , Their influence in the Empire would be unlimited, if thev only remained united.

SYDNEY, September 30. At the annual Eight-hour Day banquet the Labour leaders stressed tho apathy of trades unionists in matters vitaly concerning themselves and tlieir oisinclinatiori to make sacrifices for

the cause. Air M. Charlton. Federal leader, urged the need of solidarity. He said that events which had occurred since tho last election showed that when, in the near future, they went to the polls the result would be that the Federal Labour Party would rule the country. Ho declared that there was danger in Air Bruce’s mission to the Imperial Conference. He believed that the danger zone would bo reached when Mr Bruce attached his signature to any document committing Australia to any share in Imperial defence. Australia did not want to participate in international quarrels but desired to work only for the world’s peace. GENEVA. September 29. Arising out of the recent ItaloGreek conflict, Viscount Ishii. at a meeting of the League Council, announced the decision to refer the question of tho Council’s competence to deal with disputes between members of the League, which were insoluble bv friendly methods, to a commission of jurists. M. Branting (Sweden) expressed preference for the Court of International Justice. Lord Robert Cecil urged the necessity of immediately deciding the questions at issue. Dr Nansen (Norway) supported AI. Branting. All tho speakers showed anxiety- for due despect for tho Covenant, j Professor Niell. representing Iro- ! land, advocated respect for tho League iin adjudicating disputes. Each member of the Council will be entitled to nominate jurists for t.h© commission, which will report to the December meeting. LONDON, September 29. The last hope of rescuing the men entombed in the Redding pit, near Falkirk, has been abandoned. The mine is permeated with black damp where it is not flooded. WASHINGTON, September 29. President Coolidge received Sir Roderick Jones, chairman of Reuter’s, at the White House. The President praised highly the British payments on the war debt, and • said that he believed the British , jicople would themselves fco recom - j pense.d in cumulative good for the | efforts required of them to conclude re ’ payment of the war loans. He also bei Imve.d that Americans would find it

! well worth their while to have n\ado the sacrifices on their side in con nee | tion with the refunding. “ A great ■■ impression, which cannot but result in good, has been produced on us by the British repayment/ 5 the President added.

LONDON, September 29. The Paris correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph ” says that the holding of the Birth-rate Congress at Marseilles, at which further penalisation of childless couples, bachelors and spinsters was advocated, synchronised with an outburst by spinsters who protested against the outrage of having had twenty-five per cent added to their income tax because men did not ask them to marry. “They say that as there are more | women than men it is obvious that many must remain spinsters, and that it is disgraceful for the Stato to stigmatise their condition as a disgrace by inflicting a fine.” LONDON, September 29, j Air Lloyd George had a very cordial (send-off fncteu Waterloo station, recalbng the days of his Premiership. . His final words were; “ T much ar>j preciate your kindness and goodwill !in seeing me r»ff the premises. Look I after the Old Country. I am going to Canada, first as a duty to one of the t dominions. X, as an old war-time Minister, have to thank them for magnificent- help thev gave, without which wo might not have pulled through.” LONDON. September 29. There was a surprising seouel when William Annai, paced bv W. Barnie. attempted to swim the Firth of Forth from Burnt Island to Leith, a distance of nine miles. Annai abandoned the swim when half : way owing to the coldness of the water j but Barnie unexpectedly completed the distance, and landed at Leith amid th. 3 1 cheers of a huge crowd.