OVERNIGHT CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17177, 22 October 1923, Page 10

OVERNIGHT CABLES.

LONDON, October 21. A large crowd greeted, the Prince of Wales on his arrival in London from Canada. Ho was sun-bronzed, and enjoyed the holiday. LONDON, October 21. Arrangements are being made to enable the owners of wireless receiving sets throughout the United Kingdom, numbering several hundred thousand, to hear Mr Baldwin deliver a speech at Plymouth on October 25. NEW YORK, October 20. Speaking at St Louis, Mr Lloyd George declared: “Unless tho German situation is' settled, unthinkable havoc may result to all the world. The reparations question should be settled on ihe basis of Germany’s real capacity to pay.” NEW YORK, October 20. At St Louis Mr D. M&ckinnon, Australian Trade Commissioner in America, in a private interview with Mr Lloyd George transmitted the invitation of the Lord Mayor of Sydney to the ex-Prime Minister to visit Australia. <3 v Mr Lloyd George declared that he w as very keen to go, but could not see his way clear to make the trip at present.

LONDON, October 20. Sir Robert Horne. M.P., formerly Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Glasgow, suggested that the Government, as a remedy for unemployment. instead of applying £40,000,000 to debt redemption, should develop some great scheme by which to enrich and develop the dominions, at the same time providing a lasting benefit to Britain’s teeming millions. BERLIN. October 21. France lias broken off negotiations with the Ruhr magnates. Dr Stresemann regards this as tho end of all efforts to secure a settlement, and has instructed representatives abroad to inform the Governments that Germany holds France responsible for the lives of the people in the occupied territory. NEW YORK, October 20. The "New York Times” editorially contrasting the Australian and New Zealand selective immigration policies with the present haphazard American restrictive measure, prac tic-all v -unrestricted immigration, says:—“They have learned a lesson from the United States. They are determined to exclude all persons who are unlikely to be rapidly and thoroughly assimilated for they are determined to make the growth of foreign colonies within their territories impossible.” LONDON. October 20. The Dean ol Westminster announce* that, as the Abbey service on Novem her 11 must of necessity be of an offi cud character, no tickets will be available. for the public, hut tho fighting services and ex-servicemen will be represented. The “ Daily Telegraph ” says:— “ This astonishing announcement eclipses even the Government’s blunder in abandoning the Cenotaph service. A substituted afternoon service in Trafalgar Square would lack the impressiveness of the Cenotaph ceremony. The Government has shown complete lack of vision and sympathy with national feeling.” PARIS, October 20. The Socialist leader, M. Herriot, addressing lilt? Radical Socialist Congress on France's foreign policy, recommended the maintenance of an attitude of prudence. Jlo declared that they were not going to condemn the occupation of tho Ruhr, at the moment that it was ending. Ix th*y protested against tho occupation, German capitalism would urge the Chancellor to delay, as there was a party in Fuar.ce demanding the submission ol tho matter to the- Hague of Nations, which was unthinkable. An ex-Minister, M. Franklon Boullion, declared that it would l>o madness to submit tho reparations question to the League. 1 NEW YORK, October 20. At Chicago the Marquis Curzon, British Foreign Minister, was to-day accused by Joseph Leitor, a capitalist, with having inspired an attack charging him (Leiter), as trustee of the estate of his father, the late Levi Lei ter, of being guilty of gross mismanagement. The accusation was made in an answer filed in the Superior Court to a cross bill of the three daughters of the Marquis. The amount involved in the litigation is 100.000.000d01. The original bill was filed by the Countess of Suffolk and Berkshire, Leiter’s sister, who alleged mismanagement. The suit, Loiter stated, was filed at the behest of the Marquis Curzon because of his resentment, of the far t that lie was not made a trustee of the | estate. The charges were unfounded.