OVERNIGHT CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17183, 29 October 1923, Page 11

OVERNIGHT CABLES.

LONDON. October 28. The " Pall Mall Gazette ” has ceased publication and henceforth will be absorbed in the ** Evening Standard.'’ October 26. The Secretariat of the League of Nations has received from Albania an offi j cial strong protest against the Greek 1 allegations tending to throw guilt for the Janina crime on Albanians. ROME. October 28. It is semi-officially reported that Italy favourably replied to the British proposal regarding an invitation to the United States to collaborate with the Allies in an effort to solve the reparations problem. WASHINGTON', October 26. President Coolidge. in a letter read at a dinner to the former Prime Minister of Britain, said: “The visit of M t David Lloyd George to the United States has been a piece of good fortune for both his country and our own. and for the cause of international accord/’ AMSTERDAM, October 26. A political crisis has been precipitated in consequence of the rejection of a Navy Bill providing for Dutch naval units ill the East Indies. The measure was defeated h.v a majority of one vote, ten Roman Catholic members voting with the parties on the loit. LONDON, October 27. # Among dominion delegates there is a concensus of opinion that Mrr Baldwin’s proposal, regarding the tariff, i’s a step in the right direction, and, tha£, while Britain seeks—as she has a perfect right to do—to conserve her own j market, in the first place for her own producers, she will ultimately concede her Empire partners preference on foodstuffs against foreign competition. NEW YORK, October 26. A message from Seattle states that the biggest tides in the history of Western Alaska have been recorded. They are believed to be the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake. Wharves and warehouses wore destroyed at Kodiak. Nyuk. Chignik Bay, although several feet above the waterline. LONDON, October 27. Mr Massey, on behalf of the Government and people of New Zealand, wrote to Lord Burnham expressing the hope that he. and Lady Burnham and the British delegation to the Press Conference in 1925, would visit New Zealand. Lord Burnham replied that, health permitting, he would have the greatest pleasure in accepting the invitation, for he had long wanted to see New Zealand. SYDNEY. October 28. A disastrous fire at Annandale consumed O. K. Elliott’s large, heavily stocked furniture factory. The flames spread across the street and. destroyed two shops and two cottages, and damaged three others. Electrio light services were partially disabled owing to the smashing of the wires. The damage will run into many thousands. BUENOS AIRES, October 27. Professor Climenti Oneilli, director of the Buenos Aires Zoological Garden, and a distinguished biologist, has declared that the extension of monkey gland operations will probably result in curious changes in human evolution the course of a few generations. The time will come, he says, when the substitution of secretions of such inferior animals as monkeys will come tobe more widely practised, and so many monkev-mevi produced that-, after a few generations, the characteristics of the human species will show variations. A genus of satyrs might result. BERLIN. October 28. Twelve were killed and twenty wounded in an encounter between Communists and Reichswehr at Feideburg, Saxony. The Imperial Government has demanded the resignation of the Saxon Government by to-morrow, as the result of incitements by Communist members thereof to rebellion against the Imperial Government. Dr Stresemann informed the Saxon Premier, Dr Zeigner. that the Imperial Government no longer recognised his Government. The Imperial Government lias also asked the Bavarian Government immediately\ to restore command of the Bavarian Reichswehr. which Bavaria assumed some time ago. LONDON. October 28. The Countess of Warwick, in her first, speech as the Labour candidate for the Warwick and Leamington seat, said, “The young, thoughtless woman wbo lived in Warwick Castle in the old days is no more. I am too old for political ambitions. In the short space L now have left T~want to place my etiergies at the disposal of those struggling to make Britain a place fit for heroes. I have.- been twenty-four years a member of the Socialist Party. 1 have had to stick it out with friends of the family, foi in the years gone by. Socialism was not fashionable. J am merely an old woman living in a castle- We are very poor and the castle ought to become a national monument.*’ 1 There are 42,000 electors of whom | 12.000 are womeni The. “ Sunday Times ” says _ that i the announcement that Mr Winston I j Churchill will speak at- Manchester on ’ November 20 shows the way the wind | is blowing. j The wings of the Liberal Party are able to supply a formidable list oi 1 speakers, while the Conservatives are