OVERNIGHT CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17353, 19 May 1924, Page 10

OVERNIGHT CABLES.

CONSTANTINOPLE, May 16. The newspapers assert that Russia is secretly mobilising on the Bessarabian frontier. CAPE TOWN, May 17. Nine of the Rand revolution prisoners have been released. They thanked the Premier publicly for releasing them Two natives will be released on Monday. MELBOURNE, May 17. The tramway employees have accepted the Arbitration Court's decision and a full service will be resumed on Monday. The direct loss to the Tramway Board through the strike amounts to £22,000. WASHINGTON, May 17. The Immigration Bill, providing for Japanese exclusion, reached the White House to-day for consideration by President Coolidge. The measure will first be sent to the Labour and State Departments for opinions as to its practicability, but action by the President upon the measure must be taken by midnight on May 29. Mr P. Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking in his constituency, Colne-Valley, said that he hoped in the present year to establish a wellequipped Land Valuation Department, and, at the first opportunity, he would STibmit financial proposals for the taxation of the unearned increment of land.

He thought the sum obtainable by this means would be very substantial. MELBOURNE, May 18. The Commonwealth Steamship Owners’ Association is applying to the Arbitration Court for a variation of the existing award by making a provision for the Seamen’s Union to be responsible for the observance of the award by its branches and officers. The owners are also applying for the insertion of a clause providing that a union, during the term of an award, shall neither order, nor encourage or aid any strike or attempt to impose job control. TOKIO, May 17. According to advices from Paramushir, the American flight from Attu, 936 miles, took twelve hours ten minues. during which the fliers were forced down by strong winds and heavy impenetrable snowstorm for six hours’ wait off the shores of Koloski, one of the Behring IslesThe weather here at present is wild, with a gale of rain and §pow and the thermometer below freezing point.. LONDON, May 17.

Sir Edward Elgar, in a letter to 1 the “Daily Telegraph.” says that ap- i preciation of his “Dream of Geron- ! tius” usually takes the form of “great : spiritual uplift.” “Now I have received a mr.'t appreciated testimonial from New Zealand. A little hoy there, after hearing selections, sent a message : C I wish he would come and stay with us; I would give him my pup.’ “I am n.'i greedy,” Sir Edward rdds, “but I long for that pup, and if legislation did not interfere with itlanding I would go and fetch it.” BERLIN, May 17. The police report that they rearrested the wanted Communist. Bozenhardt. whose escape led to the recent incident and Russian protest, .in the house of a member of the Russian Trade Delegation, where, apparently, he had been hiding for a fortuight. The German Government is prepared to accede to the Russian demand for payment of compensation for damage done in the delegation offices during the search, hut is unwilling to recog nise extra-tivrjtorial rights, or agree to punish responsible police officials, notwithstanding the fact that the police superintendent already has been suspended. WASHINGTON, May 17. The discussion which has been proceeding throughout the country on the means to minimize war-profiteering, in which Mr H. C. Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, and Mr C. B. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, have participated, early reached a legislative stage. The House Military Affairs Committee has reported a resolution designed to take the profit out of war.

The resolution would create a commission composed of four Congressmen, two senators and three presidential appointees, representing respectively public, labour and industry. These, with the Secretaries for War, Navy and Commerce, would be empowered to draft a plan for pooling national resources and Governmental machinery in order to operate without profit any private interest in the case of war.