OVERNIGHT CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17568, 19 June 1925, Page 13

OVERNIGHT CABLES.

LONDON, June 13. The Postmaster-General, Sir W. Id. Thomson, speaking at Sheffield, said the Government hoped to restore penny postage during the present Parliament. SYDNEY June 18. Officials of the seamen’s and waterside workers’ unions held a conference to discuss the maritime position. Tho proceedings were in camera. The general opinion among .shipowners is that fdl vessels engaged in' inier-State trade will bo tied up as their articles expire. GENEVA, June 17. The Arms Conference closed after twenty-seven States, including all the great Powers, out of the forty-five States represented at the conference had signed a convention and also a protocol prohibiting the use cf chemicals and bacteria in warfare. PARIS, June 17. Another German trawler has been seized at Agadir and taken to Mogador for search. Two others, recently seized, have been released, no arms being found. A Franco-Spanish conference to decide upon a joint policy in regard to the Riff position has opened at Madrid. LONDON, June 18. Mr L. C. M. S. Amerv and the Hon W. Ormsby-Gore have determined to travel the Empire to the utmost during their term of office, according to a speech of the latter at the Nigeria Club. In conformity with this decision Mr Ormsby-Gore is going to Nigeria within WASHINGTON, June 18. Mr O. Wilbur, Secretary for the Navy, announces that Rear-Admiral' Samuel Robinson, commanding the battle fleet, will succeed Admiral Coontz as Commander-in-Chief of the United States Navy following upon the Pacific crui*<e. Admiral Coontz, probably, will return to shore duty here until his retirement three years hence. LONDON June 13. The Paris correspondent of “The Times’’ says that French political interest is centred in a split in the Government forces over Morocco, which, it is suggested, may result in the withdrawal of Socialist support. Tiro Radical Press strives to minimise the importance of tho breach, but' it is emphasised that, if not checked, the Government position may be seriously weakened, if not endangered Tho Socialist Press is pointing out' that differences also exist about finance and warn the Government that a break may be inevitable in the near LONDON, June 13. The Belgrade correspondent of “The i Times” says that tire Jugc-Slav Government has addressed a sharply-word-ed Note to Austria drawing attention to the use the Communists are making of Austrian territory for tho purpose of propaganda against tho Balkan States, and also drawing attention to Moscow’s numerous diplomatic nominations to Austria. The Note adds that the Jugc-Slav Government will not further tolerate the issue of subversive Communistic literature and the activities of Communist organisations and agents, and Austria, is asked to take urgent measures to case tlio situation. LONDON, June 17. The Ministry of Labour has made an interesting investigation into the personal circumstances and industrial history cf typical case 3 among 10,000 claimants for unemployed benefits. ; It is found that 02 per cent of the men and 77 per cent of the women normally would be in steady employment. Only 3$ per cent of the men and 1-j per cent of the women are verging upon permanent unemployment, and these are mainly'elderly and-in poor health. Of tiie unemployed men, 23 per cent had been apprenticed and 24 per cent had been trained and 54 per cent neither apprenticed nor trained, while 67 per cent of the men and 73 per cent cf the women are in good health. , OAPK TOWN, June 18. j Commenting on the proposed Anglo- ( French security pact the “ Cape Times” says: — “A word of warning may be given, to British commentators who are apt to assurn© that tho attitude of British sympathisers in the dominions will be one of automatic acquiescence, on the thesis trat it is of unquestionable interest to the dominions to join tho British Government in such an agreement with France. The vary opposite is tho truth. There is a very strong body of opinion in the dominions, which is convinced that the tendency of the British Foreign Office to be intensely preoccupied with European affairs is "a disastrous tendency, from the point of view cf the true welfare of the British Empire. Tt is ludicrous to nay that the security of France is the main interest of the various, com- .

munities of the Empire. Mr Chamberlain should realise that opinion in South Africa, without distinction of j race, is strongly against any such j PARIS, June 17. Professor Calmette, lecturing before the Academy of Medicine, detailed tfc© results of experiments with a now method of vaccinating new born The yaccino i 3 known as the Calplied by the Pasteur Institute. Out of 137 children belonging to i contaminated families, treated during J tho first half cf 192*2 with anti-tuber- ! culosis vaccine, none had died of any* illness which was the- outcome oi* tuberculosis, whereas the mortality smong non-raceinaterl children living under similar conditions in Paris was 3 2 per cent. Tho vaccine is administered in a spoonful of milk every forty-eight hours from the third to the tenth day after birth. LONDON, June 17. In the House of Commons, replying to Colonel Gretton (C., Burton),' Mr" Baldwin said that the arrangement for direct communication and consultation between the Prime Ministers of Britain and the dominions had not been’ discontinued. The announcement that it was intended to appoint a Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs in no wise modified cr conflicted with the desire, which* ' the Prime Ministers of the Enipira ! expressed in 1918. for direct communication, Mr Baldwin added. Tb© cir- , eumstances in which direct comrauni- I caii.cn between the Prime Ministers 1 occurred were clearly indicated in the resolutions cf the Imperial War Cabinet, 1918, which were confirmed by - the conference of 1921 and remained' , ! iu force.