OVERNIGHT CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17757, 29 January 1926, Page 11

OVERNIGHT CABLES.

SYDNEY, January 28. The fifth victim of the Redhead collier}.* disaster, caused b}' an explosion, has succumbed to his injuries. » « MELBOURNE, January 2S. Bush fires in the eastern ranges are causing extensive damage. The residents are fleeing before the flames. « « LONDON, January 27. The Anglo-Italian Debt Agreement has been signed. Official: Italy pays £2,000,000 immeditwo 3'ears, £4,250,000 for the four following years, £4,300,000 thereafter until! 1987 and £2.250,000 in 1988. Payments are to be made half >*earl3'. WASHINGTON, January 27. After sitting long past the usual hour of adjournment, the Senate' on Wednesday evening ratified the resolution authorising the United States’adherence to the World Court. Before the final roll call was reached, the old League of Nations controversy, the Woodrow Wilson policy and mail}* others issues were argued out again. st t-: us SYDNEY. January 28. The bush fire has now passed the Murrumbidgee and is approaching the north-west slopes of Mount Stromio on the slopes of which are pine plantations costing huge sums, and at top of which is the Commonwealth observatorj r . Men are being gathered from ail parts of the district and rushed to the scene, « irZ us SYDNEY, January 28. Huge b42£h fires are raging beyond the MurttiZKbidgee. A Strong wind is driving the Crimes towards the confluence of the Cotter and Murrumbidgee. If the fire crosses the river the bush around the Cotter dain and the great pine plantations on Mount Stromio will be in grave danger and Canberra threatened. Volunteers from Canberra have been rushed to the scene of the outbreak. Fires are also raging in the Bathurst district, causing heavy damage. LONDON, January 2s. Mr Churchill has published a Note explaining that the Italian payments are separate from the Reparations Agreement. The agreement includes a clause that if Britain, receives more from reparations and allied debts than ; Britain has a!read\ r paid the United States Italy’s proportionate share of tho.se payments would be credited to future debt paiunente. Mr Churchill asserts that the AngloItalian settlement is more favourable than the Ttalc-American. He dc- . scribes the agreement as another milestone in European appeasement and , consolidation. BERLIN* January 27. In opening the debate in the Reichstag on the Government's programme, Herr Fehrenbach (Centre) and the Socialist, Herr Meuller, demanded that Germany enter the League without de!a>* and unconditionally. He agreed with the other parties in the view’ that promises made had not been fulfilled. but he declared that opposition to their fulfilment did not come from the statesmen, but from militarj' quarters in the Entente owing to the swrord rattling bj' the German Nationalist Press. Count Westarp, leader of the Ger man Nationalists, bitterly criticised Dr Stresemann’s policy and remarked that the impossibility of carrying out the Dawes plan was now generally recognised.