OVERNIGHT CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17759, 1 February 1926, Page 3

OVERNIGHT CABLES.

ROME, January 31. A secret ballot in the Chamber adopted the Locarno Pact by 251 to 6 votes. TOKIO, January 31. 'The Cabinet, under Baron Wakutsuki, has been formally installed. No change in policy is anticipated. NEW YORK. January 29. Thirty men are reported to have been killed through a gas explosion in a coal mine twenty-five miles from Birmingham, Alabama. Twenty men were rescued. LONDON!* January 30. Mr Philip Snowden (Chancellor of the Exchequer under the Labour Government) has attacked Mr Churchill’s Italian debt settlement. He declared that if Mr Churchill remained at the Exchequer the country would soon have no national assets. lie did not believe any man could bring the finance to such a deplorable state in twelve months. DE January 30. After completing the longest stage of the Spain to Argentine flight. Commander Franco’s seaplane landed in the sea off Fernando dc Noronha bn Saturday evening and was towed into the harbour. Having traversed 3305 miles, the next lap of the flight will be 279 miles to Pernambuco on the Brazilian mainland. LONDON, January 30. Mr Lloyd George, speaking at Shrewsbury and alluding to the controversy aroused by his reference to Sir Alfred Mond, said: No one respects the Jewish race more than I. Whatever comments I may have made upon certain specimens (and T criticised the specimens of every race in turn) 1 have always, been a great protagonist of the Jews, and no one resented more strongly attacks upon them. Nothing tills me with greater contempt than to see newspapers drenched with antiSemitism, trying to make political capital out of criticism which 1 passed upon a certain member of that race. LONDON, January 30 In the fourth round of the Cup tics. Arsenal beat Blackburn 3-1; Boscombe and Bolton drew, 2-2; Bury and Millwall drew, 3-3; Cardiff City lost to Newcastle, 0-2; Clapton beat Middlesborough 4-2; Crystal Palace beat Chelsea 2-1; Fulham beat Liverpool 3-1; Manchester City, beat Huddersfield 4-0; Notts Forest beat Swindon 2-0; Notts County beat New Brighton 2-0; Sheffield United lost to Sunderland 1-2; Southend beat Derby County 4-1; South Shield beat Birmingham 2-1 ; Swansea beat Stoke, 6-3; Tottenham and Manchester United drew’, 2-2; West Bromich lost to Aston Villa 1-2. LONDON. January 29. The “ Daily Express ” understands that Cabinet is likely to adopt a new and far-reaching agricultural policy based on the formation of a' Central Land Mortgage Corporation, formed with the co-operation of joint stock banks to provide credits on a national scale for’ farmers upon securities like crops, which banks have hitherto not accepted. The Goverment will seek to develop agriculture by methods similar to those in vogue on the Continent, by the occupying and ownership of small hokl- ' There will be a comprehensive land drainage and reclamation scheme, opening up large areas for cultivation. The proposals will be on a scale, calculated to affect the whole future of British agriculture. BERLIN, January 30. Interest in Von Scheer’s theoretical great naval victory at the close of the war, with which Gtsrman generals are now consoling themselves for its loss, has been aroused by the evidence of Prince Max of Baden before the Reichstag Commission of Inquiry. Prince Max, who was then Imperial i Chancellor, suggests that the plan failed because he was not taken into the secret. lie asks: Why did not the navy trust me? 1 would probably have advised the postponement of their attack until the terms of the armistice were known, then the undertaking would probably have succeeded, but T would have favoured the plan even if it involved the sacrifice of the whole fleet, for it might have proved a new Thermopylae, and stimulated a fatigued nation to hold out until victory. LONDON? January 30. With the object of avoiding what is regarded as unfair taxation, reductions in the stipends of the Archbishop of Canterbury from £15,000 to £SOOO, the Archbishop of York from £IO,OOO to £3OOO, the Bishop of London from £IO.OOO to £3339, the Bishop of Durham from £7OOO to £2339, the Bishop of Winchester from £BSOO to £2166, wili be proposed at the Church Assembly which will open in London on February S. These dignitaries at present pay income supertaxes on their full stipend, from which they meet church as well as personal expenses. It is also proposed that the Archbishops shall have pensions of £ISOO, the three Bishops named £IOOO, others £BOO. towards the cost of which they will pay 3-1 per cent of their stipend. The scheme provides better pay for the poorer clergy. LONDON. January 30. Lord Forster, Sir James Allen, Sir I'. Coghlan and Mr 11. P. C’oiebatch and other Dominion representatives attended the Commissioner’s dinner of the Boy Scouts 1 Association, to which the King sent a message of congratulation on the continued increase of the movement. Responding to the chief toast, proposed by Lord Jcllicoe, Sir Robert Baden-Powell said that progress, overseas had been more rapid than in the Home Country. Australia and New Zealand had gone ahead splendidly during the past twelve months, and there would be a big forward movement in the coming year. They were close on half a million strong ail over the Empire, and over a million and a half world-wide, but many more had passed through the movement and were infused with its spirit. WASHINGTON,' January 30. “ Wet ” leaders in Congress state that two small developments in the prohibition situation, namely, the warning by the Federal Department of Justice that illegal warrants for searching a dwelling where liquof is suspected no longer will be tolerat.€M|., and secondly, an immediate reduction in the number of Federal prohibition agents, have marked the end of the Anti-Saloon League domination of Government activities and, consequently, the beginning of an era of sanity in “dry” law enforceThe “dry;." were obviously depressed. They admitted the result would markedly affect enforcement. The illegal warrant declaration was followed by Judges freeing the “dry” law violator. They said that it had been claimed that he was guilty and deserved to be sentenced, but the conviction had been accomplished by a plain violation of his constitutional right and by a method which the Courts could not sanction. Approximately 600 of 1900 Federal

agents will be dropped because of the prohibition unit exceeding its 11,000.000 dollars appropriation for the year. There is.no likelihood that the force can be increased next year, since the Congressional appropriation for that LONDON. January 29. The promoter of a girls’ boxing tourney has called off the contests, declaring that lie did not wish to oppose public opinion, which clearly was not ready for such sport. The decision coincides with a letter from the Home Secretary replying to a protest against the contests in which he points out that though the contests would be an outrage lie had no power to interfere if the girls were merely sparring without the object of one winning by inflicting injuries on the other. He adds: This would not be illegal because the Legislature never imagined such a disgraceful exhibition would ever be staged in Britain. Miss • Newton, who has been training with male boxers, is extremely disappointed and declares the action is unfair. She says: “I will proceed with my sparring nevertheless, and would not forgo it for anything in the world. I do not know what all the fuss is about." Miss Newton is described as extraordinarily active and quick-footed and able to break down a male opponent’s guard.