OVERNIGHT CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18960, 6 January 1930, Page 16

OVERNIGHT CABLES.

(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Simon Commission. RUGBY, January 4. The report of the Statutory Commission under the chairmanship of Sir John Simon, which will make recommendations for reforms in the constitution of India, is expected to be ready for publication in the early part of March. Another Arrest. PARTS, January 4. The police have made a fourth an-est in connection with an alleged anti-fac-ist plot at Marseilles, taking into custody an Italian journalist named Fernando Schiavette. The police searched his house finding Signor di Rosa’s home address. Last week three Italians were arrested on the ground that they were plotting against the Italian Minister of Justice. Explosives were found in their room in their hotel. Nine Students Killed. VANCOUVER. January 4. At Wooster. Ohio, a score of students, composing a basket-ball team, were travelling on board a bus when a Pennsylvania train struck it at a crossing, outside the village of Streve. Nine were killed and all the others on board were injured. Witnesses said that the driver saw the train and slowed down, but the bus skidded on the icy pavement and stalled right across the tracks. Entente Now Dead. PARIS, January 4. “Pertinax” writing in “L’Echo de Paris,’’refers to what he calls “England’s American policy.” He expresses the opinion that the Entente Cordiale is now dead. “England has no desire for a special understanding towards France,” he wrote. “The Puritan spirit is at present uppermost, and the only thing for France to do is to await the turn of the wheel.” Singapore Base. LONDON. January 5 The Navy League has handed to Mr Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, and to Mr A. V. Alexander. First Lord of the Admiralty, copies of the protest made by the New Zealand branch of the League against the delay in the construction of the Singapore Base. Mr Hoover Replies. WASHINGTON, January 4. Replying to King George’s New Year's greeting. President Hoover sent the following message: “I am happy to receive your Majesty’s message and New Year wishes. The resolve to advance world peace by mutual goodwill and by limitation of naval armaments is an earnest of the purpose of the American and the British peoples and their Governments.

It is my hope that it will be the endeavour of the American Government to see this great object attained during the year which has just commenced. I also desire to reciprocate your Majesty’s good wishes.” Rugby Football. LONDON, January 4. In the county Rugby football cham pionship, Yorkshire defeated Cheshire at Bradford, 11-6. Panama Canal Tolls. VANCOUVER, January 4. Panama Canal tolls broke all records last year. The amount collected was £5,500,000. Unrest in Japan. TOKIO, January 4. The attempted dynamiting of an im portant power plant by workmen, who had been discharged on account of retrenchment, was discovered and averted in the nick of time. The widespread increase of industrial unrest and frequent sabotage is attributable to the repressing influence of Mr Hamaguchi’s economy campaign Police Wounded. SINGAPORE, January 4. Two European police inspectors narrowly escaped death. They were wounded in the neck and thigh respectively, when challenging a gang of Chinese suspects who immediately fired revolvers. The inspectors returned the fire and shot dead two of the gang. The Soviet Embassy. LONDON, January o. The Soviet Embassy is renting No. 40, Grosvenor Square, formerly the pro perty of Sir Charles Tennant, father of Lady Asquith. Plane Companies at Law. NEW YORK, January 4. One of the results of the award to the Curtiss Aeroplane Company of the Guggenheim prize for safer flying has been the filing of a suit by the Hand-ley-Page Company alleging infringement of their slotted-wing patents by the Curtiss Company, and asking for 300,000 dollars damages. A counter-suit was filed by the Curliss Company to-day for 100.000 dollars in an effort to “conserve its rights.” It is rumoured, moreover, that the HandJey-Page Company may attempt to secure an injunction against granting the safety prize. City Man Arrested. LONDON, January 5. Mr Francis Loring, chairman and founder of the group of Bluebird petrol I companies, whose crash last May caused a sensation in the City, has been arrested in Paris. No Score in League Test. LONDON, January 4. In the final Rugby League test of the Australian tour neither side scored. The match was witnessed by the largest crowd of the season. The ground was heavy after rain.