LATE CABLE NEWS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2576, 25 July 1922, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS

AUCKLAND ELECTRIC LOANSUBSCRIBED WITHIN AN HOUR By Cable-Press Association-Copyright. (Received II a.m.) LONDON, July 24. The Auckland electric issue over-subscribed within an hour. CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA • GOOD HARVEST PROSPECTS EFFECT ON SOVIET POLICY LONDON, July 22. The worst of the Russian famine is over, though foreign help is still needed. The American relief administration continues to feed several millions. Deaths due to famine are estimated at 500,000 instead of 10,000,000 predicted. There are prospects of an exceptionally bounteous harvest in Russia this year, even in the famine-swept areas. Probably much of it will be wasted, as the weakened peasants, whose stock perished during the famine, will be unable to reap it. The .Soviet’s uncompromising attitude at the Genoa and Hague Conferences is due to the prospects of an excellent harvest. Soviet leaders say that Russia cam now afford to wait instead of making further concessions to bourbeois Governments. M. Litvinoff, in a statement issued at The Hague, declares that the failure of the conference shows clearly that it is impossible to reach an agreement at any conference. The only possibility of achieving anything is by separate agreements. ■ ARNST-PADDON MATCH i DECLARED OFF By Cable-Press Association-Copyright (Received 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, yesterday. The Paddon-Arnst sculling mateh baa been declared off. It is stated that Paddon extended the original <Jate mentioned threo times, but declined a postponement from September 9 td 23.