GENERAL CABLES.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 19 May 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

(Per Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, May 17. The Duke of Richmond and Gordon has decided to sell the Huntley estates, Aberdeenshire, 60,000 acres, containing over 400 farms and small heldings owing to the pressure of rates, taxes, and other burdens. The National Farmers’ Union is seeking a Government loan of £lO,000,000. They appointed a deputation to see Colonel Amery regarding the Dominions’ demand for men with experience in agriculture. PARIS, May 17. The Conference of Ambassadors requested Germany to abandon the construction of certain railways in Rhineland of strategic importance, and to modify or destroy existing lines before occupation ends. , The conference decided to permit the ex-Empress Zita of Austria to reside in Spain. LONDON, May 17. The King sent congratulatory letters to Major-General Sir Fabian Ware, upon the War Graves Commission’s work in France. The King trusts that High Commissioners and other representatives of the Dominions will convey to their Governments and the peoples, his great satisfaction at the care bestowed on the graves of those who lie so far from their homes. In all cemeteries visited Dominion and British graves are side by side. The King assures his peoples overseas that these will be reverently and lovingly guarded for all time. In reply to a question in the House of Commons it was stated that the War-Office was arranging a contract for photographing war graves and that copies would l» sent to relatives. F TOKIO, May 17. Count Uchida, Minister of Foreign Affairs, in a statement said that the Manchurian declaration of independence had not changed Japan’s policy. Though large Japanese interests were affected no trouble would result if lives and property were safe guarded.