CABLEGRAMS.

Western Star, 6 December 1935, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

PEACE PLANS. RENEWED HOPE. ARMISTICE SUGGESTED. MUSSOLINI MAY AGREE. LONDON, December 4. Renewed talk of peace plans in the face of oil sanction s against Italy fills the gap in the war news, which is con. fined to a small repulse of Abyssinian raiders and reports of a big imminent Abyssinian advance on Miakale. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail say s it is stated in well-informed circles that Signor Mussolini has made it known that he is ready to consider proposals for a definite peace settle, ment which would satisfy Italy’s honour and also give her a substantial ter. ritorial concessidn in some form or another. It is even thought that if satis, factory proposals emerge from M. Laval’s and Sir Samuel Hoare’s meeting Signor Mussolini himself might make a move towards peace. One report widely current in both Bourse • and diplomatic circles is that a three weeks’ armistice may be. acceptable to Signor Mussolini in which peace could be discussed and the oil embargo postponed.

Whitehall attaches importance to the meeting of Sir Samuel Hoare and M. Laval in Paris on Saturday The diplomatic correspondent of the Daily* Mail understands that Sir Samuel Hoare will be the bearer of proposals likely to reconcile the English and French views, enabling a better prospect of a settlement M. Laval is also in a position to make definite suggestions to Sir Samuel Hoare as a result of recent contiact s with Signor Musso. lini.

The Paris correspondent of Th e Times mentions the belief that Britain is inclined to favour a plan whereby Italy will receive some non-Amharic* lands possibly in the north-east, while Abyssinia receives access, to the sea. Both parties would come into absolute possession of newly-acquired territory. The diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Telegraph implies that while English and French experts in Paris are making progress with a peac© plan, it is not in a form submittable to Signor Mussolini. In the meantime there is abundant evidence from Italy of an up. heavel throughout the country ag a result of the war plus the action the Pow ers have either taken or are contemplating.

LATE PRINCESS VICTORIA SYMPATHY WITH THE KING. RESOLUTIONS IN PARLIAMENT RUGBY, December 4. When the debate in reply to thq address from the Throne was continued in the House of Commons the speeches dealt mainly with Home affairs mentioned in the King’s Speech. Foreigul affairs will be raised to-morrow. In both Houses the’ party leaders joined in an expression of deep sympathy with the King and the Royal . Family at the death of Princess Victoria. Addresses of condolence were -'unanimously passed. In the House of - Common s the resolution was moved by the Prime Minister. “It is no mere formal resolution to his Majesty,’.’ said Mr Baldwin, “but it goes from the heart of everyone here to their King and a man they revere.” ' Major C. R. Attlee, in seconding said : “We know that behind the King’s public appearance is a full family lif e and | /-4ve feel for him in the breach of those happy family relation s through the death of his sister. Sir Archibald Sinclair, leader of the Independent Liberals, remarked : “At Christmas we hear the King speaking to all the people of the Empire as a; father to his family. It is indeed as a! father that the British people have come to regard him. We therefore de from our hearts record our sympathy with our revered, beloved and sorrowing King.” TWO PRISON REVOLTS. LOSS OF LIFE IN AMERICA BATTLES. WITH POLICE. NEW YORK, December 4. Two prison revolts, in widely separated party of the country, ' were attended by the deaths of several persons and hard-fought pitched battles in the centre of two cities yesterday. One convict was killed and a civilian employee of the prison was bludgeoned to death. Three other convicts were wounded when five long-term convict s forced their way out Of the Massachusetts State prison at Boston. All five fugitives were recaptured, dead or alive, within two hours, but only after a wild chase by hundreds of policemen, firemen and prison guards, who were armed with rifles, riot guns and tear-gas bombs Six prisoners, members of the notorious Irish O’Malley gang of bank robbers, escaped from the Federal gaol at Muskogee (Oklahoma). They critically wounded the chief of the detectives and fled in a commandeered car. One of the convicts, however, was fatally wounded by prison guards. CRASH INTO CAMPERS. WOMAN KILLED BY AEROPLANE DAUGHTER SERIOUSLY INJURED SYDNEY. December 5. An aeroplane piloted bv Douglas Way. taking off from Crescent Hiead Reach, 310 miles north of Sydney, crashed into a partv of camners in a tent, killing Mrs Violet McKernan, aged 60, and seriously ‘ injuring her daughter Thelma, aged 23. Other campers had narrow escapes. The plane was wrecked and "Way and a companion sustained minor injuries. 3

FARMER MURDERED. RODY FOUND UNDER WOOD HEAR MEI MOURNE. DeccmlKi'r 5. l'eu,s that Luigi Marehesi, aged 60, farmer nf T.ilydde. '25 miles from Melbourne. who had been missing since November 10. had been murdered were confirmed lpte to-day when his body was fornd tinder a wood heap. His h n "i apparently been smashed with a spade t ’■■'li'’e are now searching for a. f >rm I’lhmirer. Marehesi was reported to h ive hail -I t.Mge sum of money hoarded iu the house.