GENERAL CABLES.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15310, 10 August 1923, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

HORSE AND FOREIGN.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, August 7. Mass picketing of London docks is preventing many men from returning to work. The Transport Workers' Federation declares that the dockers en anxious to resume, but picketing . amounts to sheer terrorism. Tilbury is normal.

The Morning Post complains of *he Soviet Government's refusal to allow the Times, Morning Post, and Daily Mail to enter Russia. The Foreien Office has received official intimation that -the Russian Soviet Government has cancelled the appointment of M. -Rakovskyto succeed M. Kraasin as head of the Russian trade mission in London. Sir Joseph Cook, High Commissioner for Australia, has returned from Geneva In an interview he .stated that the reports of New Guinea and Nauru were passed by the Mandates Commission without remark. The king's yacht Britannia won ibhe squadron prize at Cowes for yachts ■of 50 ions and over, sailing Over a course of 40 miles.. In order to encourage the use of 30cwt motor-lorries fitted with pneumatic tvres, the War'Office offers to ■subsidise purchasers of approved British vehicles .to the extent of £4O a year, the Government . to have the right to purchase the- lorries in times of stress at fixed prices. ' ' LISBON, August 7.

-,The National Assembly elected, by 121' votes, Senhbr M. Teixeiro-Gomes, at present Portuguese Minister in London to be President of the Republic of. Portugal. He is a warm friend of Britain. ' . ~ CONSTANTINOPLE, August 7. Socialists here are preparing a great reception for Mr. Ramsay MacDonald; the British Labour leader, who is to arrive on August 24. Later Mr. MacDonald will visit Mustapha Kemal at Angora. . PARIS,. August 7.

The' British'decision to establish a naval base at Singapore is believed to be the reason that has prompted the French Government- to increase its naval power in the Far East. A reconsfcitution of the-Ear Eastern division of the French Navy, is reported. It will probably consist" of two large armed cruisers, light'craft; :mlne-layers, a des troyer flotilla, and, two squadrons of seaplan.es. . , , . .. _. ■The official trade report for the last half-year shows -increased imports and exports, imports from Britain '■■totalled 3,015,000i000 francs, com- . pared with 1,943,000,000 francs in the corresponding period of 1922. Exports to Britain totalled 3,634,000,000 francs, compared -with 1,601,000,000 francs last year-'Only 1,549,680 tons-of fuel were received from Germany, compared with- 4",238,366 tons in the first half-year of 1922.