NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 19 November 1927, Page 6

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

CABLES IN BRIEF.

Cln®ina BUI Passed.— The Cinematograph gill was read the third time in the House of Commons by 223 votes to 125.

Navy Meat Supplies— Colonel Headlam informed a questioner in the House of Commons that out of the meat supplied to the navy in 192 u Britain supplied one per cent and the dominions a 3 per cent. t foreign countries contributing the balance.- Part of foreign meat was bought at a time when dominion supplies were not obtainable. It was estimated that the purchase of Homo meat exclusively would cost an additional 210,000 monthly. (

Revision of Prayer Book.—The Ecclesiastical Committe o of Parliament decided by 21 to live that the revised Prayer Book does not affect prejudically the constitutional rights of His Majesty’s subjects; therefore the measure should proceed. It is generally thought it will be discussed -by paiiiameht early in December.

The Coal Question. —Mr Ramsay MacDonald, in an interview, statco; The simple question is: Will the Prime Minister speak on the coal situation. W e are willing to como to an accouimouaiion but w fl must Have a 1 discussion. 1 have never previously supported anything in the nature ,uf a row in the House of Commons, but Wednesday’s demonstration in my view, was justifiable.:”

Solomons Expedition.—Advices received in Sydney from Tulagai state that th B Adelaide has sailed for Australia. ike naval force and the majority of the civil volunteers have now evacuated Sinarango. No tighting has occurred so far. Two outlaws wor e killed, one wounded, and 12 captured.

National Debt.—Mr PtaurchUl, Chancellor of the Excheueu, replying to a question in the House of Commons. said th e amount of the national debt at March 31 last was £7.622 000,000. and the interest charged for the year ended March 31, was £316,000 - 000. The corresponding figures pe'r head of the population were £l6B Ils and £6 19s lid respectively. These figures, how’ever, taken by themselves would be misleading, since the nominal total afforded no measure of the burden of the debt, and thh interest figure for 1926-192/ was abnormally high, owing to the coal stoppage.

Air Routes.—Sir Samuel Hoare. in answer to questions in the House of Commons relating to proposed air routes to Australia and Cape Town stated that the service to Cairo and Basra was operating weekly each way, with 100 per cent efficiency. For die next stage to Karachi, Persia had not yet agreed to a route along the shores of the Persian Gulf. The Government of India was organising the lolte from Karachi to Calcutta. TheRoyal Air Force already had surveyed the link from Calcutta to Rangoon and Singapore. With reference to the South African routes, th e experimental service from Khartoum to Kisumu was interrupted owing to a mishap to a machine.