NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 23 November 1927, Page 7

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

CABLES IN BRIEF,

Mississippi Law: The Supreme Court at Washington has handed down a decision declaring constitutional the Mississippi law which excludes Chinese from, board schools in that State, on the ground that Chinese are not members of a white race. Cancer Research: Harold and Norman Sutcliffe, the inheritors of £1.250.000 from the late James Sutcliffe Thomas, have purchased’ Lumby Hall and a farm of 21 acres, and are presenting it to the Yorkshire Cancer Research Council to extend experiments from guinea-pigs and' fowls to larger animals, especially Pigs. Unemployment Insurance: In the House of Commons the whole evening was occupied in committee on the Unemployed Insurance Bill, to which the Labourites had tabled 10 pages of amendments. All the opposition .was based on the view that the reduction of unemployment benefits will inevitably result in the unemployed being forced to seek poor law relief . Finally the closure was moved and the clause was carried by 224 to 137. Loan for Manchurian Railway: It is understood the United States Department is considering the question of a possible loan bv American bankers to the South Manchurian railways. Should the department decide to sanction the loan, it is understood’ Japan will be informed that she must continue to respect the open door policy in China and afford other nations equality of treatment on the railways as regards passenger and freight facilities. Foot and Mouth Disease: The worst outbreak of foot and mouth disease experienced for years is sweeping ove the New Forest area. England. Numerous towns and parishes are affected. Forest ponies are roaming wild carrying the infection. and even motorists are nicking up germs on their wheels. It is thought that troops armed with Lewis guns may be necessary to exterminate deer. Russian Oil Products: Despite the protest of the Royal Dutch Shell group. _ the Standard Oil Company. New York, has entered into a new contract for the purchase of a large quantity of Russian oil products to supply its markets in th" Near East. The contract calls for the delivery of a minimum of 360,000 tons of oil over a period of six years and .s the third agreement which the Standard has made since last December. It is understood the Standard’s purchases of Russian oil will amount to 1,400.000 tons yearly during the life .of the thre contracts. Opinion here is that the new agreement foreshadows a bitter contest for supremacy in foreign oil markets. Imperial Airways Finance; Imperial Airways' report to March 31, just issued for the first time, shows a profit of £11,461, compared with a loss of £20,414 in the previous rear. Tariff on the regular European services increased 26 per cent, and the revenue therefrom 39 per cent. The company to date has carried 52.0(H) passengers 2,500,000 miles without injury to .a single passenger. The fleet consists of twentv machines, whereof nine are classed as of the most modern design. The iinproveil finances are attributed to the reduction of operating costs.

F.ture of Canada; “Canada is on the threshold of one of the most astonishing eras of expansion and development the world has ever known. Exactly how long she will he crossing the threshold it is impossible to say, but she will cross during the lifetime of many present and. indeed. she may have crossed already,” said the Prince of Wales at a Canadian Club , dinner. “She still needs good brains, good money and 1 good work and she wants them British.” Mr Baldwin urged that Canadians should not be in too much of a hurry. . “What does it matter whether is is 100 years or 2(Xi more before your country is full. Build up with the. best and see that the coming generations are in no way inferior to the present.” Sydney City Council: The NewSouth Wales Assembly, amid stormy scenes and fierce opposition from the Labourites, read the second time, by 45 to 40, the bill for replacing the City Council by the appointment of a commission. A New Harbour; It is expected that the great deep-water harbour which, for the past five years, has been building at Takoradi, in the Gold Coast, a Colony of West Africa, will be formally opened to traffic next March. Hitherto all exports from the colony have had to be carried down to open roadsteads, and steamers lying sometimes two miles off to sea have been loaded from open surf boats. The new harbour at Takoradi was undertaken at a cost, found from the revenue of the colony, of £3,250,000. Attack on Iraq: The Wahabi Sheikh. Feisal Eddowish. is reported to be concentrating 6000 tribesmen for a bigger attack on Iraq, alleging that the frontier between Iraq ami the Emirate of Nejd is inadequately surveyed. Ammunition and barbed wire have been hastily convoyed to police posts, and bombing ’planes are keeping an incessant watch. One crashed in flames and the two occupants were incinerated. Commonwealth Loan: The “Morning Post” understands that the underwriting will take place to-day of a Commonwealth loan of £7,000,000 at five per cent., issuing at £971 and redeemable in 1945-75. This represents the raising of fresh money required by both the Commonwealth and Certain States, and is in accordance with the new and better system of co-ordinating Australian borrowing. British Phy»iue; Dean Inlee, leetururing to the Science Guild on birth control, said that if it was plain there was no room for large families, citizens must act in accordance with their duty to children and the country but they must recognise the risk of inferior immigrants rilling up over-prudent Englishmen’s places. “That has happened in the United States,” the Dean said. “We cannot view without apprehension the unrestricted influx of low grade Irish in Liverpool or Glasgow and the West of Scotland. The miserable British physiue is unparalleled in Europe. The French and Germans are superior to the British as a whole, though the upper class Englishman is still a tine animal. 'lT>o cultivation of bodily perfection should be more widely encouraged.’’-' 1