NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 8 December 1927, Page 8

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

CABLES LN BRIEF. No Betting on Dogs: The Victorian Assembly passed a bill prohibiting betting at mechanical hare coursing meetings.

Max Linder’s Daughter: The Paris Court placed Max Linder's daughter in the custody of Maurice Lauvielle, conforming with the provisions of the will, also of Linder’s letters.

Caught By Ice: Aeroplanes from Astrakhan sent to search, found 300 fishing boats held up by ice-floes on the Caspian Sea. Fifteen are missing and about 50 fishermen are believed to have been lost. Steps are being taken to rescue the remainder.

Censure Motion: The House of Commons completed the committee stage of the Unemployed Insurance Bill. Mr. MacDonald’s coal censure motion will be taken to-day. On the motion for the adjournment, Mr. Saklatvala complained that he had been refused a passport for India. Earl Winterton, quoting Mr, Saklatvala’s inflammable speeches on his last visit to India, said it was proposed to continue the embargo. The House adjourned.

Tarin Restrictions: M. Collin (Hol. land) read to the Council of the League the report of the international, conference on the abolition of the import-and export restriction. The Council decided to give a n opportunity to tne Soviet. Mexico and other nonmember States to adhere to the convention which. M Collin said, was signed at present by 19 States. He added that the convention will become effective in 1929. and should result in an immediate improvement in trade conditions.

The Litvinon Interview: The outstanding impression in League eircles regarding the Litvinoff interview is not that it was abortive, which was inevitable, but the fact that the Soviet climbed down to making the contact. It is generally considered to be a prelude to further advances, this time together with guarantees, and virtually expresses the beginning of modification of the Soviet policy in the direction of the Western civilised States.

Engineering Council: A joint meeting is to be held between representatives of the engineering trades in London and an important group of engineering employers to discuss » scheme for setting up a joint engineering council for the metropolitan area This is the outcome of the movement to secure better relations between employers and employed

Liverpool's Biggest Dock: rh& Gladstone graving Wock. which is tne first completed section of the new system of docks at Liverpool, has now been thrown open to shipping. The dock is the largest permanent drv dock in the world nnd ran he used as a wet dock when reouired. There is adequate space to allow a vessel of 1000 feet to manoeuvre from the vestibule into the dock