CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1922, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A ROCKFELLER GIFT: LONDON, Fbh: 23: The Ministry’of Health announces the acceptance of the Rockfeller Gift of two .million dollars towards equipping a School of Hygiene. THE MARRIAGE. (Received This Day at r. 30 a.m.) LONDON, February 22. The Royal Marriage ceremony will commence at 11.30. FRANCE AND BRITAIN. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) PARIS, February 23. The “Petit Parisian” referring to the conference pending between Poincaire and Lloyd George says that agreements have been reached on the following points—The Peace Treaty will not be discussed at Genoa. The League of Nations will deal with' all questions not dealt with by Genoa Conference, which will 'be postponed for several weeks, Soviets participation will not lead to legal recognition by France, but an economic agreement may lie concluded in order to establish commercial relations. The principal point of divergence between France and Britain is the recognitioh of the Soviet: Britain desires an immediate recognition and France favours a conditional postponed recognition.

FOUR-POWER TREATY. WASHINGTON, Feb- 22

Senator Lodge is appealing to president Harding in an effort to stave off the adoption of the proposed reservations regarding the Four Power Pacific Treaty. Senator Lodge has also prevented a vote being taken by the U.S.A. Foreign Relations Committee on Senator Brandegie’s reservations iby announcing that he wanted to discuss' the Feservations with the President. ITALIAN POLITICAL CRISIS. ROME, Feb. 22. The Italian political crisis has now lasted for three-weeks, which is a. record in Italian Parliamentary history. No solution is. Vet visible.

Signor Giolitti has definitely refused to fonit a Cabinet, while the Catholic Party are opposed to him. Signor Orlando ahd Signor Deliicoltt refuse to loriii ri triuiiiviriite with him.

Another triumvirate is proposed, with Orlando its Premier, ayd Sigiiori Denicola, Nome, and Tfttoni, the latter as Foreign Affairs Minister, blit Signer Tittoni is in poor health. Newspapers angrily comment oil the Catholic Party as being a.ii obstacle to ft settlement;

U.S.A. RESERVATIONS. WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. Senator Johnson lias presented to t’U.S.A. Foreign Relations Committee proposals for reservations to the Pacific Treaty, which limit the signatory Powers’ rights to “rights that are not disputed by any other Power,” affirming also that it shall be understood in any present or future dispute. regarding the validity of the rights, that the -)j Powers may reserve full liberty of judgment.

BRITISH DIRIGIBLE DISASTER. " NEW YORK, February 23.

The Times Washington correspondent states: A report has been submitted to the Air Ministry in London by the Aeronautical Research Committee. which declares that the loss of the British dirigible R 38 in August 1921. was due to structural weakness in the design. Tt also says R 38 was considerably weaker than the R. 33, a smaller airship. It adds that- no cal- | dilation had been made to the aerodynamic (forces whereto the airship would lie subjected. The calculations made by the British Design staff were therefore misleading. Neither weak nor faulty material caused the accident. This report has not yet been published in (London, being held there as confidential, but a copy of it has been obtained by the New York Times.