AEERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1925, Page 2

AEERICAN CABLE NEWS.

I Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] PEACE OF TDK WORM). A GENERAL'S PLAN. ifi-'ceived this day at 8 a.m.) WASHINGTON. Oct G. At the I nter-Parliameutary Union, General F. h. Speers (Great Britain) submitted a plan for eliminating the risk of war. hi' proposal being the establishment of a zone between neighbouring nations in which no troops or fortifications would be permitted and across which no armed force, might ' a',. He cited the successful example, of the detnilitaried zone. Tito idea was like the agreements between Britain and the United States regarding the protection of the American and Canadian border, and that reached in 190." between Norway and Sweden. The League of Nations furnished tho instrument by which it would bo possible to guarantee a strip of territory. General Speers asserted the problems of Europe were not ns far removed from those of the Pacific ns the mileage indicated. The French ami German delegates favoured General Speer’s propose I. U S A PATHOL BOAT SINKING. NEW YORK. Oct. G. The coastguard patrol boat No. 101 wits reported to be sinking cue hundred miles off the coast of New Jerscv ill a wireless tnes-age sent by a steamer in the vieinitv.