AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1928, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Australian Press Assn.—United Service STATUS OF EGYPT. WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. Considerable interest lias been aroused here concerning cabled reports from London on an ostensible AVashington report that Kellogg would shortly submit to the Egyptian Government a draft treaty of arbitration with the United States. Such treaties were signed to-day with Poland, Austria and Czecho-Slovakia, and while negotiations for similar compacts arc being conducted with thirty-seven other nations, there is little information available relative to the proposed Egvptin n-Americnn pact.

It is of course well understood hero that Egypt’s foreign relations constitute one of “Reserved Points,” under the declaration of 1922, and such arbitration treaty might treat Egypt as a sovereign state, but it is granted that Britain is not expected to make objections sinccs the United States also intends to include a separate arbitration treaty, with Canada, thus creating a precedent for making one with Egypt. It is felt that Britain has placed herself unequivocally on record a.s favouring the principles of arbitration, and is not likely to frown upon the United States efforts to provide such means of settlement of possible disputes with Egypt, although such disputes are extremely unlikely.

INFLUENZA RAMPANT. ''Received this day at 8 a.m.) VANCOUVER, August 17. Messages received 'from a radio set of a trapper on Mackenzie River reports an influenza epidemic which in two weeks has taken a toll of nearly three hundred natives from Fort Simpson to the Arctic coast,, a distance of a thousand miles. CANADIAN MIGRATION. OTTAWA, Aug. IG. The whole immigration question will be discussed at a conference opening on Friday between Lord Lovat, head of the Empire Settlement Board, and the .Minister of Immigration, Air Forke. NEWFOUNDLA ND AIINISTR Y. ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland, Aug. 16. The new Alinistry, under the Hon F. C. Allardyee. took office to-day. succeeding the Governmnet of the Hon. AValter Alotiroe, resigned. PASSENGERS REATOVED FROAI S.S. ECUADOR. SAN PEDRO, Aug. 16. All the passengers in the Ecuador were safely removed. The ship is expected to float at midnight on Thursday. CABLE SERVICE CONTROL. WINNIPEG, Aug. 17. “Once a. Labour Government is returned to power it will do all possible to place control of the Empire Cable Service back in the hands of the various governments,” declared Air Ramsay MacDonald in a speech here.