LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1930, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS

LEAGUE OF NATIONS. CONTROL OF SECRETARIAT. LONDON, Aug. 10. Italy has launched a spirited attack on the so-called “Ahglo-fi rench Hegemony” of the League of Nations secretariat (says the Geneva, correspondent of the Manchester Guardian;. A report attacks the British conception that the secretariat should be a kind of international civil service, the members of which would in no way be dependent upon or responsible to their Governments, and declares that the specialists who. should form the cadres of the secretariat would not attach importance to permanence or wish to pass their lives in an international bureauracy. “Whereas good officials do not fear their contracts will not be renewed, the Italian Government views with disquiet the possibility of a mediocre official incapable of elimination,” says the report. Referring to the higher positions, Italy contends that 40 per cent, are held by Britain and Frame, and considers intolerable the alleged domination of the two-man combination of Sir James Eric Drummond (Secretarygeneral) and AT. Avenol (Deputy Secre-tary-general). <

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA. PEASANTS HOLDING GRAIN. RIGA, August 20. The refusal of Russian peasants to deliver the grain crop is perturbing the Soviet. Only a quarter of the stipulated quantity was delivered: in the first half of August, the peasants hoping to sell concealed grain privately. Government agents discovered, a quantity of grain hidden in the lower Volga district, but the peasants set fire to the bulk of .it, the. agents saving only a small proportion. Eighteen peasants were then shot without trial. Black Sea and Central Asian peasants are burning their crops wholesale in preference to delivering them to the Soviet agents, with whom they are waging: desperate warfare. The Government, considering the employment of the Red Army impolitic, is despatching punitive expeditions, consisting of Qgpu (secret police) and military and young Communist pioneers, forcibly to collect the crops.

LIFE OF ADVENTURE. Dll S. S. BROOMFIELD. LONDON, Aug. 19. Fifty-four years ago Dr Sidney Spencer Broomfieldj who is now 83, found gold in New Guinea. He hopes to return for more prospecting. Dr Broomfield told the Daily Mail that he went ivory limiting in Africa in 1888, and soon came in conflict with Arqbs who were raiding for ivory and slaves, He 1 met one Arab oaravan w ith 157 women ana children slaves, He released the slaves and took the ivory, Sometimes he was forced to hang Arabs and natives, He shot four natives in Mashonaland and was arrested. He escaped, was re-arrested, and finally was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. He seized a horse while he was working on a road and escaped. As he galloped down a street in Salisbury, Rhodesia, he saw Cecil Rhodes and Dr Jamieson riding up. They drew aside to let him pass, and he heard Dr Jamieson shout “Good luck!”

BEAT STORMS

SHAMROCK’S OCEAN CROSSING

NEW YORK, Aug. 22

Lost from her convoy for days at a time on the storm-tossed Atlantic, beating against adverse winds, and riding out gales which would have taxed the seaworthiness of far stauncher craft, the slender racing yacht, Shamrock V., the challenger for the America Cup, weathered the difficult 4200 miles voyage, and now lies alongside a Thames River pier. To look at the graceful green challenger, one would never imagine that she had been nearly a month on an ocean voyage.

The yacht made the crossing in 26 days, one day better than her predecessor, Shamrock TV.