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Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1930, Page 2

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RUSSIAN DEBTS. . TREATY WITH BRITAIN. LONDON, October 9. Preliminary steps to a treaty which will be designed to resclve the long outstanding debt controversies' -between England and Russia were, taken in London. The members of the Anglo-Soviet

Debts and Claims Committee were received by the Foreign Secretary (Ur ; Arthur Henderson) at the Foreign Office. The Russian delegation was introduced by the. Soviet Ambassador in London (M. Sokolnikoff.) Afterwards the British and Russian delegations withdrew in order to make arrangements for the date and place- of future meetings. The Debts and Claims Committee is provided for in a protocol signed by Mr. Henderson and M. Dovgnlevsky on October 3 last year. . According to the terms of the protocol, a committee of experts was to meet in order to inquire into the whole question of claims .and counter-cLim.s as a Pecessary preliminary to a treaty in settlement of tne question, which is eventually to be, negotiated between

the Secretary for Foreign Affairs and tlm Soviet Ambassador in Loudon. ; The committee will meet ng-’in shortly to ; set - un, sub-committees for the purpose of dealing with details of the questions under discussion. GIVEN TURNIPS. / WHEN BREAD WAS ASKED. RIGA, October 9. ’Representatives cf the Leningrad anil ATosbowSoviets are considering the problems arising from the serious food position. - The Leningrad representatives have predicted grave disorders, unless the big cities are. better led. Secret police and military barely prevented big riots i when workmen refused 21b of turnips - or lib of oats instead of the bread ■ ration, and demanded the immediate cessation c-f grain : experts. . . It was'.decided that the Council .of : People’s Commissaries; must ■ immediate T ■ ly clSar up the position. i “Pravada” (Moscow Soviet organ) > admits that Russia is unable to deliver > large quantities of wheat sold for future • delivery, S'

CRICKET IDOL. BRADMAN STATUE FOR SYDNEY. LONDON, October 9. The erection of a Bradman statue in the Sydney Cricket Ground is contemplated by Australians in London, who have approached Air Guy Lynch, a Svdney-born sculptor. A ■ corirmittee lias been . formed, but owing , to the team’s early departure it was impossible finally to arrange matters. Air AVhitelaw, who gave Bradman £IOOO after, the Leeds Test, is willing to head the subscription list.. Air Lynch, interviewed for the “Sun,” : “I am eager to do the statue. The earliest Greeks idolised their- athletes, setting rn statues of them everywhere. There are two many statues of politmians and philanthropists in Australia. The public would surety welcome cricketers, footballers, and tennis players. Bradman is an obvious first choice. He would be an easy man to sculpture, having clear-'ut. features and a sturdy, well-developed

body. He has already been photographed, filmed, drawn, and painted, , and it is time he was sculptured.” My Lynch has finished a statue of Cleopatra on, the knees of Rome, which he is submitting to the Royal Academy for 1931. RELICS OF LIFE. MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO. ■ PEKING, October 9. Bringing a record “bag” of pre-his- . , *--4 , i 4 „• i* TP—

toric fossils, the Central Asiatic i-x----pedition led by Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, of the New'York Museum cf Natural History, lias returned from five months’ intensive exploration of the -Gobi Desert. Nearly 100 different species, many of which are new to science, are represented in the collection, which is expected to throw much new light upcv the evolution and dispersal of animal life millions of years ago. No human remains were discovered, but Dr. Andrews does not consider that this rules out the possibility that forerunners of the “Peking man” may yet be found in the Gobi region “We have simply been looking for a needle in a bundle of hay, and we have not yet found the needle.” Dr Andrews declared in announcing that negotiations .. i:-~ +V«o Phi HP'S G

were proceeding witn tne authorities for a continuation of the work in 1931. MODERN EXODUS. TRANS-MIGRATION IN AFRICA. ROME, October 9. In order to distinguish between loyal and rebel tribesmen and thus prevent rebels from obtaining food, money and arms, the Italian leader, General Grazjanj, has ordered the transfer of 80,000 people and 600,000 animals from tininterior of Cyrenaica to the coast. The trans-migration, which brgan early in September, has now been completed.. \ INDIES SERVICES. SIAM HALTS AERIAL SCHEME. WELTEVREDEN, October 9. After the flights from Holland to Java had been resuriied, the first aeroplane being already at Allahabad, .another hitch occurs, as the Siamese authorities have raised objections to the use of the Bangkok aerodrome. Ii negotiations are unsuccessful, the regular fortnightly flights will be stopped on January 1 TliO relations of Holland and ihe Dutch Indies with Siam being excellent, the Java Government, Press and people are surprised at the hold-up, though it is expected that an agreement may be reached. l GAELIC FURY? BOMB IN MAILBAG. LONDON, October 9. Postmen loading a mailvan at the central London sorting office at Mount Pleasant threw in a bag containing registered packages. A terrific, explosion wrecked the van and knocked down the postmen and a driver, who had just descended from his seat, which was shattered. The mailbag came from Belfast Scotland Yard detectives picked up ■ pieces of metal, believed to be parts , of a bomb. i L [ DEATH INTERVENED.

CHARWOMAN OF NOBLE BIRTH. TORONTO, October 9. Two years after her death the claim of a charwoman to noble birth has been definitely established. She was Eliza Sannagan, and her grave is to-,be marked indicating that she was a descendant of Mary Beeton, famous in Scottish song and story ps one. of Mary Queen of Scots’ four Marys.