CABLEGRAMS.

Otaki Mail, 4 May 1923, Page 4

CABLEGRAMS.

DOMINION'S WIRELESS. LONDON, May 2. In the Commons Sir Joynson Hicks, replying to a question relating to the Dominion and wireless, said South Africa, Canada and Australia had contributed for its service but the policies of New Zealand and India had not been settled. WRECKED AMY TURNER. FOUR SURVIVORS REACH PORT. MANILA. May 1. Charles West and three other survivors from the Amy Turner, have reached S.urigao, whence they are proceeding to Manila. MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS.

CONFLICT WITH AUTHORITY. ! PARIS, May 2. 1 In connection with the May Day demonstration four police were hem- ■ med in a crowd near the Labour head- • quarters. One of them was stabbed . crowd. The conflict lasted half an hour, several being injured. i MADRID, May 2.

Thousands of workers participated j in the May Dav demonstrations. All j was orderly till, when dispersing, a group of demonstrators came into con-1 flict with the police. An ugly situa-l tton developed and the police fired and killed and wounded two. LABOUR'S CHARTER. MOVEMENT FOR REPEAL. LONDON, May 2. Colonel Hurst. (Conservative) introducing a Bill in the Commons for the repeal of the Trades Disputes Act, 1006, said thai the Act had caused not only a great amount of unemployment but an incalculable amount of human misery. The clause which sanctioned picketing was only a cloak \ for intimidation and violence. Mr J. H. Thomas said the Act was responsible for the creation of the I abour Party. Tf the other side wanted to hasten the day when Labour should pro over to the Treasury benches, Colonel Hurst should persuade the I Government to !-'ive every facility for I the passage of (lie repeal Bill. OONDEMNED IN ADVANCE. GERMANY'S NEW OFFER. * PARIS. May ?. i The newspapers generally condemn 'in advance Germany's new reparationnote, which they regard ns merely an • effort to improve Germany's position !in the eyes of America and Britain. "Le Journal' - declares France and i Belgium require but one thing from I Germany, that is the acceptance" of the [debt payments fixed in Mav, 1921.

FRANCE WILL WITHDRAW. TURKISH CONCENTRATION 3 CONTINUE. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 2. France has threatened to withdraw from Lausanne unless 'he Turkish concentrations in Syria are abandoned. POVERTY IN BERLIN. MANY SUICIDES RESULT. LONDON, May 2. The "Daily Chronicle" reports that eleven persons suicided in Berlin on Sunday, seven men and four women. Poverty was the reason in most cases. The increasing privation among

certain .classes is indicated by the great swarm of beggars in the streets, mostly elderly middles-class people. EGYPTIAN OUTRAGES. HIGH PERSONAGES IMPLICATED.

I CAIRO, Mav 1 J At the conspiracy case hearing a I 'witness, who turned King's evidence, alleged that three well-known members of Zaghloulist executive—El Basel Bey, Abd e] Nur Bey, and sheikh i Khayyati—paid for the recent Cairo 1 murders. Nur and Khayyati are al--5 ready under detention for connection j with the manifesto preceding the last 1 bombing outrage at the barracks. i WORKERS' COMMONWEALTH. LABOUR'S LATEST CRY. LONDON", Mav 2. The Hyde Park Mav Dav demonstrations adopted a resolution in favour or a workers- commonwealth. PEACE WHERE THERE IS NO PEACE THE OUTRAGES CONTINUE IV IRELAND r . LONDON. Mav 2. Despite De Valera's proffered armistice a dozen armed raiders surrounded Michael Reynold's farm at Clooneaghy, seeking Revnold's =on an ex-member of the Royal Irish'constabulary, when the farmer refused to open his door, the raiders 6hot through it and killed ' Remolds instantly. They then bombed the house.

VARIOUS ALTERNATIVES

T - ~ CONDON, Mav I. The Daily Telegraph's" Berlin corman°VA?? ■ unde /stands ' haT «ie German Note m substance reverts to the Bergmann plan, u will offer a fixed preliminary payment of twentv milfit 1 ".? 5 t 0 be ra ised by a loan. ' Germany proposed to pay interest on the wnoie of This amount even though onu- a portion 'will be subscribed. She a«K3 :or a moratorium for four vears and that she be allowed to retain 'from 'he proceeds of the loan sufficient to pay the interest on the who];* arncTant during this period, the remainder beL ing handed to the Reparations Commission. With regard to further payments three alternative proposals are put forward: (1) That tiro additions] sums of five milliards each should be 'forthcoming according to the Bergmann scheme, -2' That a scheme of variable payments should be drafted by an international commission composed as Mr Bonar Law suggested ■ 1 (3) that the matter b» referred to art international commission of some other composition. Germany undertakes to provide iegis' lative c-nd administrative mEasures to enforce any guarantee of private finance of industry or agriculture. It, is pointed out that as the whole of the Government property is already' pledged as a guarantee under the Peace Treaty it follows that the railway revenue could not be offered as security to the banking consortium without the permission of the signa tories to the Tnaty. The alternatives offered in regard to France's security against attack are: Firstly. "Germany's original proposal i communicated through America with ' however, the elimination of the mutual, pledge: secondly, that France and I Germany should arrange a teeatv, governing the point; thirdly, that ail arbitration treaty should be arranged similar to tie -Angle-American Rsal-

Ty, if nana of ilias* are accepteMs It is suggested that the safety of the . frontiers should be entrusted to an . international body such as the Rhine ■ Commission. | Germany demands the evacuation of i the Ruhr, though this is not put forward as the basis of negotiation and . also that all persons arrested or in exile should be released ad restored to their homes.