Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 235, 23 December 1927, Page 9

Cable Jottings

RAIDS IN IRAQ.-—The Basra correspondent of “The Times” says a party of Wahabis attacked a nuniln'r of Iraqis and killed 70 of them. —Times. STUDENTS* RIOTS.—As the result of an inquiry into the riots at Jassy and Nagyvarad. when students maltreated Jew's and damaged property on November 1, five police superintendents have been dismissed.—Sun LLOYD GEORGES TRIP. Mr. Lloyd George, who is accompanied his wife, son, daughter, and daughter-in-law, left London on Wednesda/ for -Rio de Janeiro. The party expects to return to London on January 25. British Official Wireless. PALACE BURNED.—The magnifi - cent palace of Count Tarnowsky at Warsaw has been destroyed by fire. The building contained a famous collection of old masters and historical documents. —A. and N.Z. ANCIENT ALLIES.—In the House of Commons Sir Austen Chamberlain. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in answer to a question, said the Government had ever:/ intention of maintaining Britain’s ancient alliance with Portugal.—A. and N.Z.-Sun. JAPAN SENDS CRUISER. The Japanese cruiser Nagara is leaving Tokio for Tsingtao with a landing party of bluejackets on board. The authorities assert that the step is merely to double the assurance of safety of Japan’s interests and many subjects in Shantung, in view of China’s entire inability to afford protection to either her own property or to foreign lives.—A. and N.Z. I MAKERS OF STRIFE. —Before j-. concluded the Communist Congress at Moscow passed a resolution that one of the most important tasks remaining was to embitter the struggle within the English and European trades unions. Among the ‘promising’ features noted were an alleged increase iin industrial difficulties in England and , better prospects of class warfare with 1 the increase of unemployment.—A. aoil N-Z.