Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 431, 13 August 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

ATTACK FROM THE AIR. —Three hundred British airplanes will' take part in the coming week’s night manoeuvres. There is to be a bombing attack on the London defences.— U.S. SINGAPORE BASE.—The Admiralty officially denies a statement to the effect that the contract for the Singapore naval base has been postponed Pending the signing of the Kellogg pact.—A.P.A.-U.S. CANADIAN STATISTICS. Canada’s revenue for the first four months of this year increased £2,600,000, and expenditure increased £BOO,OOO. The total revenue is over £33,600,000 and the total expenditure £21,400,000. The population is estimated at 9,680,000, an increase of 139,000 on last year.—A.P.A. BARDS OF WALES.—There were jnspiring scenes at the Eisteddfod, the Welsh national bardic festival, at Treorchy, Glamorganshire, when 200 Welsh people from Australia, New Zealand and other Dominions took the Platform. They were greeted with salvoes of cheering by the 15,000 spectators as they assembled in the Pavilion. Songs of welcome followed. —A.P.A. NEW GERMAN WARSHIP. —The German Cabinet has decided upon the construction of the 10,000 ton cruiser w hich the Socialist members had Previously opposed. The Socialists’ surrender to the People’s Party and tceir Catholic colleagues was facilitated an agreement that the money for the cruiser should be secured through the curtailment of the estimates for the Navy and Army.—A.P.A. WILL STALEN FALL? —Mystery is associated with the departure of M dictator and secretary of the Communist Party in Russia, from Moscow for the Caucasus. He is reported to have gone there to undergo a cure. Reports are reaching Paris that M. Stalin’s fall is imminent. M. Bukharin, the chairman of the Third (Communlst) International, is his most likely successor.— A.P.A.