GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1922, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

INDIAN AIR FORCE. Delhi, August 21. Air Vice-Marshal Sir John Salmond, who has been touring on the. frontier, states that India is woefully behind the times as egard« a : force equipment, but : s improv ing, and a few months will see 70 active machines. He is of opinion that 100 active machines with reserves will meet, the requirements of the frontier. The bomb supply is ample. Further, he said that an efficient air force on the frontier would be able to cope with recalcit~ant tribes more effectively and economically than the military forces in the last 70 years. Air-Marshal Salmond leaves for Mesopotamia at the beginning of September, to take command of all the forces. SETTLING INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES London, August 2L Sir George Parish, speaking at a League of Nations demonstration, urged .that outstanding international controversies should be immediately referred to the League, in which Russia and Germany should be included. The world should come to the assistance of Eurooe. Every nation capable of lending should lend. Sir George Parish declared that the policy of France was uniting Russia and Germany. ALLIES’ WAR DEBTS. Paris, August 21. The Matin suggests that M. Poincare at the London Conference assured the Allies that France would not make any demand for debts due by the Allies to her, whatever was the outcome of Lord Balfour’s Note. The newspaper advocates that the debtors should meet at Paris as a reply to Lord Balfour’s Note and request Britain to grant them a moratorium. M. Listegrie, addressing journalists, declared that the Balfour Note had paralysed the conference.