Round the World

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 142, 18 July 1929, Page 2

Round the World

VARJOUS HAPPENINGS GABLE ITEMS QF GENERAL INTEREST, By Telegraph— Press Association— Oopyrigiit British Cotton Crisis. The British Government has intervened in the cotton crisis. Belegates representing tJie employers' organisations are attending at the Ministry of Labour. Transport Sunk. Thirty-iune persons were drowned by the sinking of the Cliilean transport Abtac off Valparaiso (Chile), on Tues(Jay. Only one was rescued. A storm raged ali day. Reparations Proposals. The Times' Paris correspondent states that, making it a question of confidence, the Government ivon the first division on the reparations agreement proposals in the Chamber of Deputics by 304 votes to 239. Bremeo's Maiden Voyage, 'Ihe new German liner Bremen has started from Bremerhaven on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic, carrying 1800 passengers. The directors sav thej-e is no intention of attacking"^ the Mauretania's record on the first voyage. Aeroplane Show, The Prince of Wales opened the greatesb aeroplane show in the world' s history at Olympia. There were representative exbibits from every air power in the world, from baby private mac-hines to giant triplanes engined as land and water machines. Bowling Carnivai, At the Suva bowling carnivai the pairs championship was won bv Roscoe and Froggart (Invercargill) from Brown and Morgan (Christchurch), 20 to 7. The Pacific Singles championship was won by W. Brown (Christchurch) from I. Woolf (Christchurch) 22 to 14. The iinal for the Pineapple Cup was won by S. Pickett (Levuka) from W. Spiers (Suva), 21 to 17 . On The Rhine. Asked whether any instructions hacl heen sent to the Britisli Army headquarters in the Rhine occupation zone as to the proposed arrangements for evacuation of the occupied territories, the Under-Secretary for War, Mr Shinweil, replied that definite instructions could not be issued until a decision had b'een reached regarding the evacuation-, hut arrangements which would then he necessary had naturally been considered by the War Office in conjunction with tbe General Officer Commanding in Chief of the British Army on +he Rhine.