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CABLES V RADIO.
Empire Conference in London.
PROBLEM OF COMPETITION.
Large Questions Of Strategy Involved.
PAN-AMERICANISM.
United States Policy Defended.
DEVELOPMENT OF FRIENDSHIP.
"Valuable And Instructive" Results) Anticipated.
THOMAS HARDY.
Impressive Funeral Rites.
SCENE IN ABBEY,
Greatest Figures In Literature Present.
Rugby, Yesterday.
Havana, Yesterday.
Rugby, Yesterday. Sir John Gilmour is presiding
Senor Gerardo Machado, Pre- H.M. the King, the Prince of to-day over the first meeting of sident of Cuba, and President Wales and the Duke of York will the conference ON cables and Coolidge will be the only speakers each be represented in West- wireless communication convened at the opening meeting of the minster Abbey to-day, where the by the Home Government and by Pan-American Conference at the ashes of Thomas Hardy are representatives of the Dominions, National Theatre, at which buried in the Poets' Corner, next India and the Crown Colonies. twenty-two nations will be repre- to the grave of Charles Dickens
Beam wireless services with
sented at the first Plenary and near the tombs of Johnson, Canada and Australia have raised
Goldsmith, Macaulay, Tennyson such formidable competition with Session on the 18th inst.
President Coolidge was wildly and Browning.-British Wireless the cables as to call for full con- sideration by representatives of ovated on his arrival at the Pre-Service.
Hundreda Wait in Rain. the sidential Palace and came out to the various Governments in Empire of the future relations of the balcony in response to the in-
London, Yesterday. the two services.
sistent demands of the huge Not since Dickens was borne to The presumed object will be to crowd, who threw their hats in the Abbey has there been such a ascertain how the interests of the the air. Reuter's American Ser-spontaneous cable services can be reconciled vice. with those of the newer medium; of Imperial communication.-Bri- tish Wireless Service.
U.S. & Latin-America.
Washington, Yesterday.
demonstration in honour of an English writer as was witnessed in Westminster Abbey to-day on the occasion of the interment of the ashes of Thomas Hardy in the Poets' Corn-
A Thorny Question.
Mr. Kellogg, in the "United London, Yesterday. States Daily" states that the The Empire Wireless Cable Con-Government's policy towards the er next to Dickens's resting place. Republics is Hundreds waited four hours in ference opened this afternoon un-Latin American
der the chairmanship of Sir John mutually beneficial and that co- the rain awaiting admission to Gilmour. Great Britain was re-operation at the Pan-American the 1,000 seats allotted to the presented by Sir John Gilmour and Conference can further a con- public.
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Mr. A. M. Samuel. All the other tinuation of the development of The greatest figures in litera- Dominions and India were repre- friendship, mutual understanding ture, art, and polities, and repre-modern kingdom-
and sympathy among western sentatives of various literary To-day's meeting was concerned hemisphere nations. The United societies, both British and Ameri- with procedure principally. B thorny question being whether re- States has every reason to be con- can, were present, also Mrs. gular communiquer should be fident that valuable and instruc- Hardy (widow) and Miss Kate issued to the Press or a single tive results will be achieved.- Hardy (sister of the novelist). statement at the end of the con- Reuter's American Service.
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Press Coniment.
Paris, Yesterday.
The casket hung on me nificent draperies was borne in procession to the catafalque accompanied by The prospects of the Pan-the pall-bearers.
At the conclusion of a 80 include large questions of strategy American Conference are being minutes' service the congregation apart from the immediate subicct freely discussed in the papers.
The proceedings will be con- fidential
the discussions will 18
Dominions with reference to the
of an agreement between cables "L'Avenir says that President filed past the grave in which the and wireless. Considerable cor-Coolidge has gone to Havana in copper casket was just visible a respondence passed between the assurance that his august pre- few inches under the floor, bearing Canada and Great Britain and the sense will impress the Assembly, a sheaf of blies from his widow. If that does not suffice Mr. Earth contributed by an aged re- agenda of the conference owing Wilbur, who has just asked Con-sident of Stinsford ("Mellstock" to the difference in relationship of gress for 43 cruisers, will come on of the dead authors' novels) was local telegraphs between Canada The scene.
sprinkled on the grave. and other governments, but the
Simultaneously Thomas Hardy's "Le Journal" says the United difficulties were now smoothed out.
heart was buried close to his States has been fully cautioned father, mother, and first wife at -Reuter.
against open intervention of op- London, later. ponents of its foreign policy, and Stinsford, a most homely service
In
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centred on the terms of reference, members very partial to a forceful agers, with the village choir sing. A famous dancer in a romance of the tropics—
which were finally framed as fol- method.
ing deceased's favourite hymns to
lows: "To examine the situation The "Petit Parisien" surmises the accompaniment of
resulting from the competition of that Conference may agree to a beam and cables and make recom-vague formula, which simultane- mendations with a view to a comously respects principles and mon policy."Reuter,
the material and financial power
Delegates Welcomed.
Rugby, Yesterday. Opening the Imperial Wireless and Cable Conference in London to-day Sir John Gilmour (Chair-
of the United States.-Reuter.
Coolidge Address.
Havana, Yesterday.
monium.-Reuter.
a har-
Last Tributes,
Rugby, Yesterday. Westminster Abbey was filled with mourners when the ashes of Thomas Hardy were buried this afternoon in the Poets' Corner. Great figures in literature and The material prosperity of the art were among many disting man) extended a hearty wel Americas was the greatest and uished men and women who oc- come on behalf of His Majesty's most widely distributed in the his- cupled the north and south tran- Government to the representatives tory of the human race, said Pre-septs, whilst 1,000 of the general from overseas, many of whom had sident Coolidge in addressing the public
were assembled in the: travelled long distances and had
Pan-American Conference. "Anave. absented themselves from activi-
Wireless Service.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
tics and occupations from which determination to adjust our dif- Large numbers of admirers of they could ill be spared. He references not by resort to force, the great writer, unable to gain. minded the conference that it had but by the application of the prin-admission, stood outside bare- been summoned: "to examine the ciples of justice and equity, is one headed in silent reverence whilst situation which has arisen as a of our greatest characteristics." the service was in progress. result of competition of beam wire- He referred to their most sacred
His Majesty the King, H.R.H. lens with cable services, to report trust the expansion of the spirit Prince of Wales, and H.R.H. the Chereens and make recommenda- of democracy and their devotion Duke of York were represented. tions with a view to a common to the policy of peace: "We all
As pall-bearers, the Premier and policy being adopted by the various nourished the commendable senti- Mr. Ramsay MacDonald paid a Governments concerned."-Britishment of moderate preparation for last tribute to the great author on national defence." He declared behalf of the State, whilst Mr. that the whole world ought to be Rudyard Kipling, Mr. Bernard profoundly grateful for the moral Shaw, Sir James Barrie, Sir power and strength of character Edmund Gosse, and John Gals- demonstrated by the statesman-worthy represented literature: ship of the South American Re- Whilst this service was being publics.
conducted with that impressive- The maintenance and expan-ress and majesty always associat-] sion of these principles, was the ed with Westminster Abbey, an- purpose of the Pan-American Con- other service of the utmost sim- ferences, in which all 'nations re-plicity was taking place at Stins-Dentist.
ford, in Wessex, where, as The "Berliner Tageblatt" pub-presented stand exactly equal, lishes a telegram from Moscow
Cultural Ties.
symbolic act, the writer's heart dated January 14, stating that the Government's final decision as re- the need for a better exchange of
President Coolidge emphasised was being buried.
Whilst the congregation at
RED EXILES.
-- FATE OF TROTSKY AND
CO.
RUSSIAN PRESS SILENT,
Berlin, Yesterday.
Wireless
a
gards the banishment of members. news service to promote inter-Westminster mourned Thomas of the Opposition was delayed ow-
He Hardy as a genius, the villagers ing to their protest against the ex- American understanding. puleion order and a demand for a mentioned that communications assembled at Stinsford Church clear statement regarding their by means of shipping- and rail- were there to mourn him rather future treatment.
ways had greatly improved during as a friend. A score of greyhair- The Opposition leaders submitted the past decade, and he would asked men had known the author as an architect's conditions which they would volun- Congress to authorise the sending plain Hardy, tartly leave Moscow.
of engineering.advisers to assist apprentice. - British The Soviet Central Committee in building ronds, whilst cultural Service. promptly replied, informing Trotsky and commercial ties would be and Rakovsky that they would be closer the result Aviation ser- ing all our people more definitely 4.80 p.m. deported for counter-revolutionary,
activities, the former before Jan-vices, which Congress was at pre- and more completely under the uary 16 to Wierny on the Chinese sent considering with the Amerl-reign of a law laying on us all a Turkestan frontier, and the latter to cas, were now complementing one continental responsibility." Astrakan; Radek to Freorajenski; another. Agricultural and indus- Pan-Americanism Defined. others to the Urals, where the trial production to an unusual. At the opening of the Pan- Police will give them further in- degree" was resulting in increas- American Conference President structions; and Kamenoff and Zino- ing the exchange of commodities, Machado defined Pan-American- viaff to Penes and Tanboff, respec- in connection with which he paid ism as a constructive work not tively,
a tribute to the efforts of the Fan- implying antagonism, but, on the Fifty members of the Opposition American Union. contrary, co-operating for univer were deported last week.
There
In concluding he referred to the sal peace, a better understanding have also been numerous deporta-even more significant results in between all peoples, and the spirit tions in the provinces.
The Russian Press is so far silent connection with political rela- ual and moral unity of the nations as regards the deportations Reu- tions." If these conferences of the world."--Reuter's Amer]-
mean anything they mean bring can Service,
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