NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 November 1924, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

EMPIRE EXHIBITION. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Nov. 11. The Prince of Wales sent a letter to the Duke of Devonshire at the close of the 1924 session of the Empire Exhibition, thanking all who assisted in the organisation of the great Imperial enterprise. He trusts the guarantors will not be called upon to make an undue sacrifice on account of their patriotism. NO TITLES IN FRANCE. LONDON, Nov. 11. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Herald (the Labour paper) -states that, the grotesque anomaly of a Republic tolerating titles is to he ended. The Minister of Justice has introduced a Bill making it an offence to confer titles of nobility or to use them in any document. Out of 60,000 hearers of titles of all kinds in 1887 hardly onethird of them had a. right to such. The ■actual descendants of the pre-revolution aristocracy were a mer© handful.

DEATH OF SENATOR LODGE. . . NEW YORK,,Nov. 11. The British Consul-General at Boston (Mr. Gray) has been instructed by Sir Esme Howard (British Ambassador in the United States) to attend the funeral of Senator H. C. Lodge to-day, and to place a wreath on the grave on behalf of the British Empire. CANADIANS AT. MONS. OTTAWA, Nov. 11. The chief-of-staff of the national defence foi’ces has received the following message: “The administration of the city and population of Mons send cordial greetings to the Canadian army.” FAMOUS AIRMAN KILLED. PARIS, Nov. 11. During an exhibition flight in connection with the unveiling of a memorial to Garron, who was the first Frenchman to fly across the Mediterranean, Captain Madon, the famous “ace,” who had more victories over the Germans than any Frenchman with the exception of Deputy Fonck, was killed when his machine crashed at Bizerta, also killing a Tunisian, Dr. Aragon. COMMUNISTS FIGHT TROOPS. ATHENS, Nov. 11. It is officially reported that #serious encounter occurred at Kavola between troops and Communist workers, who were trying to prevent non-union-ists from removing tobacco from a factory. The Communists attacked the police and the military with revolvers and dynamite. One officer was killed and one wounded. The crowds dispersed when the soldiers fired over their I heads.