BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS.

•MOTOR STEAMER. ItECTISn’S TULEUR.UIS. vP.eceived Tin's Day at 11.30 a.in.) LONDON, Sept, 18. A considerable rex-olution in ste-im-ship travelling is expected! if the forthcoming trials of the first motor passenger liner built, prove successful. These trials will ho made ill n few Jays with the vessel Dainaln. which xvas constructed on the t'ldye for the Hritish India line to piny between London and Calcutta, 'flu; gross tonnage is nine thousand, and the motors eonininedi horse power is LOCO and speed thirteen knits. The consumption is sixteen tons of oil daily. Tt is estimated there will he a substantial saving in running costs, compared with coal. A SPANISH SUCCESS. (Received This Day at 0.10 a.in.) MADRID, Sept. 18. Official.—Spanish forces have recaptured Pndor. Tile .Moors lied precipitately, leaving numerous dead and several guns. GERMAN ROYALISTS. PREPARING FOR COUP. UNITED SKItVIUF. TELEGRAMS. 'Received This Day at 0.10 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 18

The "Daily Mail” llerlin correpondent states tfic existence of a secret murder club among Monarchists xvas proved beyond doubt b,v the eiiniulatixe evidence arising out of the recent arrests at Munich. The conditions of the murder of Erzhcrger sfioxv ilie militarist club of Central Bavaria protected and connived at the assassination. The Central Government xvas warned that the next victims nil the list are Chancellor Wirth, and the Minister of Reconstruction. Rothcnan, a member of the great electrical trust, who at present is negotiating with ttic French .Minister of Reconstruction, Louclicur. Members of the organisation are mostly Royalist ex-officers employing the Swastika badge which was tfic emblem of earlier Royalist bands, notably those concerned in the Kapp coup in Horlin in IP-0. Many belong to the Government services and do not hesitate to use their official authority to assist tb(‘ League’s tims. The philters are in nowise dismayed at the failure of the "Tipp coup, and are definitely planning a'rising, when the time is ripe. Tfic aim of these preliminary assassinations is to force the Socialists to lake violent measures, which will give the signal for civil war. The Royalists rely on the liotoi ions Baltic Corps which participated in the Kapp Coup and are still concealed by junkers as farm labourers on East Prussian estates, where stores ot munitions are iilsi ready. Tic leaders to-day are the same a> in Lapp’s time Hauer. Erbardl. I’ahst. with Liidendorff friendly fitn passive, fhe leaders frequently meet In secret council at Rosenheim, iiear-nMunieh, where the Bax'arian Government connived at their activities. SHACKLETON'S EX 1 ’EDITION. (Received This Day at 0.40 a.m.) LONDON, September If.

Sir Ernest Shackleum was cheered l) V watching thousands who had gathered on St Katherine's dock as the Quest moved a\v:iy. After enllinsi s»t C’npetown the vessel will vanish from the world’s ken, but not into the silence that wrapped former expeditions. Sir E. Sluickleton is now accompanied by several old comrades including Frank Wild, second in command. The Quest is a stout, specially built little craft, hardly more than one hundred feet long. She is fitted with wireless and therefore at least intermittent touch with civilization »ill be kept up during tin 1 thousands of miles. Sluickleton interviewed described what is know n as the Quest’s ‘-electric man” clad in a suit similar to that worn by an airmail, and lined with light wool, under which arc wires warmed by electricity (special devices preventing over-heating). 1 lie navigating officer will be able to carry out bis work in the coldest weather. Wild was ill Xyassaland when he received Shnckleton’s cable and came right away.

The full personnel of the party is as follows Sluickleton, Wild. Frank Worseley (sailing master). D. G. .leflrey (Navigator), Major Macklin (surgeon), Captain Hussey (Meteorologist) T.icut. Kerr (Chief Engineer). Major Carr (airmail); Captain Douglas (geologist, B. E. K. Mason (photographer), G. Smith (second engineer). J Dell (electrician), D. Erk-son (Gunner), S. Watts (wireless operator), C. •!. Green ship’s conk). Two boys scouts Mounce and Man- are with the expedition. Those going the second time with ,Shackleum arc Worsley. Markin. Hussey and Green.

QUEST HELD Ul‘. i (Received This Day at 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. : : Rough weather compelled the Quist to anchor at Gravesend. It was decided to stow safely all stoics, bclorc resuming the voyage. SERIOUS INDIAN POSITION. (Received This Duv at 1.5 p.m.) DELHI, Sept IS. It is officially stated that the Malabar situation is serious. Ibe rebellion is not broken, and except in the immediate vicinity where troops are operating, the life and property of non-Mohammedans is unsafe. Roads ami bridges which the troops repaired in the interior districts have been destroyed again. Five bodies of rebels, totalling live thousand, arc operating at various points and the work ol supervision by the military is hampered bv the rebel mobility.