BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

[by TELEGRAPH—PER TBESS ASSOCIATION.] PRINCE OF WALES. PARIS, April 30. The Prince of Wales is making a battlefield tour incognito. He lot t Lille in a motor car for Ypres via I’Joegsteert and Messines. Tie will cross the Fnineo-Bclgian frontier at Armentieres and then goes to Betlmne and Amiens, where he will spend the night. STRIKES NO GOOD. LONDON. April 28. Mr Neville Chamberlain, speaking to the Aliance of Employers and Employed at Birmingham, bemoaned signs of a revival of industrial strife. Disputes seemed senseless and suicidal to the public because while depleting the resources, they ended in a compromise which might have been secured without the stoppage. ARTIST DEAD. LONDON, April 30 Obituary.— Mark Fisher, a Royal Academician. AVIATION PROGRESS. LONDON. May 1. Tlx Duke of Sutherland, speaking at Woking, said: “l have been engaged at the Air .Ministry oil a seneme for running an air servile to India in sev-enty-two hours. That may seem an impossibility nL the present moment, hut I think it will emm* before long. We are also discussing I lie possibility ol light aeroplanes. Soon people will he ■abln Lo go for a. week-end in a machine costing eighty or ninety pounds, from, which the greatest foul can fall, and not hurt himself.

THEFT OF JEWELLERY. (Received this dav at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, May 1. For the fourth time in three weens, there has been a mysterious theft of jewellery from luggage in transit between Paris and London. Mrs Fanny Darnato was victimised to the extent of four hundred thousand francs. Jewels were placed in a steel box in a trunk. Both were forced and the trunk closed without leaving a sign of tampering. There is no clue to the perpetrators. ’ LADIES GOLF. (Received this day at 9.-15 a.m.) LONDON, May 1. The ladies international golf match is fixed, for the sth 'The teams will he captained by Cecil Leitch -and Mrs Williams (u New Zealander). PRINCE OF WALES. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) ' BRUSSELS, May I. The Prince of Wales is visiting and carefully examining various points on the battlefields, including Hyde Park corner, Passchaendalo. The ground in many places is still littered with great piles of unexploded shells, helmets and rusty bar I led wire. SINGAPORE NAVAL BASE. (Received this dav at 9.13 a.m.l LONDON, May 1. The Commons by 271 votes to 5L carried a vote for the Singapore naval huso. Mr Amory said the proposal was not contrary to either the League of Nations or the Washington Treaty. The Empire's fate might he decided in that neighbourhood.

AVIATION PROBLEMS. (Received this day at 0.25 a.m.) LONDON, May I. The “Daily Chronicle's” Aviation correspondent says secret exj euments in the application of wireless conLri.l to aeroplanes demonstrated that Uiibain was not behind anv country in tills development. 'Machines had been down without pilots or crews and made to twist and turn hv means ot wireless and land at any desired spot It was hoped it would shortly he possible to drop bombs from pilotless planes, thus completing the investigations which began in 1915. The experimental aviation ground * was stirrc'uitdcd with electrified barbed wires and sentries posted to ensure the socrecy of ihe experiments. PRISON INNOVATION. (Received this day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, May 1. The prison Comm ivs ioners have- inaugurated classes in French, shorthand, book-keeping, engineering, and Spanish at Maidstone Gaol. The classes are attended voluntarily by prisoners in their leisure time. This is in addition to the abolition of the -broad arro\v garb and supply of wash-stands and mirrors in cells. - EMPIRE SETTLEMENT. SUGGESTION OF PREFERENCE (Received this dav at 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, May I. Hon Amery, in an article in the Empire Review, on the men of the Empire and settlement developement, says the real, indeed the obvious solution of the problem lies in the whole hearted Acceptance by each part of the Empire of the principle of Imperial Preference. By it, local and Imperial interests can, in every ease, be safeguarded ami mutually harmonised. Hon ‘Amery explains that by whole hearted preference he mentis something nunc than the present tentative and partial preferences, but an all round u() per cent preference which would give the Empire producer an advantage over the foreigner equal to the advantage eujo\ed over him by the Home producer. This would probably represent the best practical policy and aim at what ever taxation or legislation, can give a bias iu favour of Empire trade or development over foreign trade, that bias should he given by remitting stamp duties on transfers, while a serious barrier to financial movements by exchange fluctuations, might he removed by the creation of a. uniform currency system.