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Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1924, Page 3

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[Reuters Telegrams.] A COURT DECISION. LONDON, March 18 Justice llarridge gave a verdict for £25,000 against Sir Henry Bird, the executors of Earl Shrewsbury, upon a. guarantee given the London Joint City Midland bank for the Aniline Dye Company’s overdraft. Defendants pleaded they believed they had only given debtors a specimen of signatures for bank purposes. A stay was granted.

A RUSSIAN HOPE. LONDON, March 18

The “Daily Express's” .Moscow correspondent says the official Soviet press is exulting over the renewal of the Russo-Chinese relations and hopes four hundred million new Chinese friends will follow Turkey’s lead and throw off tlu‘ yoke of the Imperialistic Western Powers.

FRENCH AND BELGIAN SCHEME. IS TT DIRECTED AGAINST BRITAIN ? •Received this day at 9.-15 a.m.l LONDON. March 18. The “Daily Mail’s” Brussel’s correspondent supplies a Paris newspaper’s story which asserts that France, who is associated with Belgium by a military convention, is behind the creation of a formidable naval base on the Belgian Coast, able to command the North Sea. which threatens tho English Coast. The abandoned German floating docks, submarine shelters and other naval defences at Zeebrugge have been taken over by the Government with a view to repairing them and strengthening the big barracks a,ml fortifications. Munition depots are being built by a Government, construction grant, and a wireless station is being erected at liuyssehlc near Bruges. DAVIS CUP. AUSTRIA’S ENTRY. LONDON, March 18 Sir Hamilton Price commenting in “Sporting Life” on Australia's objection to United States acceptance of Hungary's entry for the Davis Clip, is of opinion the British Lawn Tennis Association will oppose this or any other steps and points out that Hungary has been accepted and there is no reason why Germany should be debarred.

TURKEY’S POLITICS. ["The Times” Service.] LONDON, March 18 The ‘Times” Constantinople correspondent says Turkish girls of 18 are now eligible to vote at parliamentary elections. Rights are given them unler the new constitutional charter, the first seventeen clauses of which have passed the national assembly. One of the most interesting features of the debate is the indication of the growth, of the feminist movement in Turkey. Article ten proposed that every Turk in reaching eighteen should he entitled to vole. It was acknowledged that this applied to women as well as men. Article eleven proposed that every Turk on reaching thirty should he eligible for a deputy. Champions of women's rights naturally claimed they should also he included. The doubt was finally removed by the insertion of the word male. Nevertheless there cere many deputies ready to admit women to the same privilege as men, dcrlariug resistance to their admission cas foolish in a decade when women would certainly be members of the Assembly.

SPAIILfNO EE TR KATA! ENT. LONDON March 18 Spahlinger accompanied by Sir J. Allen interviewed Sir George. Newman, chief medical officer to t Do Ministry of Health, and discussed suggestions whereby lie might help Spahlinger financially to ensure the. continued production of serum. Spahlinger has not vet accepted but Sir J. Allen is hopeful that satisfactory arrangements will he reached. “When I was Defence Minister,” said Sir J. Allen, “I saw so much tuberculosis that 1 decided to help along any possible cure and am anxious New Zealand should he freed of tuberculosis. If we could also tell the world that cattle were free of tuberculosis the effect upon the dairy industry would he tremendous.