BRITISH X FOREIGN ITERS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1924, Page 3

BRITISH X FOREIGN ITERS.

LATESI,CABLE_NEWS

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CHANNEL SWIMMER FAILS

LONDON. Julv 10

Aliss Hills has abandoned her attempt to swim the Channel. The conditions impeded her progress after she had been a short time in the water.

BREACH OK I’RO.MISK CASK. LONDON. July 11. •Mrs Aleiidliain gave evidence that -lie lived under Lebaudy’s protection, receiving four hundred sterling monthly. Hie defending counsel stated that Lcbiindv never made her any allowance. lie gave her a -mall present of a total value of £2BII. Records were produced -bowing tin- e-tate of .Mrs Aleiidlianr- Into husband was insolvent. ETHICS IN I N Dl'S’l'RA'. LONDON, July II Lord Levei'hulnie delivered a remarkable lecture at Liverpool. He said that, men of science, once freed from the thraldom ol the Churches’ wrong interpretation and maladministration of the Bible, had done more in the lasi Iwo centuries io raise the level o| mankind's eomforl and happiness than the Church bad achieved in all l lie previous cent iirie-. Though religion had not kept pace with scientific achievement-, -till less had the industrialists kepi pace with religion. The maimlactiircis did not ignore iialnrnl or economic laws, but they were ignoring et Ideal laws and I lie Sermon on the .Mount. They considered it goon business to giw poor working conditions the the lowc-i wages. On the other hand, the trade unions seemed to imagine that short hours, a small output, and high wages was good business. Ilotli were ignoring ethical laws. Service to others was Ihe only true load Io happiness.

JAI* TRAAf STRIKE SETTLED,

[Reuters Tki.eoiiams.] (Received this day at S a.in.) TOK 10. July 11. The street car strike lias been settled, the men resuming work on Saturday. A BIG ESTATE. LONDON. July II Viscount I’irrie left hi- whole estate in trust for his wife during her file term. Tlur total is iinascertainalile, bill the death duties exceed one million sterling. AN A .MAZING STORY. LONDON, July II The "Daily Express” Geneva correspondent relate- all astounding story of how three prisoner-. Iwo of w hom were formerly Federal public servants, gained control of the Toerberg gaol. They bribed lhe warders and took charge ol the sale ol gaol products and spent the proceeds in eli.illipugne, food and jewellery. They even had duplicate keys of the gates and went out of town in molor cars. Two engaged fellow eoinicl- a- servants. E\ ideocc wa- given that they had begun negotiations Io sell the gaol as a desirable family residence . The Doiirl heavily increased the sentence-.

LONDON STREET CONTROL Rl DICE LEI). (Received this day at !i a.m.A LONDON. July 11. Aiiiiiing slorie-. previously regarded as fables, of the ease with which anyone" without molestation could dig up the London streets which no fewer than twenty-seven authorities control, convulsed the House ol Lord- in the course of the T raHie Bill debate. Lord .Montagu Beaulieu in invoking protection of the Statute of Limitations confessed that lie. with a few kindred spirits, dressed as navvies aml canning a watchman's box. pule- and lamps in IDO I dug a yaw ning abyss at the busiest corner of Throgmorton Si. Six days elapsed before the corporation eotinneneed inquiries. It was ten days before it was discovered that they lind been hoaxed and filled up the hole. Lord Birkenhead -et the seal of veracitv with the story of Oxlord uiulelgnulantes who dug up one hundred yards of an Oxford street without interference.

LIBERTY OF PRESS TT1 1! EATEN ED

(Received this day at 9.28 a.m.) LONDON. July 11 The Rome corespondent “i tlm “Times” says that widespread indignation has been aroused by the enlomng of a decree regulating the press whin was passed last year but held m abeyance The correspondent states the real object ol the decree, mi.ln.ibtedlv is to prevent hostile criticism ol the ’Fascist regime. The newspapers are complaining that it place- m »»««■ hands of provincial prelects a weapo. which may lead to oolitical •- lion and threatens, noi only the >• erty, but the very existence ol the press.