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Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1924, Page 2

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. SOVIET NAVY. RIGA, September 21. Adivces from Moscow state the Soviet naval programme for the next four years provides for the following A. fleets: Raltic I'let. -Two light cruisers, four torpedo boats, seven submarines, anil (nice anl.i-suhmnriiu.' cutters. I Hack Sea Fleet. —One cruiser, eight torpedo boats, twelve armoured '"utters. six mine sweepers. For the Pacific.— Four gunboats. For the Artie Zone. —Two gunboats.

GAAIDLING TRAGEDY. P-ONDON. Sept. 23. A vens.ittonal stabbing affray occurred at the Kndon Social dull, situated in the Tottenham Court Hoad di.xti'ietv~,\ and resulted in a fruit .salesman, Alfred Solomon, aged 31; being charged with murdering Mitel; F.nden. a bookmaker, , and with attempting to murder Mi-'”'<* (line! Abelscn. tlie club’s doorkeeper. Eiiden wa’s ].laying cards at tlie club when two brothers, reported to he members of Xorgrigu's Faeini gang, demanded the payment of lacing bets. A dispute over the amount followed and a free light began. A kid. son intervened and he was stabbed in tlie thigh. The gang followed Kiuieu into the street, where he staggered and 'died before lie reached the hospital.

TARIFF AGITATION. LONDON, .September 2!. At the annual Conservative Party Ctniferetico. on the motion of Urofessr llewins. a resolution was < a fried protesting against the Socialists’ and Liberals’ treatment of Dominions’ preference. ZAGIII.I'I. VIN LONDON.. LONDON'. Seplemher 23. The Egyptian Premier, Zaghlul Pasha has arrived in London to interview Mr Ramsay MacDonald. Hundreds of Egyptian students, carrying green Hags and green and white streamers, welcomed the visitor. SUDAN REVOLTEItS .SENTENCED. LONDON. Sept. 23. AlimalaH. a junior Soudan Hovornmont oflii'ial. one of the leaders of the abortive attempts of tile Egyptian Labour Mattalions to raid the Port Soudan Marraeks. in August. has been sen-, teiuod to six years’ imprisonment. Seveial of his associates were also sonteiued to various terms of iiuprisonlllClll. SUPPOSED TO ME SAFE. [ R EDTEItS T n t.EO R AM S. I flleceivcd ihis day at R a.m.) LONDON, September 24. Leitrim criptically wirelessed “arriving London to-day.” The Union Company oflicials therefore eonelude the Crawford is now safe.

CADETS SENTENCED, tlfecoivcd this day at 0 a.mA CAIRO, ‘September 24. Five cadets were sentenced to five years and two cadets to two years, imprisonment at Khartoum, in connection with tlie recent Soudan troubles. ATTEMPT ON FRENCH PREMIER. PARIS. September 23. A woman waiting outside tlie H'overniiieut's Cliateau Ramhnilct handed a revolver to a gendarme, and confessed she bail intended to assassinate Hie Premier, but Iter courage bad failed _ her. She was placed under arrest. Tlie arrested woman is Madame ~ lYiiejeau, a publicist. She told the police that M. Herriott bail been pur, scenting her and she said that she bad proofs of the guilt of Caillattx and of Malvv. tin* recently pardoned exl''iemli Ministers. She intended to ;it (•■ lid m *nd" r to produce I belli ill I in- Police t mil i. The woman, against wliotn there are many previous convict inns, was taken to an inliriiiary, as the police believe she is insane. Madame .lanionii told the police she several times intended to shoot M. Herriott. Flic had always desisted because he looked so nice.

GK R M A*X I’RKI ’A R A T lO XS . (“Sydney Sun” Cables). (Received this dav at- 9.2 d n.ni 1 LONDON, Sept. 21. The "Daily News” Berlin correspondent predicts a big struggle lor world markets, as a result of the coming trade treaties. Since the London Conference Germany's central situation has astonishly transformed. An economic reeoverv is following on the stabilisation of the currency, owing to th? acceptance of the Dawes report. It is miraculous how the under-led. illpaid. ill-clothed Hermans have disappeared. Everyone is ten-fold better oli' than in l!)2.'b The people rise early, work hard, and save. Communism's head workers regard it as a c:tcanny and suicide. The old type ol business mail has reappeared, ll Bri-ti-ii iudiistrv is to parry the coming Herman commercial drive, employers and workers must, he alert, active, and result, eel til. M'la-thcr we like it or not. W rmnuy has again heroine a great European power.

SFK'IDK MANTA. {licceiveil this day at 9.2 d a.in.) VIENNA Sept. 2-1. 'file suit-lie mania is increasing. Six-ty-seven were recorded th? past week, the most prominent I eing a brilliant young actor. Cyril Dayhler, who blew out his brains in the National Theatre because he forget the words ol a piece he was appearing in. HOLE RALI. EXPERIMENTS. (Received this day at 9. Id a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 2d. The Royal and Ancient Holf Club of St. Andrew's reports the failure of experiments with a new hall with which, it was hoped t > restore the balance between length of holes and the power of the eltth. and thus restraiu long drives and ieduce the acreage l'O,|uired for lir- l-elass courses. The halls tried were solid cork, larger, smaller than the pr.'-'-nt type, and floaters, hut. al! result? were negative. It was decided t i continue the experiments. EMIGRATION. OTTAM'A. Sept. 21. v Mi-s Margaret liotidlhld. British •' l’ai liametpary Secretary fur Labour, in a Speech here contended the immigta- > thin policy, followed hv, England, does not consist of an attempt to dump the surplus population into Canada, hut is an earnest endeavour to achieve the transfer of populate n that will he beneficial to all the panic, concerned, the Dominion, the Mother Country, and the settler.