BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1924, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuters Telegrams.] AIR MAIL PROGRESS. LONDON TO AUSTRALIA IN 300 HOURS. LONDON, Oct. 0. The newspapers give prominence to the Air Ministry's statement that it is designing special aeroplanes for the different: stages in the ten thousand mile route, linking up Britain with Egypt, India and Australia. The first stage, London to Zurich, is already operating and the extension to Constantinople ami Egypt will commence in 1!)2.j. The existing air force route will tin’ll join up and carry on to Calcutta. via Baghdad. Between Calcutta and Rangoon all metal flying boats, which are proof against tropical weather. will be used. The extension will he made to Australia via Singapore and Port Darwin. It is expected that mails will reach Australia from London in one hundreiK hours. The Australian Airways willf—take over the air traffic from Port Darwin. i THE BRITISH EMPIRE. REDISTRIBUTION OF POI’ULA- „ " TTON WANTED. LONDON. Oct. 0. Presiding at the Authors’ Club Dinner, at. which Sir .1. G. Cook, was the principal guest. Sir Rider Haggard spoke of the necessity for n redistribution of the population of the Empire, which could lie done and must be done, if Britain was to remain The Dominions must lie Ho said Australia could accommodate fifty million whites, and many starving in Britain might be given an opportunity to become the forefathers ol a great and happy population overseas. t

THE GANGES IN FLOOD. LARGE AREAS INUNDATED. tltccsived this day at S n.nt.) DELHI, October 7. As the floods in .Jumna are subsiding the Gauge's is rising - and is already two feet above, the previous record. Large areas are Hooded and railway and river trallie is dislocated.

THE BRONCHOSCOPE. SUCCESS WITH CHRISTCHURCH BOY. NEW YORK. Oct. 0. A button in the lung of Hugh Don, aged 20. of ('ln istehureli. New Zealand. has been successfully removed hy tln' brup.chri.scope at the .jeiTerstni Hospital in Philadelphia. Doctor Chevalier Jackson, perfoctor of the instrument, performed the operation, from which the young mail, Don. is recovering. and sails shortly for home. Doll .swallowed the button during his youth, and had I.een .-uliering from the lodgment for a number of years. Recently he was induced to come to America, because a group of Philadelphia physicians. notably Jackson, had succeeded ui refining the bronchoscope, enabling them readily to extract safely pins swallowed by babies. Philadelphia consequently became a centre whither I he American cities .sent east's requiring the delicate hronciioscouc, persistent research in which has .greatly minimised the- risk uf operations, reducing them to th< - status uf routine. WOODEN SHIP’S BUILT. WASHINGTON, October C. The Australian Cninmumvcalth Government to-dav abandoned, in the SuPl'emc* ( ouvl .its appeal brought tit test Hu - validity of the decision of the Lower Federal Court, in awarding the Patterson McDonald Shipbuilding ( ompaiiy of Seattle, damages amounting - to one million dollars, for the breach of contract in connection with the building oi ships ordered by Australia during tin: war.

GERMAN PALACE SOLD. HER MX, October G. Princess Pauline, the daughter of exKing of AA’urlemhurg, has sold to the AA’urlemhurg Savings Bank the oxKing’s palace in Stuttgart, which took GO years to build, and was partly damaged hv French air bombs during the war. qj THE GERMAN LOAN. LONDON, Oct. G. - The “Times,’’ advocating the (Jcr- • man £-10,1:.71.COO loan, says:—“This great and dignified people, having made peace, will not derive any moral or material satisfaction, or remain faithful to its own ideas, if it carries hostility to a point of refusing help in the leeonstnieticm of Europe. Such tf L action will involve a neglect of Britain’s permanent interests.” CANADA AND AUSTRALIA. OTTAWA, October G. The Canadian Acting Minister of Finance, Mr Robb, stated that Canada is ready to put into effect the Canadian Australian trade treaty to-morrow, provided that Australia is ready. He said the negotiations were continuing, their conclusion depending entirely upon Australia. The treaty extended to Australia the entile British pro- ' fe re I lee.