BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

IUaTIUMAN AND N.Z- CAULK ASSOCIATION. DAWES PLAN OPERATES. PARIS, August 13. The machinery of the Dawes Plan was to-day set in full operation by the Reparations Commission issuing a formal declaration that Germany has fulfilled the preliminary conditions, including the installation of various international controlling bodies, the establishment of a company to administer the German railways, and the depositing of railway bonds and industrial debentures with Trustees. EMPIRE DEFENCE. •SOUTH AFRIC AN’S SHARE.

(Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) CAPETOWN, October 11. Addressing flic Transvaal branch of the Navy League, Senator Guthrie, said that South Africa was not doing her full share towards the maintenance of the navy and naval defence. She was only contributing a paltry £85,000 per annum, yet she was relying almost entirely on its protection. Smith Africa had as much to lose as Australia. The Australians expected South Africa, as a sister Dominion, would do more than she was doing at

present, to contribute to a great pro- I tcctivc and imii-aggrcssivc institution, i The Hon Guthrie added that Alls- I Indians were very bitter over the i Labour Government scrapping the 1 Singapore Base in the lace ot the nr- i gent appeal from all the naval authorities as well as the people of Austin- t lia and New Zealand. I A HIGH ELY. PARIS, October 14. Villa Coublay ascended in an aeroplane 12,06(1 metres, a record. i JAPAN’S RETRENCHMENT. n TOKIO, October 14. , Three Government parties voicing | approval of Premier Kate’s plan to reduce next year’s budget by two bundled and ten millions seems to confirm the report that lour •army divisions will he abolished. The loans to - lie floated abroad will he one hundred | and forty million, instead of three lmn- . dred and sixty million. Items for re- | form including a drastic reduction of . the personnel of bureaux number -JO. , ACTOR’S HANGING EXPERIENCE, i (“Sydney Sun” Cables), rßeceived this day at 8.50 a.m.t LONDON, Oft. I I. Claude Kains, an actor, bad a sensational experience at Kve.yman’s 4 neatre. When playing a part his mounting of ft wheeled scallold "i ll a rope around bis neck, somebody pushed the scaffold causing him to lmhi tuv. Hi* swunK ntil, susocnc.ct O I the neck, presenting a realistic nicturc of a hanging. The stage executioner promptly grasped and released the actor, who described bis experience as that of a drowning man coming up lor the last time, a momentary ret.iew ot (,is whole life passing tbroiigb bis mr.ul. A JAP CONTRADICTION, (ltecc-ived this day at 8,00 a.m. PARIS. Oct. 14. The Japanese Embassy, in n statement defending the attitude ol th Japanese delegation to the League Assembly towards the disarmament protocol. says the wild talcs that Japan's objective was the United States. „• certain British Dominions are pure-

ly imaginary and entirely , <>“ >L" ° the delegation’s motives. ht L - has?v declares the delegation lojnllj i - tend to keep the League's Covenant free from patent inconsistency. TROUBLES ENDED. VIENNA. Oct. 14. The Deposit Bank troubles have been ended by Castiglioni nude,-taking ' p„y the bank lifteeu hundred milium ‘ kroner. PEKIN. Oct. 14. - Recent reports from Mukden of the t r,i< r Changtsolin victory .ast week-end “ Spear much exaggerated. The kites reports from foreign sources show that while the Fehgeiners broke through the wall near Shanghaikwan t.uv wore subsequenl.v driven hack beyond 1 the main front the Chiblites recovered all the ground lost at Slianhalkwan where at present, both forces an in their original positions.

SINKING A WARSHIP. LONDON. October 14. The ‘‘Times” commenting on the Admiralty’s decision to sink in deep water the warship Monarch which is being scrapped under tlio Washington Treaty, says it will probably bo the first time a capital ship of the Royal Navy was destroyed in this manner. The' custom lots been to use thorn as targets, or to dismantle them in slopbreakers yards. Since the Armistice, however, there has been such a glut of vessels for demolition, that it has probably been found more economical to sink the Monarch, instead of waiting for a suitable opportunity to sell.