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Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1924, Page 3

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iUSTRvLIAN AND N.Z. OAIILE ASSOCIATION PROTEST against fa>scisal (Received this day al 8.30 a.m.) BOAIK, November 13. Only one opposition member was present at the opening of .Parliament. The! Opposition parties, representing a third of the Chamber, are carrying out a boycott as protest against the arrogance .and intolerance of the Fascist majority and the violation of Constitutional Oovcrnbent by the suppression of the people’s rights.

SPIBIT PHOTOGRAPHS. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON' November 13. Airs Deane, the famous spirit phoconrapher, took up a position in WhiteHall at daybreak and exposed plates during the silence. It is stated the photograph discloses a whole sea of

spirit faces, mostly of young men su rounding the cenotaph.

G KRAI AN DUPLICITY. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 13. A well-informed writer in the ‘‘Tillies” says that Germany may not lie preparing for a war with France, hut she is unquestionably working attain to become a "rent military power, lie declared that the illegal patriotic organisations whose avowed object is to make Germany fit attain to take up arms with success, all continue to exist-. 3 hey are still drillin'; recruits, though for tlie moment activities seem to he eoneeiitiated on stultifying the operations ol the Allied .Military Control Commission. There is no doubt flic special organisation has come into hcincc with a definite object of anticipating visits of the Allied ciflic-ers which must he announced beforehand, thus preventing their .succcs.7.

NOBKL PI! I/E. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) STOCK lIOHM, Nov. 13. The Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature to Ylalislaw Keymout for a great work called “Peasant” which reviews in the form of four novels, the history of Poland since the eighteenth century partition.

COAIAIONKR’S DKATIL LONDON. Nov. 11. Obituary—Tlie Commoner, K. I> Lorell.

BUY FAIITBF GOODS SOCIETY. (Received this clay at. 11. Ho a.m.) LONDON. Nov. I I. The new organisation styled British Cmpire Goods, has been formed for the l impose of educating the public to buy iritish in preference to foreign goods, ii a statement it declares that if only 'hnpiro goods were bought for a veflr, iiieiiiplciynient would disappear ami axati in would diminish.

Lord Asquith is president of the novemoiit.

A CIIAAIITON I! CNN KB. LONDON. Nov. 11. The South African amateur athlete. Arthur Newton, aged forty-one. to-day ran from London to Brighton, a little l over 52 miles, in live hours fifty-three minutes forty-three .seconds, breaking all amateur and professional records, including his own of six hours eleven minutes four and two-fifths seconds, which lie made on 3rd. Nov. I PHI.

Following the rain the roads to-day were very heavy. During the run Newton heat t.he fifty miles world’s record for road or truck in olirs. 38miu. -IHscc. heating his own record of olirs. 53mins. 5 sees made over South African roads in July, 1023.

DUTCH AIBAIFN. DKLIII. Nov. 13. The Dutch airmen have arrived at alcutta.