BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

JAl> \V lUK I, ICSS STATION*. [Reuters Tki.kurams.3 (Received tin's day at !). I* a.in.) TOR 10, .November I!). I he Mar Office has decided to erect n radio station on Yap Island in accordance with article two of the Yap agreement between America and Japan. EGYPTIAN SI DA It SHOT AT. LONDON, November lit. 'I ho Sidar was fired at with a revolver in Cairo and was badly wounded. L : N DKSI It A lil.K ALIK.NS. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). (Keccivcd (his day at 8.30 a.in.) LONDON, November ID. The “ Evening News ’’ says that Sir William Joynsou-flicks contemplates lira tie at ten against undesirable aliens. KXTRK.MK LAliOrit’S A D.MISSION. LONDON, November ID. It transpires that the Labourites under pressure of the extremists, who secured the withdrawal of the Campbell prosecution have admitted that hundreds of revolutionaries who were formerly debarred and whose errand was to exploit the liritish revolutionary movement, many assisted the Labourite and Communist election eanih.bites in breaking up Conservative and Lib-

eral meetings. XOVKL A KUO CAPS. LONDON, November ID. The " Morning Post’s ” Paris correspondent says a novel system, of aero cars, to relieve the trallie congestion, will shortly be tested on an experimental line between Paris and St Denis. The cars are built of aliminium, shaped like an airship and suspended from a single rail forty five feet from the ground, supported on twin columns. The cars will lie driven bv propellers developing a speed of fifty miles hourly although one hundred and fifty miles is possible. Passengers will enter the cars by means of lifts. WOULD’S GREATEST AIR SERVICE STARTUP lIY I’U ITA IN. {Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, November ID. The “Daily Kxpress’’ says that after failures, half-hearted efforts and long delay, Britain has at last set to work earnestly to establish the world’s greatest airship service in ('aldington village, near Medford, which is destined in a few years to become the largest air port in the service to Kurope. '1 lie Umpire airships will arrive at and depart from this port, li'om which they will also commence their Mights to Egypt, India, Australia, Canada and South Africa.

It is officially announced that the preliminary construction is being carried out by the Air Ministry’s R. 101, the mammoth sister airship to the one cabled on the sixth. She will luue a rustless steel hull with seven engines developing *1,20!) horse-power, a speed of seventy miles per hour and she will carry one hundred passengers who will sleep in two deck cabins on a separate deck amidships. She will also be designed for alternative war services.

CARDINAL LOCI UK’S DEATH. LONDON. November ID Obituary—Cardinal Rogue.

TUB ATTACK DESCRIBED. fltoceivcd this day nl. 11.20 a.m.) CAIRO, November ID. The Sirdar, Sir Lee Stack aecoin, panied by his aide do camp, was returning from the War Office. 11 is assailants secreted I bemselves in a door around a corner and as the paity debauched into the main street the attack was launched The bomb first thrown did not explode Then the assailants repeatedly fired automatics hitting Sir L. Stack in the stomach, hand and loot The aid do camp was hit in the chest the chauffeur in the arm and A policeman pursued and brought down three of the assailants with two shots. Two Englishmen in a motor cycle and sidecar were also tired on, but escaped, after noting the number of the taxi' waiting in a side street wherein the aggressors escaped. Eaghlul Pasha and liis Ministers who were "hearing a deputation from the Chamber immediately called at the Residency to express their profound horror and sympathy.

NAVAL defence. LORD JKLTJCOE’S warning. (Received this day at 11-2 n a.in.) LONDON. November IV). The Navy is alive to the urgency of Lord Jellicoe’s warning for the need of (irst class cruisers for the defence of the trade routes. It is learned that Air Baldwin will immediately revive the program""’ of building the eight cruisers which the La hour Government reduced to five. manslaughter conviction. LONDON, Nov. 18. At the trial of Solomon, whose arrest for a stabbing affray was raided on September 23rd. he was chained with stabbing Knulen at the Lden C u ) in the Totfenbani Court bond dlsti u t. evidence being given that Blitz. alias Linden, and Kliiaiinuel, quarrelled. I lie latter threw beer over Blitz, who retaliated .with his glass, cutting Enimanuel’s head. Accused, who was a Iricmi of Emmanuel’s seized a carving Unite, ami drove it deeply into Blitz s head. The door-keeper. Abolson, interviewed to capture the knife, ami he was stabbed in tbe tbigb. He is still crippled. A verdict of manslaughter was returned, and .Solomon was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. AFRICA TO HELP. CAPETOWN. Nov. 10. T|it Union Government has decided to participate in the continuation of Wembley. AN APPEAL. PARIS. Nov. 10. According to “J.e Matin,” Alalvj (cabled yesterday) intends to ask fur a revision of his trial. THE GENEVA PROTOCOL. THE BRITISH REQUESTS. TReuters Teleouams-I t (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 10. It i.s understood that the British requests (cabled yesterday) will ill no way mean scrapping the ] rotocol. The position is that the short- time before Bth. of December is not considered sufficient to give an opportunity for the fullest consideration of (inch an important matter in consultation with the Dominions. There is no desire to turn down the present scheme without the susstitution of aconstruetive plan.