BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1924, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[ liitUTEits Tklkcii vsts.T I!()WLEY CASE. LONDON. December 3. Tin verdict in the Uenvley case was that the hu.-hanel was not guilty of cruelty, hen-, the; jury were unable to decide as to the wile’s alleged miscoiului'i with Clarke. AX(: 1.0-0 EUMAX A 0 li EEM ENT. LONDON. December 3. The negotiations in connection with the Aligln-Oeriiiiiit Treaty of Commerce ami Navigation have concluded. Alt agreement lias been signed at the Foreign Ollice by Mr Chamberlain anel Lord D’Abernoit for Britain, and by’ the Herman Ambassador and Dr von Schubert. HERMAN SUHAII CROP. BERLIN, December 3. The Herman sugar beet crop totals 33.000.1)1)0 of zeiitners, or twenty-one millions below thill ol 1013, hut eleven millions above that of 1023. There will he a large epiauiity available lor export. England is expeeteil to be Germany’s heist eustoinor. TROTSKY RESIGNS.

MOSCOW, December 2. Oeneral Brienze, from the Ukraine, has .superseded M. Trotsky in the Presidency of the Army and Navy Conference, the Conference indicating that Trotsky has resigned the position as Commissioner for War. COMPLETELY IGNORANT. PARIS, Dee. 2. Captain Arthur told an interviewer that he was completely ignorant of the Robinson all'air. He never had Mr A.’s cheque in his possession, anil certainly lie made no use of it. lie was anxious to appear in an English Court as soon a- possible, to establish his absolute honesty. Arthur’ counsel is Mr Maitre Hide. He has raised an objection that the extradition law could not apply. because his client was by birth an Irishman. It is understood that the French authorities will hand over Arthur to Scotland Yard, leaving M. Hide's contention to he decided in an English Court. A DIVORCE. LONDON, Dee. 2. The “Evening News” states: Captain Arthur is n descendant of the ancient Kings of Munster, am! he married a famous Irish beauty, from whom he was divorced. His wife, when giving evidence in the divorce proceedings declared that Captain Arthur’s income was £7(K)i) per annum. IMPORTANT NEW FACTS. PARIS. Dec. 2. Captain Arthur’s counsel states that during the extradition proceedings, he intends to put forward most important new facts, which hitherto have been kept in the background. He says that Arthur lias been the victim, like Mr A. of a band of international swindlers, who have robbed him of half a million francs. Counsel says:—“l have advised my client to sneak out plainly.”