BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuteiis Tei.eotums.l . STERLING TIP. NEW YORK. Dee. Sterling reached a new 1021 high lc* vel in New York to-day of 4CBJ cents, gaining two and a-lialf cents overnight. BRITISH FMER. OVERDUE. CONST ANT IX OF I d'l Dec. 5. .Sir R. Bruncker, the airman, who left I/ondon on November 20 by air for India, via '.Paris and Constantinople, was expected here yesterday, but be lias not yet arrived. He is to discuss with thy Turkish authorities the etnhlishmcnt of a permanent airway to India by that route instead of via Egypt. His aim was to be the first to fly from Britain in a civil machine across Turkey to Constantinople, Angora and Aleppo. LORD .1 Eld. I COE RETIRES FROM NAYY. LONDON, Dec I. Lord Jellicoe retires from the active Navy list to-morrow, his Goth, birthday, under the regulation providing for the compulsory retirement at that age of any officer who has not been employed in'the naval service during the past five years. REPLY TO CRTTTCS. LONDON. Dec. 4. The “Dailv Express’’ points out that Lord Jellicoe will not he free to make a full detailed reply to the Admiralty’s a n d other criticisms of bis conduct of the Battle of Jutland. WEMBLEY TO CONTTNFE. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. .4. The executive of the British Empire Exhibition unanimously decided that fhe Exhibition will continue in 1925. LADY STACK’S DENIAL. (Received this day at 8.50 a.m.) LONDON. Dec. 5. A telegram has been received from Lndv Lee Stack declaring the report that she had declined the British (•<>- vernment’s offer of £200.01X1. was baseless. She had no knowledge of such an offer. - LEAGUE AND EGYPT. * GENEVA, Dcomber 4. The League of Nations has received a note from Britain contending that even if Egypt signed the Txmgue Protocol, she could not invoke the League’s intervention on any matters reserved to the discretion of Britain by the 1022 declaration. PLOT AGAINST ENGLISH MINISTERS. LONDON, December 5. The “ Daily Kxpres ” states that the Government has received reports from Cairo of a plot against the lives of British Cabinet Ministers, and of plans to damage public buildings. A meeting of the Ministers was summoned after which the Home Secretary (Sir W. Johnson Ilicks) authorised precautionary measures similar to those adopted during the period of Sinn Fein outrages. All British Ministers henceforth are to bo guarded by nr mod dotoctivos,