BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 December 1924, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuters Teeegrams.] PENALTY FOR MANY AIURDERS. BUDAPEST, December 14. AlarfFy, whose trial was cabled on November 30, and also his chief accomplice, have been sentenced to death, and the others to ten pears’ imprisonment, for having placed a bomb in the Democratic Club on August 23rd., with fatal results, others being wounded. They also placed) bombs in the High Court of the French Legation. LONDON, December 15. The ' “Alorning Past’s” Vicuna correspondent- reports two Hungarian bomb throwers were sentenced to death, and four to hard labour for terms varying from five to ten years, in connection with the murders in 1922 and 1923. The prisoners were clerks, their ages ranging from eighteen to thirty, who were members of the Union of Awaking Alugynrs. They committed a bomb outrage in the Elizabeth Club, in which eight persons were killed and thirty-three injured. They also placed infernal machines in other places, claiming that they were supporting tho Government against its Communist enemies, they evidently believing that the Government would he afraid to prosecute them During the trial, friends of the accused men sent numerous threatening letters to the Judges and others, but tlie Court refused to be terrorised.

STATUS OF IRELAND. LONDON, December 15. An interesting development has arisen in connection with the status of the Irish Free State, which claims independent powers in relation to treaty-making, and a co-equal status with Britain. The Irish Free Sates has now registered with the Secretariat of the league of Nations the treaty with Britain constituting the Irish Free State. The British Government lias informed the League Secretariat that it considered that there is nothing in the League’s Covenant which could regulate relations between different parts of the British Empire, and that therefore the Treaty did not mine within Article IS of the League Covenant. q

PAPER CHANGES HANDS. LONDON, December 11. . A receiver has been appointed to administer the affairs of “’lhe I'recman’s Journal,” the Dublin paper, and also a week's notice lias been given to the staff. It is understood that the Irish Be-*' publicans, headed hv the Countess Markievcz, with Aliss Alary AlacSweney as second in command are ing possession of the paper. Both support Mr Dc Valera. ULSTER- ALP. DIES SUDDENLY.’ LONDON, December 14. Mr William ('note, the Unionist member for Ulster in the British llouso* of Commons died suddenly at Belfast. THE KWANGTU DISASTER. • Received this day at b a.i11.) TOKYO, Decernlwr 15. The Kwanto carried 2(17 of a crew, of whom 111 wore saved. Fifty-two dead bodies have been recovered, hut forty-four are still missing.