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Hokitika Guardian, 27 December 1924, Page 3

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[Reuters Telegrams.] VICTOIIIAN LOAN. LONDON, December 23. The underwriters receive ninety per cent of the Victorian Isian. LIVELY EVICTION' SCENES. LONDON, December 21. TI icrc were lively scenes at Clydebank to-day owing to a series of evictions. Sixty police escorted the eviction officers. •lust as the night patrol of houselioldeis left the alarm was raised l>,v the ringing of a hell. A huge crowd attempted to rush the officers, hut the police intervened. Press photographers were kicked and arrests followed. AN AI’THOII'S DEATH. LONDON" De:ember 21.

The ‘ Daily Express” reports that T. \\ . H. Crosland, author, died of consumption in poverty in a l.ondio, tenement, after a fong illness. (Editor of the “English Review" in 1 DOT and assistant editor of the ‘'Academy”, 1918-1911. Crosland was cnee an iulliienlial journalist. He is known in New Zealand chiefly for the violente of his literary and general prejudices as exemplified in such hooks as ‘The Unspeakable .Scot", 1902.)

BOLSH EVISM’S SPREAD. PARIS, December 21. Anxiety regarding forthcoming events in the Ear East was evinced by Al. Oiitrcv, a deputy for liido-China, in the euur.se of the debate on the Colonial Estimates in the Chamber. lie said he feared the organisation of the Bolshevist Government in China. He knew that Japan had protected herself against the movement !>v an understanding with Marshal C’hangn-tso-lin, the Manchurian general, and Japan and Korea would certainly be saved from the wave of Bolshevism, but lie was also certain that the wave would spread across China and soon reach I iido-China and India. It ought to he watched closely. ENQUIRY INTO BROWN HEART. LONDON, December 23. Tbe food Investigation Board and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research have submitted a report mi their investigations into brown heart in apples and their enquiries into the conditions under which cargoes from Australia are handled. The report stated, that brown-heart is ineducable under commercial conditions in otherwise healthy fruit, simply bv insufficient veiitrlatnn during transit. EGYPTIAN ELECTIONS. CAIRO. December 21. The King has signed the decree dissolving Parliament. The election of electoral delegates is fixed for .lanuary 20th, and the election of deputies for February 2nd. The new Chamber will meet on March hill. COMMUNISTS ARRESTED. BUCHAREST, December 21. Detectives arrested about 100 Communists in 1 1 illei*ont towns ill Loiimunia last evening. The prisoners are alleged to belong to secret terrorist societies in touch with the Soviet. ALBUKY MATCH CANCELLED. SYDNEY. December 2.1. Tlie Englishmen's fixture against tbe southern districts at Albury has been cancelled. DIRECT EXPORT SCHEME. LONDOX, December 2*. Regarding a report from Sydney that the British Government has endorsed a scheme for licensing the Dominions to export meat to Great Britain in a quantity sufficient to make up the homegrown deficiency. it is learned authoritatively that, while the Oovenninol is syinpatbet b- toward:the silicic, a definite decision is unlikely until tbe mat ley lias been considered by the Commission which is enquiring into food prices. AH- 11 assail explains that lie cabled privately that ho regarded Air Baldwin’s sneecli as an endorsement of the Australian Meat Council’s scheme. The Council, apparently, concluded that the scheme hail been adopted and its views were then cabled to Loudon. AIR DISASTER. LONDON. December 21. Nine persons were killed when an air express from London to Paris crashed at the Croydon Aerodrome this morning. The machine immediately burst into Haines. The victims were the pilot anil eight passengers. IMP EP. IA L (ON FER EXC E. COLONrAr- OFFICE VIEW. LONDON, December 21. The Colonial Office explains that while the Government is eagerly desirous of a conference, it does not desire unduly to influence the Dominiins who remain perfectly free to exercise anj prfcrcilce for consultation by cablegram., instead of coming to London. The Cilonial Office view is that the matter of the Geneva Protocol is one of those cases where personal consultation is supremely important. I'iirthermore, it marks a long stride in progress towards intimate inter-imperial relations concerning the Empire’s foreign policy, being the first time ill British history that a conference has been proposed by Britain upon a specific subject. If the conference is held it will establish a precedent which succeeding Governments will not be e

to ignore. AEROPLANE DISASTER. LONDON December 21. Tn an aeroplane disaster, eight I arsons were killed. The aeroplane had just started for Paris at noon, when it crashed about half a. mile from the starting point. It fell nose downwards, the front of the engine burying itself in the ground. The petrol tank then hurst, and the petrol caught fire. Ihe Haines quickly spread to the body and wings of the machine. A crowd lushed to the spot- to help, but the heat was so intense that no one was able to approach the plane, which was re.lmed to ashes within ten minutes. The machine was a Do Havilaud I >0 ]terse power one. It belonged to the Imperial Airways Ltd., a combination of Pritish firms, formed early in the year to work air transport services with the Continent. When the fire broke out, all the passengers probably were unconscious if not dead. The tail of the plane was tilted up so high that all were thrown in a heap with such force that the marks and injuries which the bodies hear cannot he accounted for otherwise.