BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

• LiITKALIAN AND N.,.. CABLE ASSOCIATION BRITAIN AND MKXTCO. LONDON. Dec. 27. There are indications the British Foreign Ollicc early in the new year will send a stringent communication to Mexico on the subject of the murder of Mrs Kvans. Mr Chamberlain has enquired exhaustively into Aiiglo-.Mexieuii a ll'airs, particularly the Kvans incident. Financial and commercial interests have been pressing tu secure Mexican recognition, and have urged the Government to open the way to an amicable scttleimi.it of all dilferences. .Mr Chamberlain, however, has made it clear that the Government intends press its demands fur suitable amends. 'There are many Conservalives who believe the Government must take a firm stand in (•omiectiuii with the Kvans alfair. in order to secure proper rasper* for the rights of British citizens in Mexico. UNIQUE KNI’KDITION. LONDON. Dim. its. An expedition consisting of fourteen men, under Captain Norman Wilkin, of the Royal Naval Reserve, will sail in tin* three-masted frigade Marion nil New Year’s Day from Applcdoro, where Drake weighed anchor many years ago, and will follow minutely the route of the great Knglisli sailor around the dangerous straits of Magellan and up the Pacific coast. One hundred applications won* received for places on the Marion. and Captain Wilkin spent several weeks in choosing mariners from the list. With few exceptions, the men nre making the trip entirely for adventure. The mate is a native of Appledore, and has snout most of his sixty years on sailing vessels. The moving spirit of the expedition is Mr John Henderson, an Kiiglislnnaii. who mapped much of Borneo and the islands south of Lidia and China. Mr Henderson will stop at the cities which now dot the coasts along which Drake sailed. and hopes to gather data as to the original expedition. The trip is expected to take live years.

IMPERIAL COXKKD KXCKS. LONDON" TIMES” CO.MMKNT. [“Tite Times” Service.] LONDON'. December 2!). The “Times”, in a leader, says that there is nothing either surprising or disappointing about the reluetame of the Dominion Governments to participate in the special Imperial Conference on the Protocol. The 'Dominions have their own a (Fairs to attend to and cannot reasonably he expected to release their premiers and other representative Alinisters for long periods whenever a problem, however important, comes up for settlement. Besides the attitude ol the Dominions to the protocol is sulfieienlly notorious in advance <• I the in'opo'cd (onferemc which <ould. therefore, decide nolliiilg but "lial is already known. The business of tlie Imperial Conference, when if next meets, should lie something far larger and more far reaching than the settlement of any current questions. We should inaugurate once and lor all a system under which, not merely the protocol, hut cverv other world problem could he discussed between its members with knowledge and continuity which would ill fact make invitations to sudden conclaves as unnecessary as it is now proving .impracticable. MUSSOLINI'S D KI’LV. ItOAIK. December £9. The moderate newspapers attach little importance to the nienuTrandum suggesting that lloesi intends to blackmail Mussolini to secure his release from prison. Mussolini is expected to reply in I’arliamcnt.

CKOYDEX All! DISASTER. [Reuters Telegrams.] (Received this day aL 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, December 30. At the inquest on the victims of the Croydon air disaster, the Coroner in his opening address said the disaster was the most terrible in the history of civil aviation in England. He deeply sympathised with the relatives and friends, lie trusted it might comfort them to l»notv that there was reason to believe that the pilot and passengers were all unconscious before they reached the ground or immediately upon the impact. Their injuries were terrible but tlieii sufferings were inercilidly short, and probably nowise commensurate with the injuries.

VICTORIAN LOAN. LONDON. December 29. ’me underwriters are snddlded uith 91 per centum of the \ ietoriaii loan. Dealings opened at one per cent discount. THOU RLE IN PUN.IAR. (Received this clay at 11.25 a.niA DELHI, December 29. Discontent over the laud revenue settlement in Suket State, Punjab, culminated in riots and disorder resulting in arson jam! looting. : Tho Revenue Minister’s residence was burnt. The agent of the GovernorGeneral for Punjab states be lias arrived with a detachment- of troops and the situation is now quiet. X.Z. SCULL!NO COACH. LONDON. December 30. The Arnstel Rowing Club of Holland lias engaged Tom Sullivan a New Zealand sculler, as coach. A HANDSOME DONATIONLONDON, December 29. The Vieerov lias received five hundred thousand rupees from Sir Motor Sasson in memory ot Ins late fall - The gift will be devoted to the relief of poor women and children.