BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

I CBTSS 1,1 AN AN'D N‘./ . UAIILZ ARSOOIAVION MONGO!.!AX SOVIET 1 {EI ’UP,LIC. (Received tin's day at 9.15 a.mA LONDON, January ■!. 'I he Riga correspondent of the ■‘’limes’’ says it is reported from Mo.seow that Mongolia- Jins been proclaimed a .Soviet Republic and that a- new Government lias been formed with Bolsheviks occupying the principal offices, it lias adapted the Bolshevik system to -Mongolian conditions.

CHINESE WAR. BEK EX. .January I. Gpiiclmaiifaiig lias occupied Suiigkinng. Chenlolisn n’s troops have been routed and C’henlnaii has taken refuge in the French concession at Shanghai. BILLIARDS. -LONDON, January !. McConnohy’s entry in the billiards championship is doubtful owing to bis lack of practice with the ivories. Ho may challenge the winner to a money match if lie improves. A STAGGERING BLOW. (Received this day at 9.45 a.mA LONDON, /January I. The newspaper “People” says the Committee of Imperial defence has rejected the Protocol which, following upon the Dominion’s rejection of Mr Chamberlain's tri-pnrtitc security scheme, embracing France. Germany, and Britain under the League of Nations which lia.s finally killed the Protocol. thus leading to the abandonment of the Disarmament Conference.

The Hon. L. C. M. S. Ainery is disappointed at Hie Dominions’ attitude which he regards a.s a staggering blow to (lie Government’s desire to consult the Dominions at every opportunity. “LEGION OF THE DAMNED.” LONDON, January d. The paper “People” reports that Siovewriglit Stewart, a British Lieutenant, who, after gambling losses atMonte- Carlo, joined the Erenl'll Foreign Legion and escaped as a- stowaway <ni a Spanish steamer. He reached London penniless and declares that the French keep fifteen thousand legionaries incessantly fighting the Moroccan tribes, requiring reinforcements of seven hundred weekly and adds thatthe Legion is nick-named “Legion of the Damned.” The legionaries resemble convicts more Ilian soldiers and .suicides number twenty weekly.

ABDUL KRJM ARRESTED. DELHI. Jan. 4. The pretender Abdul Krim, Leader of the Kliost rebellion, has been arrested at G'urdnspur and lodged in the Lahore gaol. NO-SMOKING. CAMPAIGN. LONDON. Jan 4. A no-smoking campaign lias reduced Britains’ consumption of tobacco by one million per month.

THE TROTSKY AFFAIR, (Received tins day at 10.25 a.m.} LONDON, Jan. 3. The “Daily Mail” states the Soviet’s Commissioner of Finance at Sokolinkov ill an article in the newspaper “I’ravadn” states the political bureau had decided quietly to remove Trotsky without futile explanations, and thus terminate the agitation threatening the unity of the Communists. The Soviet Embassy at London denies that Trptsky has been arrested. It is asserted that lie had been living for four months in the servants' quarters of Prince Yussupov’s former palace near Moscow. NO PENNY POSTAGE. LONDON, Jan. 3. The “Dispatch” states that Mr Churchill has decided against penny postage as it involves an unjustifiable sacrifice of revenue. ANOTHER RADIUM YICTEM. PARIS, Jan. 4. Maurice bemeiitroux, the collaborator of Madam Currie in the disovery of radium, lias died as the result of the destruction of the red corpuscles of his blood, following on experiments to adopt radium to relieve rheumatism.

(I.S.A. AND RUSSIA. NEW YORK, January 3. The United States did fifty per cent more business witli Russia in 1924. without official recognition, than with Tsarist Russia before the war. The Soviet representative here claims they bought 69,757,7(11. dollars wore... of United States goods. LYONS’ REFUSAL. LONDON, January 4. Lyons have refused to reundertake the catering contract at the Empire Exhibition.