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Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1925, Page 3

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[Reuters Telegrams.] CO A INI UN I STS TURNED DOWN. LONDON, Jam uu ry ID The Scottish Labour Conference at Glasgow rejected by 12, to 86 rotes a motion involving the affiliation of the Communist Party. • OLD .MAN'S TERRIBLE REVENGE. BUT PAYS THE PENALTY. (Received this day at P, a.m.) LISBON, January 9. An old miller named Almeida was the central figure in a strange tragedy near the ancient town of Coimbra. John and Alarm Borges (brother and sister; who long worked at the mill went to Almeida and told him that they could no longer work for him as their serenes were needed at home. Almeida said he quite understood that their own family must come first and apfeared to he reconciled at .his less. He invited them to stay to a farewell meal. "While it was being prepared the brother and sister agreed to repair the mill stone and wore thus engaged when, w ithout a sound or warning. Almeida attacked John with a hatchet. A fight ensued in which Almeida’s wife came hurrying to the spot and then Hung herself between her husband and John. She received a blow from the hatchet and was killed outright.

Almeida then lea] t aL Alarm, but sbe wrested the hatchet from him and in defending herself struck the old man such a blow that lie too, 101 l dead. John Borges i.s not expected to recover. It is thought that Almeida been me suddenly demented at the thought c-f losing his young helpers. NAVAL ARMAMENTS. BRITAIN’S LATEST CREATIONS. • Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, January 10. The ‘‘Daily Express” states that the design of the battleships -‘Nelson” and “Rodney”, which are being built in Britain under the terms of the Washington Treaty will be so revolutionary that they will mark the end of the dreadnought era. They "ill he both fortresses and aerodromes. Each "ill mount nine sixteen-inch guns, all forward, and will cany alt their own scouts and torpedo planes. Although driven by steam, there "ill he no funnels, the produce of the furnaces being carried olf by pipes running along the sides and discharging the fumes bc-i.i;.' 1 . »

The only prominent feature in the forward part of the ship will he a heavily-armotired citadel, containing the navigating, signal bridge, and fire control. As all tho guns and magazines will he grouped forward, armour plates along l lie sides being unnecessary. The weight thus saved will he devoted to heavily armouring the decks against a!-" bombs and high angle projectiles. DEE A All NO A KING. AUTHOR ARRESTED. PARIS. Jan. 10. Consequent on representations of the Spanish Alinistry proceedings have been instituted against Vicente Blasco Ibanez, the Spanish author, who is nonresident in France and who will he charged miller the Frei ich laws with an offence against the sovereign of a friendly state. Ibanez fiercely attacked the King ol Spain in His hook entitled “Allouso the Thirteenth Unmasked,” and lias openly claimed that lie was uncoil ducting a revolution in Spain Irom I 1 ranee. IRISH PRIMATE. LONDON, Jan. 1(1. Archbishop O'Donnell (Miceessco- to Cardinal Logon), has received a salutatory telegram from the Archbishops and Bishops of Australia-and New Zealand, wishing peace and prosperity in Ireland. ANOTHER U.S.S. STEAMER. LONDON, Jan. It). The Northumberland Shipbuilding Company, of Hendon-on-Tyne, Ims secured a contract Irom the I nion Steamship Company of New Zealand, for a special steamer for the Australian coastal trade. The' engines will also be Iniilt on the ’lyiie. RUSSIAN UNREST. LONDON, January 9. The “Daily Express’’ Riga correspondent states that the conflict- lietweeu Extremists and the Afoderate Trotskyitos is more acute. Hundreds of the latter, ami many secret police have been dismissed. Forty Trotsk.vitcs have been arrested daily and sent to Siberia. Several of the garrison have mutinied, as a. result of which, it is reported, there were strikes in many places in the south, especially in the Don basin, where maitial law has been proclaimed and troops have been rushed in. LADY COGHLAN’S INJURY. BERNIv. January 9. Ail examination at the hospital revealed that Lady Coghlan’s leg is not broken, hut is painfully injured. GLAND TREATMENT. LONDON, January 9. The Aledieal Research Council declares the gland transference experiments in the hospitals s'how no eonstunt beneficial influence upon tuber-1 •ulosis or senile, mental or muscular weakness. It eulogises the success of insulin, and also the etleet ol the Alpine winter and sunlight in increasing the bactericidal efficiency of the blood. It- adds that the apparent interchangeability of light and vitamiue action opens new chapters of preventive medicine, enabling great future improvement in the Health, statue and beauty of Britons. CROYDON All! DISASTER. LONDON. Jan. 9. At the inquest on the' Croydon air disaster victims, (cabled Dee. to.) the Coroner stated that Captain llini-u----lilfe the nilot who was Hying the machine. had'some days before December 2Jth complained of engine truuu.e. Captain Hineblilfc actually flew the machine back towards Croydon on the morning of December 24th. Ihe jur; must consider whether reasonable care was taken in order to make the vmu-a-inc fit- for the journey, and to doc-ale whether the deaths were due to misadventure or neglect. TRIBES BOA! BED. BAGHDAD. Jan. 9. The Akliwan Tribes made several raids on Iraq 'tribes, seventy nde.s north-west of Nasiriyah. Aeroplanes from Baghdad located the raiders whom they bombed and tired on "it machine guns. - . The British High Commander lm,. sent a strong note to Ban Sand dee Bring the raids must cease, and the 100. be returned, and threatening scieic punishment to future raideis. SHARES BEING BOOSTED. LONDON, Jan. 10. The “Daily Express” states that enormous numbers of .shares in the British South African Company have changed hands during the last two days, anti the price has risen to 22s 3d, being an increase of 3s 9. The “Express” says that Southern Rhodesia is seeking to buy the Company, and is endeavouring ; to'induce the South African Government to join in the deal.