BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuters Telegrams.]

ELECTORAL BILL. CAPETOWN, Jan. 14

The new Electoral Bill to be introduced next session enacts that press articles on ©lections must be signed as in Australia. The Bill also provides for voting bv post, in the ease of absent voters. Newspaper companies, associations and trade unions are required to furnish returns Rowing their expenditure in tbe interests of candidates or on tbe publication of paid electoral matter. Political organisations are lorbidden to carry-on pliilantroplmal work, and vice versa.

AGREEMENT SIGNED. PARIS, January 14. The Financial Conference signed the agreement at II a.m. The Italian and Roumanian representatives signed, with reservations. THE AORANGI. ENGINES GREAT TRIUMPH. KINGSTON (Jamaica), Jan. 14. The Aorangi" arrived at Kingston on the 14th despite her seventeen hours in a'storm and delay by Atlantic gales lasting three days. The Aorangi arrived to schedule time, actually reducing her speed. The Aoraugi’s best twenty-four hours steaming was four hundred and twenty-eight', knots. Mr Crawford confirms that the engines are a triumph, they averaging without being extended, over seventeen knots, although only sixteen were intended. The engine room temperature in the tropics was twenty-1 our per cent below the customary temper-

ntUI °FTGHTING TN MOROCCO. PARTS, Jan. MInternal fighting in Monu-eo is veP ‘A telegram from Fez nay* that

T- i-nnpt. attacked ami detente;, tne Riffs westward of Shcshunn, killin' one hundred and taking three hundre.l pm H ’ n \l>ei Krim. leader of the lliffs. rnrnediately dispatched a lone muki . eldest lieutenant to punish The “Petit Parisien Uecln.es tlic struggle between the Riffs “"Vv'm challenges the posjlmn of -Abdel Km . CHINESE Eft-H IIN t■ • PEKIN', Jan. MSome of Chang Yueming’s troops .id considerable looting during Hie pa-t two 'davs in Shanghai native aty in, surrounding villages, hut now his n.m> is mostly interned in the foreign tlement of Shanghai, and its <-»" rons are again tranquil. Chihsielivuan claims to contiol Shanghai-Nauking railway as tar us Chinkiang an dis pushing move foices m that direction. . It is reported that Luynng TTs.ana is dispatching troops from Nanking towards Chinkiang, including tuo ct Chang Tsoi in’s Manchurian divisions It is worthy of note that Chang isolin himself has returned to Mukden tm-- " a 1‘ r A MBASS AD 011 R I” 1 ' 1R TXf ’ • LONDON, Jan. It. Reports that Count Havashi is ictiring has not created surprise as it is understood that he sometune ago expressed a wish to resign. 1 .‘, of his successor has not been definite .> decided, but it is believed that Baron Matsu is favoured for the position ot Ambassador in London.