BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. JAP .ASSASSINATION PLOT. TOKiO, Jatiary 15. On the strength of information regarding the plot to assassinate the Prime .Minister at the re-opening of the Diet on January 22m1, the police in a raid arrested two of the ringleaders and are now dragging a net for the others. Definite information is refused, but ir. is stated that the plot is widespread and carefully laid. A JAP SUGGESTION. TOKIO. Jan. LI. It i.s authoritatively stated that the Government has instructed Count Hayashi to propose to the American State Department that the wireless entanglement in China he solved by the joint efforts of the Governments concerned. It is suggested that the enterprise he placed under the control of America, Japan and China. A (STYLISH WEDDING. LONDON, Jan. 1-1. There were astonishing scenes at the much advertised marriage of Prince Ferdinand De l.eichteiistcin to Aliss •Shelagli Brunner at the Bromptnn Oratory in the West End of London. Spectators assembled at nine o’clock in i.’:e morning at the iliurli. Some perched on the rails of the Lady Chapel. others climbing the niches reserved for the sacred statutes.

The vergers vainly tried to stop the public from standing on the chairs. When the invited guests, numbering seven hundred, arrived, they found that the aisles were a solid mass of people. Stalwart policemen interlinked aims, and marched in front of the bride and bridegroom, in order to force for them a way to the Altar. The wedding ceremony proved a highly spectacular one. The bride was wearing gold lace over gold 1a I no, and a gold veil. Twenty-niie suites of rooms were engaged at the Carlton Hotel for the bridegroom's relations. The bridal reception took the form ol a huge afternoon dance. SUNDAY GAMES. LONDON. Jan. 11. I.ndy Tnislrain, on the eve of addressing the Woman’s Local Government Society, said that there was abundant evidence that the decision to permit Sunday games in the parks had proved one of the best things that the London County Council had done. 'I lie police also testified that the games took the youngsters from undesirable haunts. There was no religious question involved. Nobody need play, or countenance Sunday games, who did not want to do so. AYKAIBLEV BOYCOTTED. LONDON, Jan. 14. The Society of .Motor Manufacturers and Traders has forbidden its members to exhibit at: the Empire Exhibition. It warns any members disregarding this ban that they will not he allowed to exhibit at the annual motor show at Olympia. Sir I awreiict* Weaver suggests that Ihi-- embargo is due to the influence of the foreign mem hers of a Society, who could noi show at Wembley. The Society emphatically deny this. They declare that the whole trade has asked the Society to impose this embargo. The ground of it is that the Exhibition at Wembley is not a business proposition. CROYDON AIR ENQUIRY. LONDON. January 14. At the Croydon inquest, Eskell, in evidence, admitted that he told Henry to he careful when he answered questions, hut he was. referring to a private inquiry which the company were holding, not to the inquest. He emphatically denied that he had tampered with the witness or the pilot. The Coroner ’accepted Eskell’s evidence, and said the allegations were unjustified. Correct ion -1 lincltclifle is not the deceased pilot, lie had previously flown the ill-laied aeroplane. The inquest was adjourned. WIRELESS AMATEUR'S FEAT. LONDON. Jan. 15. Mr Duyck. a wireless amateur at Woodford, Essex, picked up on a threevalve set. between 8.30 ami 10 o’clock this morning. Greenwich time, musical selections, including fox-trots and cue s&qis. which he believes were broadcasted from .Melbourne or Sydney, lie is anxious to know whether such were transmitted. INDENTUKK SYSTEM AEOLISHED. [Received this day at 0.25 a.tn.l GENEVA. January 15. The International Labour officers’ weekly publication | ays a tribute to the reform in tie* Chinese workers’ conditions in Samoa, and the abolition of the indenture system.