BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[IIEUTERS TKr.KGUA.MS.] CHINESE EIGHTINO. PEKIN, January 18. It is reported that Luyunghsinng's troops clashed ivtih a lorce of CTiinsiehyriaiiites near Chinkiang. About fifteen thousand troops wore emumed ami the Ciiirisichyuanites were completely routed from Ciiinkjang and arc in lull retreat. Chinsioli.viian has sent all lii.s reserves to F’oochow where lie hopes to establish a. ..efonsivc line, hut it doubtful whether that line, will bold. All naval forces and Shanghai volunteers are being held in readiness to meet emergencies.

HERMANS .SENTENCED To DEAT H BRI SSEI.S, .1 ;iiiiijtrv 18.

The court martial at Liege sentenced to death tlie- Hermans, Colonel Von 1 hcsscmruin and Major Herderman, who are held responsible for the massacre of 121 civilians. AI. Jossignol, burgomaster of Arlon, gave evidence that the assassinations were ordered and carried out with inconceivable levity, without trial and without even the names or tiie identity of tlie victims being ascertained and recorded. PLOT TO BLOW I P BATTLESHIPS. LONDON. January 18. Scotland Yard carried out a series of raids in London and arrested five men and a woman who. it is alleged, were plotting to blow up British battleships and submarines. BALTIC P ATHS CONFERENCE. I? IH A, January IS. The Conference of the Baltic States agreed to settle mutual disputes by arbitration based oil the League of Nations protocol. SLUMP IN BUTTER. MARKET DEMORALISED.

LONDON, January 19. The blitter market, is demoralised, buyers abstaining. Quotations are nominally: New Zealand choicest lofts to 100 s. Australian, about 152 s to 151 s. Danish, 188 s. The market is tending to become weaker.

Cheese is quiet. Now Zealand is 01 s. HI? 11 AIN IX THE SUDAN. AVAI?I) TB TOE’S A'IKWS. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). (Reccved this dav at 9. In a.m.) LONDON, January 19. Ward Price, who is visiting the Sudan, declares that in view of the assassination of the Sirdar and tile Khartum mutiny, it is time Britain plainly declared that- the Aiiglo-Egyp-tian partnership in the Sudan must he -suspended for a- period, if .not permanently dissolved. Full authority cannot lie tolerated in an area as large as British India which is now held by three weak British battalions. The recent measures to prevent Hgyptniri interference- are insufficient so long as the Egyptian flag flies alongside the British and Egyptian intrigues continue possible.

SPIRIT'S AND MURDER. fßeee'Vt- this dav at 9.95 a.m.) LONDON, January P Spritualist research experts are busily investigating the Crowhorough crime, and are especially stilldying Sir Oliver /'Lodge’s theory that the spirit of murderers influences others to commit similar crimes. It is pointed out that Crowhorough is a, lew miles distant from Crumbles, the scene of Mahon’s murder. JH.ISII EX-SERVICEI? S WIO.('OM ED. ,Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON. January 19. At a dinner in Dublin at the inauguration of the British Legion in Ireland, it was mentioned that Earl Haig, had heartily welcomed the 150,000 South Irish ex-servicemen joining the i/egion. MAD POSTMAN’S ACT. PARIS, January 19. _A demented postman barricaded himself in a flat with a stock of revolvers and ammunition. He fired through the the door and kept at bay a strong cordon of police, but the latter under cover of shields bored holes in the door and fired poison gas cartridges through, the madman being overcome and arrested.

FIVE MIXERS GASSET). LONDON, January 10. Five miners were I'atally passed at the Kirkst-ylc Colliery at Glasgow this morning. t‘|K battleship I’got. (deceived this day at 11.25 a.m.l LONDON, January 19. The arrest of the woman and man who arc alleged to ho members of the Irish Republican organisation concerned in the plot to blow up British warships had its set|iie.l in Bow Street today when two men wore remanded for a week. Jeremiah Jose] h O’Lcnrv, a dockyard shipwright at Portsmouth was charged with communicating information about the llaslar dockyard to Cyril MeGollgh, a civil servant of London, who was charged with receiving it. TWO AVIATORS KILLED. LONDON, January 19. The Air Ministry announces that as the result of the accidents to two Bristol fighters at Ismnlia. and Ramleh respectively, flying officers James Alexander McLaren and Ronald Reid Brine lest their lives. Alex Sutton was seriously injured. The two last-named were the occupants of a machine at Ramleh. STEAMERS SHELLED. (Received this day at 12.30 p m.) ]>KKIN. January 10. ' The British steamer. Wenchow, owned by Butterfield and Seviro. Limited, was heavily shelled by the 'C hinese seven miles above Cldnskang. one shell passing just over the bridge. 'I he vessel was not hit, hut was forced to return i Nanking from where the war ship ; s carah, finally escorted the U enehuw and two other British steamers to Shanghai. Butterfields steamm Tungehow, from Tientsin, was also shelled when .passing Woosiing, hut she also was not hit.

GOLD ISSUE. LONDON. Jan. 19. The “Dailv Mail's” political correspondent says while the Govevn.nent are anxious to re-establish a Lee _ and silver market in London, it unlikely to restore the sovereign circulation fe. some years, because amount of gold in a sovereign is non worth considerably move than -IKcausing a loss to the Exchequer it gold replaced notes.

SHIPWRECKED CREW ARRII E. (Received this day at H.2e um.) CAPETOWN, Jan. 19. The shipwrecked crew of the Envnn. cabled on the 4th. arrived to-day. . " struck an unchartered rock cm the nit;' i of 31st. Dee. holing the lnd Ik weather was favourable am. ami hours’ milling they reached Swan Jsja„d. They killed seal and made a fire from the blubber, and afterwards pulled Ip miles to Home Ilsancl, where the steamer Kilfenora was lying. » w 0 days later there was a terrific Stoim. Tlic* crow nro Norwegian?,