BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[ItiSUTERS Tf.LEOHAMS.] GIANT SUBMARINE. LONDON, January 19. Britain’s newest submarine, the XI ..ns been delivered at Portsmouth. It was built secretlv at Chatham. It is the largest in the world. A WAR TRAGEDY. 0 UK EX-WRITER'S DEATH. BUCHAREST, January 19. The circumstances of the death of “iC’armen Sylvia,” the late Queen of "‘.oumauia, and a noted writer, which occurred in her Roumanian Castle during the Gorman occupation of 191 G,. have just been revealed. The Queen, who was sc-vnty years of age, had been suffering from cataract. She became subject to spells of melancholia. Filially, the sufferings of her country during the German occupation made her decide to suicide. On a hitter February night, she took a hot hath. Thou she dismissed the servants. Lightly clad, she stood at an open window for many minutes, cposed to the icy blast from the Transylvanian Alps. When she was so (hilled that she was unable to hear it any longer, she dosed the window and went to bed. Pneumonia immediately, set in, and in 'four days, Carmen Sy»tii died with a smile on her lips KING ALFONSO. LONDON, Jununrv 20. The “Morning Post” reports that 100,000 visitors are expected in Madrid this -week on the occasion of th- pop”.Ac jom-i ration in honoir cl K.’ic. A!:. i-so. A most remark! 1 lo 'mine will lie the presence of 9000 Mayoir. l’,„ni all parts of the country. His Majesty will become ti e h >Horary Mayor of all the town Counri s i-. Spain. MARQUIS’S SKCrTt MARIUAGE. LONDON, January 21. The Marquess of Winchester, 'England’s Premier Marquess, whose wife died in December, has secretly married Caroline, widow of Marjor Claude Marks, the financier, at the Savoy Chapel. \ CONCRETE HOUSES. ißeceived this day at- 9.25 a.in.} LONDON, January 20. The Committee on. tile new methods of house construction in its interim report, Irecommended concrete dwellings as an alternative to brick. I hey specially favour those constructed by pouring the concrete into moulds, as this system promises more houses and more permanent structures than any other investigated.

011 rNKST'j AFFAIRS. PEKIN, January 20. Sun Yat Sen, replying to Tuaiiohijui’s invitation to attend the rehabilitation Confenencp, says: "■Previous conferences have all been barren because the people have been excluded. They have been attended only by the militarists. Hnvong actual power, you adopt the same principle.” Sun Yat Son requests th« inclusion of people’s representatives, elected by the merchants, universities, trade unions and agricultural associations, t c says the resolutions on military red financial problems should he reserved for final decision by a. people’s assembly, which should follow a conference of naval authorities at Shanghai. Representatives of municipal control considered measures for defence of tbe settlement as trouble is apprehended the me as the last when thousands of .lofented troops poured into the settlement. It is understood the meeting resolved that this should not he allowed to occur again. In the event ot the defeated army falling hack on Shanghai every effort will he made to deflect them to another quarter and if necessary force will he used. JUTLAN D CONTHOY ERSY. [Reuters Telegrams.] (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, January 20. The vexed question of the Battle of Jutland has cropped up in the law courts, Filson Young bringing ail ac,tion in chancery division to restrain (Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon and his publishers, Hutchison and Coy., from publishing an copy of Bacon’s book on the Jutland scandal, which the •plaintiff alleged infringed this copyright. Counsel for defendants asked that the motion should stand over a few days, owing to Bacon’s absence from England. Justice Astbury assented. Plain tills counsel said Filson (Young wrote an article in a Sunday newspapers expressing the opinion that Lord Beatty’s tactics at Jutland were preferable to .lellieoo’s. Bacon reprinted the whole article in his book with kip (tvn comments thereon. Counsel argued that this was an infringement of the copyright and plaintiff thereby suffered damage as tic 1 value of the article had not expired. WEMBLEY MOTOR SQUABBLE LONDON, Jan. 20. A statement, issued hv the Mot'ir Society after being announced at t e most Representative gathering ot the industrv ever hold, unanimously confirms its previous decision regarding exhibiting at Wembley. It demos the association’s attitude was niilueiicec. by foreign interests and points out, that the British Cycle and Motor Cycle Union adopted the same attitude while the Motor Society laid down the hun ° p . liev towards British Industrial haiis organised by the Department ot Overseas Trade.

EVERETT FORGERIES. LONDON, January 19. The Chief Justice in dismissing the nppea. of Ernest Everett, who was sentenced some time ago, to seven years penal servitude for forgery, pointed ou that when Everett was arrested, he possessed 450 forged currency notes, it was surprising that when previously imprisoned 'for forgery, Everett should have been given the task of engraver, becoming extraordinarily efficient. The selection of such a prison task fori, a convicted forger required an imme|diate inquiry.