BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1925, Page 4

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuter' Telecrams.] FRENCH STATIC FROPERTY. LOXDOX, January 30. The “ Times ” Riga correspondent says members of the newly appointed French embassy stalf on arriving in Leningrad to take possession of French State property found the building looted of its priceless tapestries. Valuable silver plate and furniture are missing. The Soviet authorities are investigating the disappearance which is attributed to Zinovieff, who said he ordered its removal.

THE GERMAN LOAN. A GIFT TO RUHR MAGNATES. (Received this (lav at 9.15 a.mA LOXDOX. January 30. The “Daily .Mail’s” Ruhr correspondent says the Reichstag’s finance committee discovered that the Ministry of Finance paid the Ruhr industrialists £32,750,000 sterling compensation against the loss resulting from the French occupation. The “ Yorwaerts ” points out that nearly the whole of the forty millions international loan Germany received under the Dawes scheme was presented to the handful of industrialists without Parliamentary sanction.

SOVIET PESTERING ROUMAXIA. LOXDOX, January 30. According to advices from Riga the Soviet is concentrating troops on the Roumanian frontier for the purpose of frightening Roumaniu into negotiations regarding Bessarabia, which the Soviet is claiming. TROTSKY’S SUCCESSOR. . MOSCOW, January 30. Michael Frame, who has been appointed to succeed Trotsky, is a son of a Moldavian peasant. He participated in the Moscow insurrection and was prosecuted during the T/.arist regime five times, being twice sentenced to death. Frunse was finally sentenced to ten years in Siberia, from whence lie escaped, lie organised revolutionary elements in the Tzarist army in 1915 and later commanded armies against Holfehak and Wrangel.

MURDERED X.Z. SOLDIER. RERUN, January 30. The full name of Cromar is Cyril Francis, belonging to the Otago Infantry. Swaboda’s arrest was due to a German ex-detective standing at the railway station recognising Swaboda alighting from a Berlin train and be informed the British authorities.. THE GOLD STANDARD. (Received this day at 9.25 i.m.) LON DON'. January 30. Walter Leaf, chairman of the Westminster Rank, presiding at the annual meeting of shareholders, said it did not follow that because we reached the gold parity that we could immediately remove the embargo on the export of gold which was due to expire at the end of 192-3 and its non-removal might be confidently hoped for. Mr Leaf asked whether the time had not arrived for a conference of national hanks issue to formulate a scheme of ■co-operation in the nature of gold reserves as suggested at the Geneva conference. Mr Leaf said the re-establishment of parity will he of immense assistance to international trade.