BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

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PUBLIC RESENTMENT AT MARID AG f.

MADRID, February 10.

Scenes have been occurring as a result of public resentment at a prospective wedding at Benacnzcm on the ground that the man had abandoned another girl and her baby. The outcry was so great that the crowds prevented the. bridegroom and the prospective bride from walking out together. A deputation warned the parish priest against performing the ceremony. 'Hie bride’s mother, motorng to Benaeazon with an escort of two evil guards, was stoned hv the populace. The Mayor was induced to postpone the ceremony, Imt lie was censured by the military lor 11 lack of energy..” 'The people are strongly guarding the couple to prevent their escape from the district.

mrssoi.ixf ILL. ROM 15. Fell. Hi. The Italian Premier, Signor Mu-su-lini, is suffering from influenza. His doctor has ordered him to remain in bed.

A PARIS TRAGEDY. PARTS, Feh. LI

A ease recalling that of Umiriska (tin- Polish poet, whom his actress sweetheart shot recently) has occurred in the Madeleine quarter. A dressmaker name dAnua Lo Masseur, shot, her sister Annis, who was slowly dying of an incurable disease. Anna, who gave herself up to' the police, related that two other sisters had died lingering deaths. She yielded to Annis’s entreaties to .shoot her, instead of sending her to the hospital. Anna made a will, locked the door, shot her sister, and then turned the revolver on herself, but the trigger would not work. BEAM RADIO. VANCOUVER. Feh. 17. AVithin a few months Montreal will he directly connected with Australia through Marconi's new system of beam radio telegraph at Driimmoiidville. Quebec. Marconi’s are putting ihe finishing touches on the radio station foi communication with England. Throe additional towers will shortly he erected for the Canada-Australiaii circuit, and Dninililondville thus will he one of the greatest radio centres on the Continent.

The beam circuit will he operated in conjunction with the British Post Office, allowing messages to be sent from England r,:> Druinmondvillo, and then relayed direct to Australia.

CANADIAN TRADE. OTTAWA, Fell. If.

Dr Karl Page (Australian Treasurer) adressing the Montreal Export Club, emphasised the necessity ol strengthening the gossamer threads knitting the Empire together with something strong and more tangible if the Empire were to win the place it had won in the 'Aar. Australian industries were all organised and ready to push business, Mi.mid Canada ratify the agreement. The equalisation of the amounts of goods passing between Australia and Canada was of primary importance to Ibe freight rates, transportation being now very expensive, been use Canada was taking only one-fourteenth of the value of goods that she ships to Australia. Canada could purchase more Australian butter and wool, and other products. A REMARKABLE. STORY. (Received this day at 8.30 a.in.) LONDON, February 17.

Captain Broaden, a civil engineer, who states that he was formerly State Engineer in Kashmir and subsequent!' spent years in Australia, told the police a remarkable story. fireadou was picked up unconscious at "Whetstone and when he recovered lie declared that he left Australia at the outbreak of the war and returned to India and obtained a position on the .Munitions Board. During the course of Iris stay in India he bought twenty pearl necklaces, ten bags of rubies and six cut diamonds.of a total value of £II.ROD. Accompanied by his nephaw and a partner in the IH ttim Garden linn with which he was negotiating the sale of gems, he entered a taxicab, and another limn, known to. he a gem merchant joined them. He gave them choiolates and Breadou alleges that the chocolates were drugged. After eating one be remembered nothing for forty-eight hours, and when he woke up in the hospital the jewels were missing.

REBAR AT lONS SQU A Bill M

ROUMANIA AND GERMANY. [“The Times” Service. | (Received tliis day at 11.25 a.m.) LONDON February IV. The ‘Times” Berlin correspondent says the failure to settle the question of reparations not embodied in the Dawes scheme has resulted in a German and Roumanian dispute. The Bucharest Government has issued i decree virtually .suspending trade to Germany. Roumania demands a settlement based on the Treaty of I ersailles, hut Germany argues the position is altered by the Loudon agreement under which the only war payments Germany is obliged to make are Dawes annuities. Berlin reprisals are foreshadowed if Roumania. fails to accept the German viewpoint.

COMM UNISTS DLSQU LIFTED. LONDON, Fbbrtiajry 17. The “Times” Sofia correspondent states the Bulgarian Government has issued drastic measures against the recent Communist violence. The Government has decided forthwith to legislatively disqualify the Communists from sitting in the present Parliament. Ihe publication of the Communist newspapers is also forbidden. C IVY D EIIA NK E YICTTONS. LONDON. February 17. There were six evictions at ( lyticbank to-day. The crowd stoned and attacked the police. Three men were arrested. Barricades were again encountered at several houses and scalding water and nails were thrown at the sheriff’s officers. NOTABLE MURDER CASE. (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) REMIT, February 18. The Adjutant-General of the Alaliaraja of Indore’s army is the latest arrestee in connection with the attempted murder at Bombay ot Mamtaz Leir„,n .-cabled on 22ml January) and the murder of her protector. The case is remarkable for the number of highly placed persons under arrest with complicity. These include the aide do camp of the Ahhaiujah «’ dore, the steward on the Mahni.ij.ili* Bombay estates, army nml H*ce officers and also the girls fathu. A were refused bail.