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Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1925, Page 2

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. TABLE ASSOCIATION. £SOO AND COSTS. LONDON, February 24. In the action for breach of promise brought bv Airs Lubbock against Air Howes, a wealthy farmer, the jury awarded plaintiff £SOO and costs, and judgment was entered accordingly. Tlte Judge summing up, said lhe jury had to decide whether or not the defendant proposed while in a state of “ cratic aleholic imbecility.” * RISE OF ISLAM. LONDON, Feb. 23. The “Daily Chronicle's” special correspondent, after a visit to Jeddah, says:. “Ail important and mysterious conference is being held in Mecca be-_-tween Iban Sand, Sultan of Ncjd and S.iili Ahmed Sliereef, the Grand Sheik of Scmtssi. The former is tho chief of the fanatical Wahabis; who was captured at Alecca in October. lie is known as a strong believer in a holv war against infidels; and he cherishes the strongest enmity against the kings of trans-Jordania and Iraq. He has ambitions to form an All-Arab Realm, while Sidi Ahmed; who caused trouble in 1915-16 resulting in an armoured car expedition against the Senussi, has been under the influences of Enver Pasha and Kemal Pasha who fired him with a desire to .become Sultan of North and Central Africa; by joining forces with the Tripolitan rebels in order to drive out the Italians. Britain. France and Italy are all concerned in a threatened joint rising, adds the correspondent. WAR AVI Tli GERMS! LONDON, February 21. Air C. ,1. Ammon, who was Undersecretary to the Admiralty in the AlacDonaltl Government, speaking at Highbury, said: “ AA'lien 1 was a member of the Labour Government, I learned that the next war would he a picnic compared with the last. I happen to know that scientists in Britain and tho United States are inventing more high explosives and poison gasses, which will he poured out on the civilian masses; while in Italy they are discovering how disease germs may ho spread over vast areas.