BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

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[Reuters Telegrams.l

THE CHINESE STRIKE. (Received tins day at 10.25 a.m.) PEKIN, February 21. The strike situation a;t Shanghai is easier. Intimidation lias been stopped and two mills employing seven thousand have decided to resume tomorrow. It is reported tlie strikers reduced their demands to applying for a cessation, of assaults by the overseers and reinstatement of all employees without victimisation. The demand for increased pay has keen dropped . OBITUARY'. STOCKHOLM, February 21. Obituary—The ox-ITcmior, Al. Branting. ENT) R.MO US POSTERS. (Received thus day at 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 2-1. The world’s largest posters—tClt. long hv 10ft. deep—are being erected throughout the country to advertise Wembley.

SHORTER SKI UTS. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Fob. 21. In the Yorkshire west riding textile manufacctuiers are seriously perturbed at a further reduction in women’s skirts. Air Elmsley. President of the Textile Institute, in a statement said that wool was at present dear, and prices of fabrics had gone up to meet this, while dress designers used less material. Recently he increased the price of cloth upon which the dress designers said it would he necessary to use a quarter of a yard less in the dress in order to avert increase in the retail cost.

Oilier manufacturers pointed out that every inch the skirts were shortened would mean a corresponding curtailment in employment at the mills. High prices were the cause ol higher skirts.

JEWISH EMIGRATION. [Reuters Telegrams.] •.'Received this day at 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 24. The Colonial Office states that II .8->l Jews immigrated to Palestine in 1024 while 2037 emigrated, a net increase of 9814 as compared with 3788 in 1923. Immigration has somowhat changed in character in past months, a large proportion being with means. A .substantial number were founding new industries and there was practically no Jewish unemployment. SUSPECT RELEASFD. CAIRO, Feb. 24. Nokrnshi Rev (umler-Secretary for Interior in the Xaphlul Government) who was detained in connection with the inquiry into the murder of the Sirdar, has been released. BRITISH POLITICS. LONDON. Feb. 24. In the Commons, Air Chamberlain announced that Government at present was not sending an Ambassador to .Moscow. Tt was desirable to await fresh developments. Air Kirkwood asserted that Air AfarDonald presided at a meeting of the Labour Executive, which appointed him as spokesman for the attack on the Prince of Wales's tour. ZANNUS FLIGHT. VANCOUVER. February 24. The Argentine aviator Captain P. L. Zamii, will resume his flight round the World, starting from Tokio on the Ist. of May.

According to Patricio Murphy, an attache at tho Argentine Legation in Tokio, who has arrived at Victoria, to make final arrangements, the Pacific will he crossed by the Aleutian route to Vancouver. Thence Zauai goes to San Francisco, New York and Newfoundland. Zunni will attempt to cross the Atlantic in one k.oo. to Cork. /mini has already covered twelve thousand miles in 115 hours Irom Argentina to Tokio.