BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 March 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

IUSTEAMAH AND N.Z. (.ABLE ASSOCIATION.

zaghlul- pasiia warned

CAIRO, March 10,

1 ngeanibey. on behalf of Sidkv Pasha, Minister of the Interior, called on Zaglilul Pasha this morning and warned him in regard to his alleged unauthorised meetings and nnti-Govcni-ihcul speeches at his house and requested Xaghlul I" take stops to remedy the position in order to obviate Government action.

* BRITISH. ARMY. LONDON, March 17. The House of Commons has agreed to the Army Estimates. A REMARKABLE SUICIDE. LONDON, March 10. Overwork, ill-health, and the fear of losing a life-time’s savings drove Joshua Baldwin Smith, aged 35, a clerk in the Swindon Corporation to suicide in an unprecedented iashion. lie was found there with his throat cut, and a razor in his hand, seven weeks alter his disappearance. The discovery was made by the purchaser of the house. MRS LCBBOCK OCT ON BAIL. LONDON, March 10. Mrs Lubbock, who secured damages for breach of promise against a wealthy farmer, and who is an carl’s daughter, was remanded on hail on a charge of obtaining one hundred pounds in talse representation, that she was the holder'of a lease of her residence and owned the furniture therein.

NOT DEAD YET. ißeceived this day at S a.m.) TOKIO, March 17. Viscount .Minim’s death is officially denied, hut his condition is very serious. LACK OF ARMY RECRUITS. LONDON, March 10. [,, tlm House of Commons, Sir L. Worthington Evans, introducing the :irniv estimates, expressed disquiet at vhe Imb that no fewer than 19,215 would-be recruits had been rejected medical or physical grounds, namely, five out of every eight. Next to ill health, the unemployment benefits he said, were the most important obstacle to recruiting. As regards the supplementary rosi>rve. Sir L. Worthington Evans emphasised the trade unions opposition Hi nolo, which opposition was due com,|v t., a misapprehension that this rc.-erve was meant for purposes of strike breaking. The War Office would proceed without the help ot the l limns; Mr S. Walsh, late Minister of Mar, re-retted the apprehension in regard in the -iippleii'.emary reserve, which fie attributed to the crass stupidity ,m the part of the recruiting sergeants. The difficulty might be removed if it u,-:e i:':i,!e ’dear that the reserve would onlv he called out in war time. AN INVENTOR’S DEATH. LONDON. March 16. At the inquest on the (. uiards, whose suicide was cabled on Marc« -p>ih. a verdict was returned of suicide while uf unsound mind, the husband hv self-inflicted wounds, and the wife hv gas poisoning. The evidence showed Hint both died before they were burnt. M. F“ Roy. a mechanical engineer, cave evidence that he work-c-tfwith Gniard on the latter's new invention. of which he knew the secret. a ,„! he Irelieved that eventual success was assured.

KIDX \BRING A COMM EXIST. LONDON. March 16. Quest iciied in the House of . (ominous. Mr Locker lampsmi said the Government was inquiring into the kidli;ni,;ing of Air Perritt. the Communist,

Rnhvay officials, replying to criticism a.s to why they did not interfere when M ■ Perritt was struggling with his captors, say they thought he was a madman under escort. Other eye-wit-nesses thought the captors, were detectives making an arrest.