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Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1925, Page 2

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ICSTBALIAN AND N.Z. LABLIC ASSOCIATION, SUN YAT SEN’S FUNERAL. PEKIN, March *2O. Dr Sun Yat Sen’s remains were escorted l>v three aeroplanes, and transferred to the Central Park, following on a private Christian Funeral service, in accordance with the deceased’s request. A*. The streets of the capital were"' densely packed. The procession took half an hour to pass a given point. It included his relatives, the representatives of the chief Executive Government, and oi the Labour Unions, and also a large party of Soviets, headed by Karakhan, carrying a red flag, and followed by the members of the Kuomintang Executive, with a flag, also of the Canton Administration. There were forty-eight Kuomintang pall beaters. SCENES OF VIOLENCE. X PARIS, March 21. In the Chamber of Deputies during the evening there were scenes of almost unparallelled violence, in which opposing Deputies freely indulged in fisticuffs, terminating the hitherto or- > derlv debate on the withdrawal of the French Embassy from the Vatican. The sitting was suspended. The trouble arose from Premier llerriot s remark in winding up the debate. After admitting the good work that Catholicism had done in the past, lie added: put then it was pure Catholicism, and not the banker’s Catholicism of to-day.” On the resumption of the Chamber the Rightist member, the Marquis do Ferronays who protested against tho Premier’s remark, said that it "‘as a crave insult to entire Christendom. He was ordered to leave the Chamber but be refused to go. The uproar was then renewed. The Marquis finally left, accompanied by friends singing • •The .Marseillaise.” Subsequently tho Chamber passed a vote of confidence in the Government.

WOULD PEACE CONFERENCE. SAN FRANCISCO, March 21. An international conference for the promotion of world peace opens here on November fit!,, 102(3. It was announced to-day that invitations have - been extended to all nations, as well ns to the heads of all religious, educational and peace organisations. attempt to wreck: train. DELHI, March 20. A dastardly attempt to wreck a Punjab Mail train while it was passing over sandy wastes in the Sind Desert is reported from Karachi. A slow passenger train, proceeding in the opposite" direction, dashed into a rail placed across the line. An investigation showed that fifty yards of the mail train’s line had been uprooted, and the rails placed on the opposite line. Urgent distress signals caused the mail train to pull up within one hundred feet of the hreech.

MR MacDONALD AGAINST 0.11. U LONDON, March 20.

Mr Ramsay MacDonald, in a significant speech’ in his constituency, said that there was talk of the miners, the railwavmcii and the engineers acting together. There could be no greater calamifv than to have a great block unions on one side and capital on the other, engaged in a suicidal industria conflict. He wanted to see the combinations of workers demanding rig its , hut, meanwhile, so doing their duty that public opinion would sec them through their difficulties. AIR SUPREMACY. ■LONDON. March 21. i| Thomson the Labour ex-Aii Minister, has arrived Don. America where he studied tho air mail and passenger service between New Yom and San Francisco. He said that d Britain developed an air route to Australia via India.and Singapore, and in conjunction with America developed airship traffic across the Atlantic, t o English-speaking peoples will girdle the earth, and make their, position in the world or new transportation an impregnable one.

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