BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuters Telegrams.] COMM U MISTS MUR DERED. POLK THE MURDERER. WARSAW, March 31. The murderer was a Polish police sergeant, Muraszko, travelling on the same train, who according to Polish semi-official statement suffered with his family from atrocious persecution at the hands of Soviet authorities, when living in Russia. .MOSCOW . March 51. Rosta states that the two Russian Communist officers who were sentenced to death by a Polish Court for an attempt to blow up the Warsaw iortress, and who were to he exchanged oil the Russo-Polish frontier for two Poles, and a priest arrested in Russia, were murdered in the train as they were going to the frontier. The Soviet representative at Warsaw has been instructed' to emphatically protest to Poland, demanding a strict enquiry, and the punishment of the murderers. WARSAW. March 31. The Polish version of the outrage is that one officer was killed and the other seriously wounded. The Judicial authorities in Warsaw have opened an enquiry into the outarge. which has caused a sensation in Poland and is unanimously condemned. WAR EXECUTIONS. [ R kuti:r3 Tur,e< iua m s .", (Received this day at 11.25 a.i11.) LONDON, March 31. In tile Commons, replying to a question, ill- Worthington Evans stated 23 Canadian and five New Zealand troops were executed for military offences during the war. EARN YPR MS. LONDON. March 31. Karl S’pres had a belter night, llis general condition is improved.

LATE LORD RAWLINSON. DELHI, -March 31

At a memorial service to Lord Rawlinson, the church was crowded with high civil and miliary officials, including Lady Rnwlinson. the 3 iceroy and Lady Reading, Governor of Punjab, and representatives of the King Emperor, Prime of Wales, and Prince Arthur of Connaught. The body was escorted l»v a military fj recess ion Iroiil Sindurao hospital to Kachmiri gate, where it will lie in state till the evening, when it will he conveyed to liombav with full military honours, and he taken Home in the troopship Assaye and buried in Trent.

EMPIRE WIRELESS POLICY

SEVERELY CRITICISED

(Received this day at 10.25 a.m.)

LONDON. March 31

The attitude of the Post Office towards the- Empire Wireless scheme was sharply criticised at a meeting of the Council of the Empire Press Union by Sir Alfred .Muml, who said that when he, at the invitation of the Labour Gov or u live lit. served on the Departmental Committee of the Post Ollicc to inquire into the development of Empire wireless, he found the majority ol the committee were civil servants and postal trade unionists clearly determined to do the least possible and always impressing on the other members of the committee the in.imonKanee of wireless compared with the Post Office cables and telegraphs. Kir A. Mond emphasised that Imperial wireless would only ho able to he devcoped on a large scale it taken out of the subordinate position it no" occupied in the Post Office. Fui-iher-m„re Kir A. Mond found on the committee a great lack of appreciation of Hie Imperial aspect of the subject. Lord Lurnham said he almost despaired of anything satisfactory coming from the present attempt to run wireless through the Post Office. JJe Lad j,, l ,b-<lined to •■onl inin- In Member ship on the Advisory l1 "’ Post Office because it was a waste "I time and an imposition on the mil.lie. Kir FI. Donald said the high power station which Sir Laming Worthington Evans Imped to L- open twelve months i,.ro was not vet completed. but it would probably he completed this year. II was more than eighteen months behind and something was happening with the other stations.. A resolution was passed requesting the Postmaster-General (Kir William Mitchell-Thompson) to state spei i i c;,|| v what he was doing to provide an efficient wireless service, when it would operate and on what lines it would he run.

GAPE TARIFF COMMENT

[Reuteus Telegrams.J

(Received this (lav at. 11.25 a.m.) CAPETOWN, -March 31. The “ Argus ” states it is an open secret that the Hoard of Trade and Industries reported adversely on Imperial preference. Foreign trade representatives have been approaching South Al-l-icon merchants urging them to accept new foreign agencies, on the grown that the Government’s new tariff policy will revolutionise the existing commercial situation. These gentlemen express themselves jubilantly as to the elfeet in destroying British pre-eminence in South African trade. The “Argus declares it is impossible to reconcile the abolition of preference policy with the close co-operation ol our bes friends, that Hert/.og wisely aid do« n mi accession to office. H could only regarded by the Kngish speaking population as a covert blow to the Imperial connection. Moreover, it is essentially unfair because they know Ihitam cannot haggle with the Dominions. M she concedes to one she must concede to all. Moreover, the spirit ol vvill in Britain to which South Atiu. owes much of its success on the British markets will he seriously imperilled.

A 1,1 EN BANKRUPTS. (Received this da- at 19.25 a.m > LONDON, March 31. ' The Home Secretary fSir W. .!»>•»■ j son Hicks) informed the 1!o ‘" a f , Trade that in eases where the registi.u . of Bankruptcy made a reeommem a- . ion he will seriously consider the cl - portal ion of alien bankrupts who evac . trading responsibility by questionable methods and leave their creditors m the lurch. LENINGRAD FOOD RRH'S RIGA. March 31. The food disturbances in Leningrad continue. Troops have Leon despatched and a number of arrests made. THE ABDUCTION CASE. DELHI. March 31. In the Mumtiv. ease, the chaffour ol the murdered man Hawla. who turned Kino’s evidence has received a pardon. He mnulialed his previous statement made to the polite that he was promised five thousand rupees by Maharaja, that he was informed when the abdimtion was to he carried out, and that ie was asked to stop llawla’s ear when the assailants ear collided with it. He declared the statement was made under police compulsion. : Sergeant Watkins gave evidence that Bawl a when in the hospital, in reply to a question declared Mumta/.’s stepfather was responsible lor the abduction. He added:— “They asked for my „i,.j. I refused, and they shot me.