BRITISH & FOREIGN’NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN’NEWS

[Reuters Telegrams.]

NEW BELGIAN PARLIAMENT.

BRUSSELS, April 9.

The Now Chamber consists of 78 Catholics, 77 Socialists, 24 Liberals, I extreme Flainigant, two Communists, and one Independent. Tho principal change in the parties as compared with the old Chamber i$K that the Socialists gain 7 seats and the Liberals lose nine.

FRENCH SQUABBLE

PARIS, April 7. The French Senate by 138 votes lo L 34 censured the attitude of the Almiser of Public Instruction in connecioujwitli the Quartier Latin incident, ■allied on Alarch 29th. when students 'ought against a Socialist Professor’s m .installation. The pbarges .levelled against tJUJf Minister are those of assailing the Fa-, ■ulty of Law’s rights, and abolishing the 'liberties of higher education,.thereby offending the entire University.

THORNE’S TRIAL. LONDON, April 7. Throughout both his trial and tho hearing of the appeal proceedings Norman Thorne maintained the most composed bearing. He stood transfixed when Lord Hewart announced the dismissal of his appeal. He seemed stunned when the warders removc<W4*jrtn from tho dock, hut he immediately broke down, and the corridor rang with his sobs and moans, punctuated with cries of “I didn’t do it!” Lord Hewart said that it was idlo to contend that, the verdict was against the weight of evidence,, which was overwhelming,.. The Court, he said, would long hesitate to hand over tho jury's functions to a hoard of medical experts. Nothing in this case had made it in the least desirable to do

SO. \ Dealing with the plea of the jury having been misdirected, Lord Hewart said that the Court was unanimous that Judge Finlay had summed up admirable. To put it plainly there wa . nothing in the appeal except the circumstances that it happened to bo a conviction for murder.

EXCHANGE OE TERRITORY. CAIRO, April 8. It is understood that Italy has offered Egypt a strip of territory from Tripoli t.s compensation for Egypt’s .surrender of the dera.bub oasis.

The Egyptian press however, claims that the" inhabitants of Jerabub desire to remain under Egyptian rule, and the Government has despatched commission to obtain a proof of statement.

ARMY DEATH PENALTY. PARIS,, April 7

\ war memorial has been inaugurated at A'ingrc in honour of six hundred soldiers of the 298th. Infantry, who wore wrougUilly shot, hut -whoso innocence was alterward.s vindicated. A plaque on the monument states that the memorial has been erected as an act of homage, hy their ex-soldier comrades, to the memory of the innocent victims of an example.

IXCOAIE TAX COMEDY. . PARIS, April _ ,\ comedy of bureaucracy has been disclosed. A tradesman whose taxes amounted from six to seven thousand fronts annually received a demand for thirty-two francs eleven centimes. Ho paid ' thirty-two francs. lle "’ a . s offi ‘ Hally warned that tinless lie paid the eleven centimes, his furniture would be seized. To-day the authorities seized two tables, one sideboard, three chairs and one gas radiator, which they are selling in order to recoup one halfpenny.

GOOD FRIDAY. LONDON, April 7. No newspapers will he published England on Good I' riday.

KURDS AND TURKS. LONDON. April 8,

'l'|, e c,rst direet nows of the Kurdish revolt lots been cabled by Mr (’. JKetehum. the correspondent o! the •• Daily Kxoress.” from Tovan, on the Turk-Kurdish frontier. The eorrespondent states :—“ Contrary to the Turkish oilicial reports of the suppression ot the rising, disturbances in the l)iarbckir district continue. Kurd rebels were encountered a few days ago on the outskirts of Persim, strongly entrenched. and they were driven ba«S« after Ib-rcc lighting. Sharp Conflicts' also have occurred recently at Musliemnlatia and other towns in the Piar|,ekir area. The main Turkish forces wliich have arrived via the Baghdad railwav through Krench Syria, are concentrated in the Piarbekir and Piths areas ”

•'[’lie plan of eampaign, "lion tlio reinforcements arrive Ironi the Tinhish reserves on the Hessian frontier, will he to press eastwards on the line of liiLlis to Kairrt.” ‘•Complete calm prevails in the forward areas of Mesopotamia. The British airmen there, find Indian and Mesopotamia troops are in readiness; for anv emergency, but Mr Ketchum" is of the opinion that Turkey is too occupied at present to think of adventures in the direction of Mosul.” ■ The motive for the Kurdish outbreak appears to he a religious war against Mustnpha Kernel Pasha and lsinel Pasha for the restoration of the Caliphate. The full effect of the blow struck at the Moslem faith by the expulsion of the Ottoman dynasty and the Caliph has only just penetrated to' the remoter regions, and the fanatical tribesmen are now roused to the fiercest struggle, believing that without the Caliphate they are deprived jIT" their only medium of communication with God.

A POLTTICAIii HOAX

LONDON, April 7

Tlit-? “Daily Kxpress” Cairo cor respondent says: ‘‘A l>ar altercation in a (’aii ) hotel lias revealed the amassmg milliner in which Zagldoul rashshoaxed the Kgyj.tian Parliament, steurino Ins recent election triumph. A Zaghloulist deputy between cocktails. lamented that the dissolution had deprived him of a chance of liecoming for Justice. Another Zaghloulist intervened:—-“That’s lie! Zugliloul promised me the Minis!|£ try of .rustic**.” A heated argument finally showed that the night before the opening of Parliament, Zaghloul Pasha summoned the Zaghloulist deputies, and divide*! them into five or six groups in diifercnt rooms. Entering each room, in turn, he told the deputies there that he had come to an agreement with King Fund and the British that, in the event of a Zaghloulist majority, he would form a Cabinet. Accordingly he was “choosing the Ministry forthwith, which would inelude four Unionists having good relations with the Palace.” After having mentioned the names of the Ministers in each room Zaghloul Pasha charged those chosen not to approach their suggested Unionist colleagues, adding l *' that it was desirable to keep the arrangement secret. Thus lie formed a Cabinet with four different Unionist ministers in each room. The eagerness of the Unionists to obtain posts resulted in securing Zaghloul Pasha 123 votes, instead of ninety-two, Altogether forty-seven deputies wore hoaxed into the belief that they would be Ministers,