BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1925, Page 4

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. OABLB ASSOCIATION FRANCE AM) CHINA. (Received this day at 10.2-5 a.m.) PEKIN, April 17. With reference to the reported gold train; agreement, the French Minister slates the agreement which is now negtiateil and the basis of which has been determined by each side contains the principle of resuming payment according to the 1005 arrangement, namely, by means of telegraphic transfer. OBITUARY. LONDON. April 17. Obituary—Sir Godfrey Isaacs, Chairman of the Marconi Coy. PRINCE OF WALES. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) ZARIA. April 17. The Prince of Wales lias arrived at /.aria (Nigeria), the centre of the coton growing indusry, this morning. In reward for a spell at piloting the train, the Prince has been presented with the mileage sheet, showing tenpence was due to him. which he smilingly accepted after signing. Forty local Europeans were presented to the Prince. JAPAN’S ARMAMENTS. PARIS. April 10. M. Hubert, ex-Mmister for the Colonies, writing in " La Revue,” says: “ Japan's military organisation was perfect lasi October, though she has since reduced every battalion by a company. The .number of machine guns has been increased. Japan’s light ship programme will give her supremacy in t In- Pacific within three years. The Yokohama Arsenal was destroyed by the earthquake, but it is being reconstructed most rapidly. Aviation is making great progress, and the Naval Air Service possesses at least live hundred machines. Intensive propaganda is being-conducted in favour of the development of aviation. A chair of aviation have been created at Tnkio ITiiversitv.

lIAARMAN’S HR AIN. 'Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) It El? LIN, April 18. The authorities have granted the request of the Gottingen Cniversity tliat eminent psychiatrists and scientists should examine the body of Haarman in order to discover the reasons for his fiendishuess. It is stated the majority of his victims were practically bitten lo death. Probably the I niversitv will preserve 1 laarmaii’s brain. A PRIEST SENTENCED. (Hece’ved this dav -at 8.30 a.m.) MOSCOW, April 17. The Court at Leningrad sentenced a priest to six years’ imprisonment on a charge of assaulting women during the cuiir.se of his official duties as a member of the Polish reparation commission. The accused’s demand to be handed over to the Polish authorities was dismissed on the grounds that the Polish Government recognised the competence of the Soviet court.