BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CJABLM ABSOCIAIION MOW YANKOFF WAS KILLED. SO El A, April 21. 'I he police last night discovered the hiding place of l'anko/f, one of the Communist leaders. When summoned to surrender Yankoff fired and threw hombs. The police fired a fusilade. killing Yankoff. .JAP .MILITARY REFORM. TOKIO, April 21. The War Office’s military reform programme includes readjustment, the establishment of a national mobilisation system, the revision of the conscription law, the inauguration of oil and steel policies, and the encouragement of aviation, especially me aeronautical industry; also the establishment- of an

air service separate hut of equal status with the rest of the services.

FR ANCO-CH LNA AOJ!EE.UKNT. I’F.KTN, April 21. It is understood that letters have been exchanged between the Foreign -Minister and the French Minister settling the gold franc question. The agreement will lie issued .simultaneously to-day in Paris and Pekin. The French agree that the unpaid balance of the French share of the IJoxer indemnity lie retroceded to Chinn. The French also agree to consider service to be resumed from Ist. De: ember 102-1. instead of Ist. Dot ember 1022, refunding China the twenty-four monthly instalments which have- matured but were postponed. China agrees that the balance of the indemnity is to he calculated on the basis of telegraphic transfer in accordance with the 1905 protocol with the eventual exchange profit which might have resulted from this mode of payment, which should be converted into American gold dollars and advanced to the ISanqnc Industrielle by annuities from the Ist 'December 102-1, to- 10-17 in order to secure a loan issued in grid dollars hearing five per cent interest, redeemable in twenty-three years. The bonds to he issued as above will he. applied to Far Eastern creditors of the liaiique ilndustriclle a,ml the Francio-Chinese Educational and philanthropic institutions, according to conditions yearly determinable at Pekin.

THOUSANDS LEA VINO IRELAND. LONDON, April 21.

Emigration from the Free State to America is assuming vast proportions. Twelve hundred young men and women sailed on Ifftli April. The exodus during the winter averaged between lour and six hundred weekly. I housands have already booked passages lor the next week-end. Seven lines, including

two Herman, are engaged in the enii grant traffic.

HERMAN FINANCES.

(Received this clay at 10.2*5 a.in., BERLIN, April 21. The Heidi’s revemie returns for the year ending 131st .March show the total revenue was seven thousand: million marks, this being a surplus of two thousand million marks over the estimates. The revenue from income las and customs shows a surplus ol nine hundred million marks and four hundred and fifty million marks respectively over the estimates. THE NEW WEMBLEY. LONDON, April 21. Sir 11. Stevenson presided at the press luncheon at "Wembley lor a preliminary view id' the pavilion. He introduced .Mr Lee Neil who announced that Australia was spending fifty thousand sterling on advertising propaganda- in the British Isles. There are- many new pictures in the , N ctt . Zealand pavilion, notably a huge diorama from the summit ol Mount. Tarawera depicting flu: geysers and

springs in active, eruption, wlmros on the hillside. There are others typical of the Alps and running waterlalls. New Zealand is concentrating oil the sales of products and immigration propaganda. Canada again lias a most showy am. most expensive display including a diorama 250 feet long, depicting the country from the Pacific to the Atlantic; also a model in flutter of the initiation of the Prince'of Wales into the White Mountain tribe of Indians. TTTF., DEATH PENALTY. ROME, April 21. Deputy Fariiiicfi is bringing, in a bill reintroducing the death l'enalty for murder, but there is little chance of it passing. Mussolini is strongly opmwcd thereto on the ground that capital punishment is contrary to public opinifm.

THORNE’S EXECUTION TO-D A A

FATHER’S FAREWELL MESSAGE

(Received this da\ at 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, Anvil 21. Thorne senior, in a farewell letter to Normaii, whose execution, despite an imitation fur bis reprieve, occurs to-.-.vs .—“Keep brave and morrow, m\s. steadfast- your Iriends cannot think ( ,r von as a murderer. W e hate in assurance we shall meet you in Heaven where there will be no more partings or sorrow, and our tears will he wiped awav. Clod grant you a g orious entry into his Heaven I v T\ingdom, "lieudear mother is waiting to welcome

‘’Thome, senior, interviewed, said lint perhaps Norman’s death would , others, and ,ni«ht make the ih.pnnse and think what a lorn hie thini'- the death penalty is; onh » se mistakes eannot be rectified. Tie did not wish to say harsh Dungs, > { ) t he did not think he had air play Perhaps the (piestion would he raised in the Commons.