BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

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'MURDER. CONFESSIONS. Cairo, April 21

Confessions by several arrested in connection with the murder of the Sirdar have been published. Tlie.se show that after the breaking down of the negotiations between Mr R. MacDonald ami ex-Rremier Zaghlul. tile members of a vengeance society, called the Redeemers, met at the bouse of Clialik Mansour, who was a Deputy, and decided upon a political murder, and the Sirdar wrs clioi-eu as the victim. Rashid commiltedthe murder, assisted by live others. Clialik agreed that a political assassination would help the independence movement.

( iialik. however, now declares that the murder was only decided upon ill principle at Ills bouse. He says that he always feared that such a crime would endanger Egypt.

In view id the confessions, the trial should begin in the middle of .May, and will last only a few days.

Tims far, 150 persons have been arlested on suspicion, and four of the actual revolvers have been tumid. INCOME TAX REDUCTION. LONDON. April 21. With the prospect of Mr Winston Churchill delivering hi-, Budget on Tuesday, the newspapers are freely speculating on the prospects of taxation reduction. It is generally expected that lhc.ro will be at least sixpenro in the pound taken off the income tax. Several writers even prophesy a shilling.

It is admitted that such relief can only he accomplished by some drastic in east MX', such as the landing ol the war pension.':, or the raising ol a. sinking fund. Colonel Jackson, .speaking at Hull, emphasised the burden of taxation, and expressed the opinion that Mr Churchill would show imagination and produce a Budget calculated lo assiat trade. IiI.ACKABLER MURDER. LONDON, April 21. Milrv Rich, a domestic servant, told tlw .Magistrate that the youth, Khotles on the eve of the murder, remarked: "| mi) going to do in (irate Blaekaller and myself, because she is fooling me about. ’ Just before tin* fatal meeting, Rhodes tapped bis waistcoat pocket, saying ‘‘The raxor is bore!’ Witness replied. "Don't be silly. Next morning site found Rhodes crying in the kitchen, lie said: ‘Aon ' : j see in .Saturdays papers wliat I have

Rhodes’s .sister screamed when called to the witness box. Speaking hysterically, she said that Rhodes loeeived an injury to be- head in inianev, which had never properly closed. lie bad consulted several specialists in Germany, where he was living in 1917. He was a butt for school boys, because be was all right one slay and silly the next. LONDON. April 22. At the resumed ‘inquest on Grave Blaekaller, deceased's sister said she wished to correct a previous statement that ile"eased was ./(dm Blaekaller’,s youngest daughter. She was Airs Blackaller'.s illegitimate daughter, born after Blaekaller’s death. Mrs Blnekaller admitted Grave was born (j or 7 years after her first hu-band's death.

VERDICT OF WILFUL MUR DEB LONDON. April 22.

Mrs June-: .gave evidence that Grace was the daughter of her husband whdied a decade ago. She separated from be,- husband four years 1 ••feeding (Jrnci’Ls birth. Tlio CSr«MK*r summing nn said tho ease' throw a peculiar light on the

M ,:-iii| condition* of certain classes, perhaps all (lasses of modern days. It was a tragedy of pa'cntal ne.'Jevt exhibited in an extreme ebaractor. whaf v.'a.s called the emancipation of tlie sexes. He returned a verdict of wilful murder by Rhodes. LINER'S HOLD A KIR hi. (Received this day at 10.20 a.m.) (’A I’KTOWN. April 2d. The Blue Kunnel liner, Aeneas, bound from Australia, to l.omlou has arrived at Durban with a fire raging in her alter bold. After a two days light, wlieu much of the cargo was removed and tbe bold Hooded to a depth of 18 feet, the outbreak was extinguished. The damage will amount to between ten and twenty thousand sterling. IRISHMEN IMPRISONED IN ENGLAND. I .ON DON. April 22. After a two days bearing the court discharged tlie rule nisi for a " nt ol habeas corpus on behall ol Maguire. Mr Justice llewart, m delivering judgment expressed the opinion that the provisions of the Penal Servitude Act made it clear that .Maguire’s detention in Madislone Gaol was lawlul. [A cable on tbe dOth March said Tlie first step in a case affecting numerous Irishmen imprisoned in hnghsh n-ijuls has been taken. Mr Slesser applying for a writ of habeas corpus in connection with Maguire, sentenced to four years penal servitude at l.ellast in D)2H and now incarcerated m M.iulstone. Gaol. The justice of convietion j, not questioned but the issue has been raised whether a person convicted in Ireland could legally be imprisoned in England. Tbe writ was granted, and will bo argued at the beginning ot next session.l

AN ARAB F.r.rrTßS

BRITAIN’S AIMS

(Received this day nt 10.20 a.m.) JERUSALEM, A]nl 22. An Arab delegation petitioned the Hon L C. M • ft- Amery (t’olonial See.) for self-government, protesting tnatthev are over-taxed. They urged that Britain should abandon her lutile Zionist experiment and intcnsiie ■ cais t immigration, including undesirables, ttlio had ruined Palestine economically and detracted from British prestige. The Hon. Amery replied that Britain was striving for an independent Are > Empire. ~.r , , MAIHE CORED! J’b ) H; '• I.ON DON- April 2-. The Chancery Court has been asked to interpret tlm will of Mane whom counsel described as an adopt child whose origin was ‘j There was no known next ol km ami the question is whether Bertha A >x * of Stratford, a life-h.ng friend ol novelist is entitled to tae ~ 0.000 d_ posited in the Bank ot Scotland. H was admitted that Yvver was entitle. .s . u after the death of ‘ho tenant.i T of how the royalties on her books weie nwj. ~ LONDON. April 22. fr„m everv part of the Empire mil W on sale. ' Burnside will also run five fruit kiosks in various parts ot the Exhibition.