BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuters Telegrams.] JAP WARSHIP LAUNCHED. TOKIO, April 22. The Akagi has been launched and will be completed in 1927. Her tonnage is 20.959 and speed 28* knots. Her armament includes 10 twenty centimetre and -1 twelve centimetre guns and 12 twelve centimetre anti aircraft guns. .She carries a large number of aeroplanes of all types. THE SPANISH PROBLEM. PARIS, April 23. King Alfonso, in an interview, defended General Do Rivera’s Directorship iit Spain, lie admitted that there must be a limit to the present anomalous position, but he felt that the country is not vet ripe for constitutional government. He added that the problem of the day is whether Parliamentary institutions can defend tho existing order against the Soviet spirit. Italy, he said, was the first country to realise that they could not. Spain had arrived at the -same conclusion. “ Who knows,” he asked, “whether the other nations will not eventually shelve their constitutions for a time?”

BOM RING FLEET. FOR SINGAPORE. LONDON, April 22. The Admiralty are experimenting with a new bombing living boat, with a view, it is understood, of including a .strung air licet in Singapore. THE CO AUNG BUDGET. LONDON, April 23. The “Daily Alail ” predicts a spectacular budget with sixpence, and possibly a shilling reduction in income tax, a comprehensive scheme of insurance for unemployment and sickness, pension for widows, and provisions for preferences in accordance with the Imperial Conference’s decisions. It adds that Air Churchill will not announce the date of the return to tho gold standard. A N'G 1,0-BF.LG 1A N FR ATERNITY. BRUSSELS, April 22. The arrival of a distinguished party at Bruges from England, including Sir Roger and Lady Keyes, the Fail and Countess of Cavan, Sir Fabian and Lndv Ware, and Lord Burnham, marks the beginning of several days of An-glo-Belgian demonstration, the central item of which is the unveiling by King Albert, of an imposing memorial at Zeehrugge on tho anniversary of the attack on the A!ok-.

BRITISH BIBLE SOCIETY. LONDON. April 23. High Far Eastern exchange and heavy costs of ocean passages of missionaries arc among the causes of a deficit of thirty thousand sterling in last year's operations of London Missionary Society. Similar deficits resulted annually for the previous two vears. The income for last year totalled Cl .‘FLOOD, the society budgeting an Income of £IOO,OOO next year.