BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Rkuters Telluuamh.j SOVIET AMBASSADOR IN JABAN. TO.KIO, April 23. M. Kopp, the Russian Ambassador, has arrived in Tokio and was received by large crowds. A strong police force was present owing to fears of a |xissible anti-Bolshevik demonstration, but all was quiet. INI) FSTRIA IJSTS CONFER. LONDON,, April 26. The seriousness of industrial stngnanation. largely due u foreign competition is re Hooted in the decision of the Shipbuilding Unions to join file-, employers in investigating a means of reviving the industry. Minors are holding a national ronfereme at Blackpool on June 30th. to receive a. report from employers and men's committee on steps to revive industry. The same meeting will discuss a proposal to restore the Triple Alliance. I.OBD READING. LONDON, April 27. Lord Beading and party have arrived. The Viceroy, in a statement, said there was not a word of truth in the rumours that he contemplated resigning. He was definitely returning to India on July 2-ltli. lie was not prepared to discuss the Indian situation til! he had conferred with Lord Birkenhead. Asked whether he would he willing to succeed Samuel in the High Ooinmissionership of Palestine, lie laughingly replied ‘T would not accept. the postion if you gave me Palestine itself.” RAZOR SLASHING GANG. TUBE AGENT HACKED. LONDON. April 20. five members of a' racing gang on Saturday savagely attacked Gcorgo Kent, a turf commission agent, near the Fusion station, slushing his face witii razors in a crowded thoroughfare. No one dared to intervene, and the attackers escaped. Kent fell to tho pavement unconscious and now lies in the hospital in a. critical condition. A similar gang previously slashed Kent from hand to elbow with razors.

A FATAL END. PARIS. April 27

Lois Jacquar. a well-known military availor, who recently was demobilised, purchased a cafci in'Lywns in partnership with another restaurant keeper, c.f- Paris. They purchased a- hydroplane. which 1 hey intended to use as an advertisement, offering a free ride to niiv customer who spent more than a bni’is. Jacquard piloted his partner and a customer on the first llight. Whon thev were crossing the river Snnne Ihe machine nose dived and crashed into a wall, killing all tlnee.

WAT 111 MINING COY. I ON DON. April 27

Tlie Waihi Geldmiiiing Company lias declared a dividend of two sliilliims for the year. The sum of £25.000 is being allocated to the dividend and oomdisatiim. and £26.030 to niine development. A sum of £IO.O-17 is wiitten off for denreeintion, and £17,816 carried forward.

\ DAY OF SACRIFICE. LONDON. April 27. The memory of the Aii'/uc was celebrated in solemn silence at a luncheon nf 1110 Australia and Now Zealand Club at Ihe Hotel Cecil, wlu-reat Lord .lellicne was the principal guest.. Sir .lames Alien. President, referred to his impending departure for Gallipoli to unveil a monument to the New Zealanders. , ; Lord .lelliioe mentioned the upbringing of New Zealand children to regard An/.ac Day a.s a day of seltsn, rifn-e, which was the spirit much needed throughout the Empire to-day. ] Old .lellicne concluded by declaring the 25th. April, 1915, was a day upon which the unity of the Empire had been achieved.

EFFECT ON LOAN. LONDON, April 2,. \ s a i-es-dL of the Presidential election Hie 7 per cent. German loan, which opened in London at 98. tell to 971 about two points lower than on