BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULB ASSOCIATION POLISH VIEWS. (Received this day at 10.25 a.in.} WARSAW. April 28. 11 indcnhiirg's election lias deeply impressed polish public opinion. The newspapers are. conlidciit (ho Allies will take steps to secure themselves against the return of German aggression. .JAPANESE ARREST. TO KlO. April 28. Royhei Crhida. Chiel ol the Black Dragoon Society, ultra I’ltseists oi Japan has been arrested lor alleged complicity in a plot to assas-inate Premier Kato, discovered a month ago. EMPIRE WIuriLESS. LONDON. April 28. The Postmaster-General replying to resolutions of the Empire Press Tnii.n has sent the Union a summary of recent Enipiru v. ireh-ss developments w hi' h is identitnl w ith the statement in the Commons. He mentions that Canada. South Africa, and India have ac: cited the invitation to he represented i n the wirch'ss committee, but the Caiiinonwealth and the New Zealand Governments have not yet replied. lICGK GOVERNMENT TRADING LOSSES. ('Received this day at 11.2.1 a.in.) LONDON. April 23. The report of the Auditor-General on trailing Government departments for the year ended 31st. March. B)2t shows the Wheat Commission's nett loss was £38,000.000 representing approximately tin* cost of the bread. Ihe subsidy or home grown timber supplies involved a loss of £(i,dnt).!H)o. The 10-s on trade in zinc concentrates was over £2.030.11l 10. There was an increase during the year of £33(5.00,'1 in the reserve. Three quartet's of n million was provided to meet losses in 1023-21. (oncoming which it is commented. that it is impossible to lorecast what the ultimate loss on this service '.till he, hut the provision of £750.(I! :0. though sufficient at present, is likely to fall considerably la'hnv the ultimate losses on contracts with British smelters.

N.Z. El (IST' AOATN. GENEVA. April 27

The New Zealand Government has informed the Secretariat of the i-oa-gue of its willingness to contribute the timber .for pannclling cue ol the rooms in the now assembly hall of the league of Nations, which has not yet been built. This is the lir.st oiler ol the kind received from any Government. SERBIAN COMMENT. (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) BELGRADE, April 28. The newspapers comment on I lindenburg's election pessimistically. A semiofficial organ, the “Retch", declares the election is a fresh defiance to Europe and the civilised world. The election will he the. starting point of a campaign for the amendment <4 all treaties and the elimination of all olslaclcs in the way of Germany again becoming mistress oi tho world. TO STTDY HESSIAN CONDITIONS. .MOSCOW. April 28. A deign t ion of five British Trade Cniouist women have arrived to studv the position of working women in Russia. C'RoWBOROEGH TRAGEDY. (Received this day at 12.11) p.m.) LONDON. April '-’B. The C'rowhoi'oiigli Magistrates ro-

Ilia lulcd George Jell'rev. aged fifteen, charged with the murder of Joan Auiictt. Being miller sixteen he should he sent on remand to hi- home, hut the polite obtained an order lor hi- committal to prison. It is understood tout this is intended to facilitate the Deetors’ observation in view ot the hoy s medical history.

A! A DAME / OLA. I’Alt IS, April 28. The death is reported of Madame Zola, wife of the laic Emile Zola, the famous French novelist. She narrowly escaped death when the novelist was asphyxiated by gas in 1902.