BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

["Tn- Times” Service.] RE SSI A AND CHINA. ' PEKIN. May 27. liasmaussen has been released and hns rcturno*! Imihh*. A Soviet Kmluissy note insists that the military authorities he enjoined to immediately return Harbin youths to their parents, regardless of the wishes of the youths themselves. All further enlistments must cease and all implicated persons he prosecuted.

LIBEL ACTION SETTLED. [Reuters Telegrams.] (Received this day at 11.25 a.in.) LONDON. May 27. A .settlement is announced in life libel action of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders against the British Empire Exhibition, I!i2l. and Sir Lawrence Weaver, in respect to an interview Weaver published in the newspapers on January loth, which plaintiffs contended unwarrantably suggested the reason the Society refused permission for members to exhibit at Wembicv. The Society included a large body of traders interested in foreign cars. Defendants unreservedly withdrew the statement, apologised and paid plaintiffs’ costs. SOVIET APPOINTMENT. (Received this day at 11.25 a.in.l MOSCOW. May 27. It is officially announced that Trotskv lias been appointed a member of the Presidium, the Supreme Economic Council, and Chairman of the General Concessions Committee. GERMANY AND DISARMAMENT LONDON, May 27. Britain anil France have practically agreed to demands to be incorporated in a note to Germany on the subject of disarmament. Tile next stage is for the Reparations Commission which meets on 2!ltli May to slate whether Germany lias carried out her obligations under the Dawes Plan. When both linaueial and disarmament obligations have been carried out. ( olngne will be evacuated. BULGARIAN TRIAL. SOFIA. May 27. The trial of persons accused of sheltering conspirators concerned in the Cathedra loutrage lias ended. The Agrarian. Perrlie Licit' l.egeix a nil M ndame Xiculuva were sentenced to death. Madame l.egcr to imprisonment for life, and Malet to eighteen months. FILIPINO REBEL-. MANILA. May ■_>7. A eosntalnilary at trick was made oil Sultan Sa Raya, the Mohammedan leader at l.anao, which has been holding the fort for many weeks, despite the personal visit of Governor Wood to Lilian, seeking to persuade hint to surrender. Seven Morns were killed, but a large number escaped. including probably the Sulian. BLOW AT WORLD REVOLCTTON. (Received this day at 12 noon). LONDON. May 27.

The “Daily Mail's” Riga enrresrondent says that through the influence of Dyerjinski, chief of the C licks. I rotsky has returned to Moscow and has been appointed to an important .post on the Supreme Council of National Economy. Trotsky becomes practically the economic director. The DyorjinskiTrolsky combination is expected to swing the right, modifying the Ccin-

miinist policies. The appointment is regarded as a blow at Ziuoviefl s elforts to promote a AXorld revolution. IRISH GIRL SMFGGLEKS. (Received this day at II uni.) LONDON, May L’7. Belfast women are adopting piquant ruses to .smuggle silk goods into Iho Free State .eresi the frontier, wearing half a dozen pairs of stockings and other lingerie. Sylphlike girls leave their Free State homes, go to Lister and return curiously shapeless, wearing a number of corsets. One girl recently accompanied a cofiin. supposed to contain the body o! her husband, but it was really Idled witu champagne, powder pull’s, and underclothing. WASTE IN THE ARMY. LONDON. May 27. The Army accounts disclose that seventy-five tanks of a new type ordered in 191 P and costing one million sterling were scrapped after they were tirst delivered owing to .their uselessness, while HE) million rounds of war time rifle ammunition was condemned as unserviceable. AN EMIGRANT 13. LONDON. May 27. A record contingent of L rty-iiine public S. hoolboy migrants is embarking for New Zealand on Saturday. The same steamer carries an Irishman with a family of thirteen, the youngest twins agetl eighteen months and the eldest nineteen. The father is inly thirty-seven.

foundling hospital removal. LONDON, May 27. Interest attaches to the impending removal of the famous foundling hospital at Bloomsbury to the country mid purchase of its site of fifty-six acres at a lost of a million and three quarters bv a CV.infany for building purposes, by the fact that one (1 t directors of the company is .Sam CopIcy. the West Australian millionaire who achieved fame a few years ago by purchasing a large slice of Huddersfield, bis birthplace, mid presenting it tc the corporation. SHARE MARKET. LONDON, -May 27. Mt. Lyell Shares 2‘Js fid to 21s. UNIVERSITY HOAX. (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) LONDON. May 23.

When many prominent citizens and visitors presented themselves for admission to the University graduates conversazione last night, they lound they were the holders of t urged invitations issued by some persons unknown. As the available accommodation was tilled hv official invitations, they had to be turned away. The authorities learned of the plot during the alternoon and took prompt action. Guards were posted at all entrances and a squad oi police was brought up. About four hundred were sent hack. Ihe majoiity took the situation philosophically. Some were annoyed at being duped hut the services of the police were not required. A I.LEGED CONSI’IRACY. WASHINGTON. May 27.

Fall, Sinclair and Dolieny was reindicted by the Federal Grand Jury which has been taking new evidence in the oil lease eases action. It is a sequel to the dismissal of the former indictments cabled on April 3. Alice Pomeree and Owen Roberts, special Government Counsel.'obtained new Grand Jury for June 12th.. and submitted fresh evi- 1 deuce, resulting in the latest development. Two indi< tments were returned, the first charging Fall and Sinclair with conspiring to lease Teapot Dome, the naval oil reserve, without competitive bidding, and the second charging Fall and Dolieny with the same offence regarding the Californian reserve. Government have apparently dropped the bribery accusation against Fall and Doheny.' There is no indictment against Doheny’s son, Edward, who was formerly indicted.