BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

tUCTKALIAN AND N.Z. CABLH ASSOCIATION. NEW SOUTH WALES LOAN. LONDON. May 28. The lists of the New South Wales loan closed automatically. The result is at present not known, hut the financial writers agree that a proportion of the loan has been left 011 the hands of j the underwriters who are confident that the stock will he speedily absorbed. The Board of Underwriters will take (iSt per cent, of the New South Males loan.

TROTSKY’S YI EWS. LONDON. May 27. The “Times’s” Riga correspondent says M. Trotsky declared that the British Trade Unions were the greatest / revolutionary factor in Europe, in the first speech he made since his rehabilitation in office, which restoration tho Soviet organs reflect by publishing his speech verbatim. The 1 orrespondent adds that theo observations of his generally coiucuTed with recent Communist International Congress resolutions, indicating that they apparently are • striving to showhow solidly it supports the Communist leaders. Trotsky added that what is called the British Unions’ leftwards movement is being assisted by Europe’s' - oi-ntinuous decline, which has transformed Britain into a mere American broker. He said the biggest fact in contemporary history was the antagonism of Europe to America. GENEVA CONFERENCE. GENEVA, May 27. During the discussion on workmen’s compensation while considering, tho pro; oval of the Irish Free State, urging the exclusion from compensation schemes of non-manual workers, whoso ~~ remuneration exceeded a fixed limit, Professor McNeill (Ireland) asked the Committee to approve an amendment submitted by the employers’ group, which provided that those in receipt of considerable salaries were well able to insure themselves and they would loso their sense- of responsibility if they submitted to a general compensation scheme.

The Night Bakery Committee carried the amendments provi.siona.hlly adopted by the convention to the effect that tho beginning and limit of the rest period shall ho fixed by n competent authority in the country, after consultation with the organisation of the employers and the workers.

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. LONDON, A lay 20. The question of guilt of Mary Queen of Scots, which has intrigued historians for centuries Ts now claimed to ho definitely cleaned up hv means of an impartial scientific investigation, carried out by Air Ainsworth Miteliel!, editor of the newspaper “Analyst,” assisted hv the Home Office’s expert. Mr Mitchell is describing his investigation in the current number of the newspaper “Discovery.” He says that he lias spent several years in collecting, examining, and photographing the original records, documents, ink parchment. seals, and hand-writ-ing. v Inch he lias scientifically examined exactly as though Queen Alary

were now under trial. lie declares that the result delinitelv proved that Alary could not have written the letters upon which her guilt 'chietlv depended. The real guilty party, he says, was A\ illiani Maitland, her Secretary, and betrayer. The evidence now found would undoubtedly, in the present day, have cleared Mary .and convicted Al aitland. A MINE DISASTER. NEW YORK, Alay 28. At Raleigh. North Carolina, fifty n „.i, have been entombed in Carolina Coal Company’s mine as the result of w ,s explosion. Dense fumes have thus far prevented the work of dealing the mine. SOFIA EXECUTIONS. SOFIA. Alay 28. In the presence oi forty thousand people, three condemned men, Friedman, Zadgorsky and Koetf. were hanged. for their complicity in the recent Cathedral outrage in Sofia.