BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

lUBTEALIAN AND N.Z. CABLB ASSOCIATION WORM) BLIGHT BAILS. BUENOS AYRES, May ’2l) Zanni’s attempted world Eight is considered here to have ended. It is understood the organising committee will shortly adopt a. resolution to this elfeet. A message from the aviator at Tokin stated repairs to tie machine could not he completed before July, when the North Pacific weather conditions necessitate a postponement until .September, at which date the charter of vessels engaged to patrol the route expires. INQUEST ON MISS MORGAN. LONDON. May .'III. Tie- verdict at the inquest on Miss Gwyneth Morgan was that she was found drowned. The only additional evidence wa- given l,v a companion and a housemaid. They said Mis- Morgan was in poor health, and -illlered troll! sieepies'lless. due to tie- 'alter effects of fever, hut took no driig;-. She never threatened suicide. MOST PROGRESSIVE CITIN LONDON. .May TO. Hundreds of thousands of j eople participated in a British Empire h: Hot in aid of charities. The competition asked that they give the twelve most progressive cities in the Empire, the winning result, according t.u the competitors own votes, being Lon.on, Liverpool, Birmingham. Manchester. Glasgow, Sydney, Montreal. Mcll-.oipne. Sheffield. Calcutta, Toronto and T-t nihay. EUCALYPTUS Pt HSOXTNG. LONDON. May 2b. At Chelsea, the Coroner, inquiring into the death of Mrs Tugweil. aget' do. said to have' been supposedly due to Eucalyptus poisoning, remarked that if this were proved, it would he of cons idem hie medico-legal import rr.ee. because there was no similar ease on record.

It was stated ill evidence that Ihe ■ death room reeked rf eucalyptus, and there were two empty bottle- beside the bed. Dr. Bronte, a pathologist. .staL d the woman's throat was yellow, which was a definite sign of the vulatis'.at'ou of eucalyptus. It was ihe first recorded ease of eucalyptus poisoning. The coroner returned an open verdict, saying that the symptoms were similar to those of laudanum p< miming. DAWES PLAN. PARIS, .May 80. A plenary meeting of the Reparations Commission has decided that Germany has faithfully executed the Dawes Plan. The Conference of Ambassadors had asked the Commissioners’ opinion on this point, as Article -19,2 of the Treaty of Versailles requires the execution of the reparations stipulations as well as the fulfilment of the military clauses of the Treaty before the Allied troops withdraw from Cologne. The conference will now he in a position to inform Germany that she has fulfilled one condition fur cvunition. hut that Cologne eaniiot he hamlled over until the disarmament obligations are fully carried out. SECURITF PROSPECTS. | LONDON, May 30. According to authorities statements in London and Paris yesterday, the clarification ot the security situation lias no progressed that a complete agreement may 1m- .shortly expected. Neither London nor Paris stated wherein ihe outstanding difference consisted. hut < liniments by the Paris and Berlin newspapers m-day indicate that Britain insists on a limitation of the security pact to Germany's western frontier, as G o■many has proposed. Yesterday's Loudon statement said the expectation of an agreement was based on ihe horn- and belief that France would adopt suggestions representing the unanimous view of the British Government. This is interpreted by the Berlin “Boersen Courier” "as something like an ultimatum.” The French writer "Pertinax” says: “Britain re; eats her sph-ndid isolation formula, which i- an encouragement of German revenge in East Europe.” He adds:—‘‘Belgium approved the British viewpoint.”