BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

itJSTBALIAN AND N.I- CAULK ABBOCIATtON.

A FLOATING DOCK. LONDON, June 1. Six large tugs are towing to Malta a. former German floating dock of nine hundred feet, accommodating a fortv live thousand ton battleship. Tlie Adinirality previously intended to semi the dock to Singapore hut decided that a graving dock was more suitable, and was less likely to bo damaged hv aireralt. CIU'FLTY TO ANIMALS. LONDON. June 1. .Sir Francis Newton of Rhodesia speaking at Sliikker Club banquet said for every baby animal delivered in Europe to fill zoological societies contracts, at least cue hundred mothers during the I reeding season were mutilated and killed. It was tho worst blot on British .science and sport. Ford Lonsdale (chairman) promised to intervene. He stigmatised the American method it motoring at night time after animals who bewildered and crippled in the mad rush from blinding headlights before they were shut, was the mnst unfair erui'l pursuit conceivable. Till'. JAPANESE NAVY. OI'TPACING OTHER POWERS. LONDON. May 31. The •• Daily News” says that Japan’s new aircraft earner. Akagi. of 29,300 (mis and 2- knots, aeemiiniodates oO aeroplanes, and is armed with ton b-in. gnus, and sixteen J.i quicktirers. She is virtually a light battle cruiser, besides an aircraft carrier. The Akagi’s power surpasses that ot the British. French and America cruisers now building. In the Akagi, like the cruisers Funttaka. the Japanese have trumped till her rivals, increasing her lighting power and tonnage producing, the ships delivering heavier blows than other navies’ larger vessels. Britain’s largest aircraft carrier, the Fagle, is -1,200 tons smaller, four knots slower and has only nine 6-inch guns. COMM I N IS I S. PARIS. May 29. The Foreign Minister has decided not to renew the visas ol the passports of (ISO Russians who came to Paris after the recognition of the Soviet hv France, ostensibly as delegates to unions, hut who were discovered to ha acting as Communist propagandists. SOFIA. .May 30. The authorities, oil learning that three Agrarian Communist exiles had entered Bulgaria from Jugo-Slavia, and were hiding in the village of Vrabnit/.s. sent a lieutenant and a. number of police to arrest them. Tho exiles, when discovered, tired killing the lieutenant, and then escaped. LISBON, -May 30. The Red Leader Imre as fatally shot, when trying to escape, while enroute to a warship [or deportation. Seventeen others, including the notorious Belakun. have keen deported on a charge of sus]>eeteil complicity in an attempt to as-a-sinate the Chief of Police. CANONISATIONS AT ROME. ROM F, May 31. A gathering of over one hundred tliou-and people here yesterday witnessed the canonisation by the Pope of St. John Fillies, the founder of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary, and St. Jean liuptiste Yianney, the Parish Priest of Ars (France). The ceremony was most impressive. EARL HAIG'S SET I'LFMV.NT SCHEME. LONDON, May 31. Lord Haig has announced that the legion of ex-servicemen are working out a solicm:? for training ox-sorvice-u i'ii and their families with a view to organising settlement in one of the DoBIG GERMAN AEROPLANE RACE. BERLIN, May 31. Ninety aeroplanes of three classes namely of forty, eighty and one hundred and twenty horse-power, have started on a race of three thousand miles around Germany. The race is divided into live stages. The priz.es total twentv thousand sterling.

HAND AND MOCTH PROVISION. LONDON. May 30. "Fairplay” says editorially: "In order to create Imperial markets for British goods we must simultaneously provide hands and mouths to maintain them, which can only be done by engendering such demand in Britain for Empire products that the Dominions will need lucre workers from Britain to cope therewith.”