BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 June 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

ItJSTEALUN AMi? N.E. 1:4111.* AKttOC.s : J->-v CAIRO Till Al.. C AIRO, dune 2. All the nine persons accused in con iiexion will: the murder oi the late Siidai* were found guilty. Sentence was deferred. POLICE PREVENT RIOT. LONDON, June 2. It is reported that the Communists, Dr Stocker and Mile. Laval, eluded the Home Office lain by reaching the Scottish coast in a submarine. When the meeting broke up British Kascisti organised an uproarious farewell ai Glasgow, parading to the railway station with Union Jacks and singing "God Save the King.” \Yh ii the (< mi inti is i.sts raised “Tho Hi-; Mag'' or "Inlernatiomile” there was a chance of a riot until the police intervened. C ROWDS AT WEMBLEY. LONDON. June 1. Tin* Whit-Mrmlay crowds were so great at Wembley that many found themselves stranded at tie Exhibition. Owing to there being insufficient omnibuses and other vehicles to carry them ianue many had to walk it. The Australian aml New Zealand Pavilions haul a ronuirkhle share of tho holiday crowds, both being thronged all day w i'!i enquiring and admiring visitors. T ; ■ t- :1 attendance at the Exhibition fur Die day ai.iounteil to 250,000. THE WOOL PROBLEM. LONDON, May 31.

A critic referring to the carry over, this year of rid wool, says there are a million hales of Australian wool This quantity probably is unprecedented. lb- says tin- need of tho moment is not s i niu li lo increase supplies as to in: reuse consumption. Not till tho world's idle looms are engaged can there hope to he higher wool values. A BYE-ELECTION. LONDON. Juno 2. The nominations for Ayr Burghs bye election (following on Kir J. Baird’s appointment rs G-overnor-General of Australia) are Lieutenant T. 0. Mooro (Unionist). Mr P. J. Bolian (Labour), and Mr William Pringle (Liberal). BOLSHEVIK PLOT. CAIRO, June 2. The discovery of a Bolshevik revolutionary plot caused numerous arrests, including a Russian whom his confreres nicknamed " Moscow's Eye.” The police have ascertained that two of the late Sirdar's alleged murderers ■— frequently visited the Soviet’s representative in Berlin. Ml! DOOLEY CONVERTED. LONDON. June 2. It is announced that Mr Dooley, tho noted financier, has been converted to the Catholic Church. Interviewed, at Risley Hall. Mr Hooley says that the announcement is premature, as he does not know it he is good enough. MONASTIC LIKE CHOSEN. ROME, June 2. The Sicilian Prime and Princess Discoid whose combined fortunes amount to millions, have renounced their posilions a* social leaders. The Princo has entered a moimstry at Monza, and the Princess one at Modoua. They are aged forty years, and are without issue. They have given no explanation tor the step they have taken. RUM ROW REVIVAL. NEW YORK, June 3. Rum row is showing activity after a standstill as a result of live weeks’ blockade. Eight ships arc now in the smugglers’ zone off Boston. It is reported the New York hootlegging ring is constructing an a rilled T” fleel to combat coastguards. POPPY DAY. LONDON, .Tune 2. At the British legion Conference the executive .announced the branches must hold Poppy Day on the lltll. of November, exemption only to lie granted where adequate reason is established. The executive did not want different poppy days springing up. FAR EAST WAR DANGER. J LONDON, June 2. t ’I lie ‘'Times’’ Riga correspondent says reports received from Moscow, purporting t-i he based on messages from Hat- , bin. Peking, and Tokio. state Far ~ Eaxtcrn relations are so strained that an armed clash i- leu eel. The origin of Die trouble r, as rilled to the Japanese allegedly infringing the recent Sovietdap treaty, and Chang Tso Lin’s determined .support of the Chinese officials who refuse to carry out a Bolshevik decree dismissing the non-Soviet and non-Chinese employees of the Chinese Eastern Railway. It is inipossil.de to discover how much of this is true, but the Moscow official press, without denying them, reprints Chinese reports that Soviet forces tire concentrating on the frontiers, and Chang’s army staff has requisitioned four hundred railway carnage'. to convey troops to the Soviet frontier. .X.