BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

.UITKALUN AND N.Z. GABLB ASSOCIATION. PRINCE of waffs. (A I’FTOWX, June 0. The I'riii'e of Wales today enters Zuiuland, where lie v. ill he welcomed by the greatest gathering in the history of the African peo) le. An an instance of the iiiiluenee exercised by his visit, it may he mentioned that a long-standing feud between two large Zulu tribes hats now been made up. and harmony restored. Both fact ion,-, are amicably marching to the seen.’ of the assembly.

DFPI XFDD'S AM RITIOX. ROMF. June 5.

Deputed.), is making plans to attempt a world flight. Simultaneously with his departure from Tokyo to cross the Pacific Ocean a stptailron of aeroplanes .leave Italy for Ameiiea to escort him homo. The squadron will use the fraiis.Atlaiitie passenger vessels as aids, descending to them in ease of need for spare parts or other help. WIIOI.FSAI.F STABBING. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) BFLU RAUF. June 7. A Selin message -Rat..- a polite patrol :Tp-sled fifty men in a small village, mostly agrarian-. They lied them together anil were marching them to the icntrnl prison when they attempted to escape, and all the prisoners were stabbed to death.

SOVIFT EXULTATION. (Received this day at 10.25 a.inj MOSCOW. June 7

Soviet leaders tire exultant over events in China. vvhielu together with Morocco and Balkan troubles, they declare prove the existence of a widespread clash end rate warfare, precluding derisive communist victories. Zinovieff who is speaking everywhere inciting to disorder abroad, declares the (list tn bam es ill China as elsew here, indicate the necessity for arranging a new struggle agnin-t capitalists.

CHURCH UNION. OTTAWA. June 7

Fill ecu hundred delegates at Torouti opened the first Crxifercnce markimj Hie union of Presbyterian. Methodist and Congregational Churches ot Canada into one great body known as the I’nited Churches of Canada. There are 8700 i ongregntions, w ith a total membership of 2f, millions. A number of Presbyterian a.iiti-l’nionists consisting chiefly of Old Country peo| le are slaving oiit-ide, calling themselves the cuntinufng Presbyterians,

RAX tiX DANCING. (Received this ila> at. 9. 15 am.) TDK l(), June 7.

A police order fm bids foreign darn ing in cafes, tea room. and elsewhere, except licensed halls and ] rivate homes, where dancing is permi-sible until ten at night only. The Jmperi.il Hotel where a majority of foreigners hold a weekly dance vainly protested. The Kmhitssios and Legations are not affected. The order is due to pressure by reactionaries objecting to anything

THE DEATH SKXTKXCK. FOXDOX. June 7

Reuter’s Cairo r orrespomleul: telegraphs that all those accused in connection with the murder of the Sirdar ■ Sir Fee Stack) have been i ondem.ned lo death, exeepL the chauffeur, who was sentenced to two years imprisonment. Some were removed .shrieking and struggling. 11 FAT \V.\YF IX LONDON. FOX DUX. .June 7. There were four deaths fmm heal in London as a climax to the loveliest Spring. UNIOX SFCR FTA I! Y’S (TIARUF. (Received this dav at K a.in. FOXDOX, June 7. Cook, Secretary to the Miners’ Federation, in a remarkable cryptic speech at ( hopwell. Durham, -aid: " Fefore Cod and man. I am doing my duty ; 1 have never received one penny from anyone except the I fade unions which I. represent, hut I know there are men who have.”

FOB Ki ON SECT, FT AI! V. LONDON, .lime 7. The lion. Austen C I'.amberiain (Foreign Secretary) lias left London for Geneva. FRENCH GOV Id it NAI KNT TOTTKi! INC. PARIS, June 7. It is believed the I’ainleve Governii'.net. is tottering and that M. liriand is likely to succeed. GEN KVA LABOUR CONFERENCE. (Received th is day at 8.-V' am.) GENEVA, 7. The 'lnternational Conference rejected the project put forward by the Convention for a weekly .stoppage in tinglass industry for recreation purposes by one vote only, at which the workers’ group became incensed.

The Convention. lor the proposed workers’ lompcnsafion. passed its first reading. Its constitution provides that if a two-thirds majority is secured for the first reading it is within the competence e.f the conference to decide there and then to take a final vote. 'I lie workers’ group are rankling under thi r earlier defeat and decided to piess for the second and final reading. Much argument followed and it was eventually decided to take a final vote on Holiday.

It is clear that many Government’s and employers’ representatives voted for the first reading believing the final adoption would not 1)0 voted on till next year, but they are now organising their forces to secure its final rejection on M.nmh.tv.

A it it! ESTATE. LONDON. June 7

A factor In Lord Derby's proposal to sell Bootle, winch came into possession of tlie family during the eighteenth century, is that many leases are tor gg;l years. It is a question whether the corporation is wise- to invest in ground rent s.-which cannot increase in value for a thousand years. Lord Derby a month ago sold practically all his properly in south-west Lancashire covering live thousand acres in Bury. .Manchester and Salford to S. IT. Green. It is rumoured tlie sale yielded a million. Bury estates liave I ecu in possession of tlie family sime tlie battle of Bosy.'orth in LlSd, when Stanley forsook Richard and sided with Henry VII and was rewarded with the lands of Lancashire families who sided with Richard. PRESS CONFERENTE. EON DON, June 7.

A revised list of representatives from the United Kingdom who will attend ithe F.mpiie Press Union guul Dress Conference in Australia includes \ isconntess Paniham (representating Society of AYomen .Journalists) ( apt ain J'lder (Yorkshire, Post) ; .1. R. Eindlay (Scotsman* ; N. IL Graham <Wolverhampton Express') ; A. E. Herbert i Punch) ;R. H. Shaw (Times); Turner iSecretary of Union), and also a representative at present not nominated of the “ Daily Mail” and associated newspapers.

PERFECT FORGED NOTES. (Received this day at 10 a.m.) LONDON. June 8. Scotland Yard regards the Earl’s Court discoveries as ihe most important of recent years. There were all

the latest devii.es. whereof some were unfamiliar to the police, including a . huge camera lour feet square snsi pended from the ceiling, four etching machines, two presses, a huge quantity of sensitised paper and two hundred packets of photographic plates. The detectives detained a man who posed as a press photographer. I j>* claimed the apparratus was used professionally. The forged notes are perfect and detection has been extremely difficult. They have been circulating in all purls of tile country for twelve months. soviet corin' sentences. Otoceived this day at. 10 a.m.) MOSCOW. June 8. The military tribunal at Kiel!' lias ('(included the trial of members of an Anti-Soviet organisation, ‘'Russia for Russians.'' which is headed by an exTsarist. General Belavin, who is accused of military espionage on behalf of Poland and Belavin and Ivanolf. who were officials on the staff of the Kranian Red Army and a woman intermediary. Nina K rozeeeko-V-ka . were sentenced lo death. Twelve others v.ere sentenced to variou- terms of imprisonment and one wa.~ acquitted. Belavin allegedly described himself as an ideological enemy of the Soviet. He admitted the charge. MURDER CASK RECALLED. CHICAGO. June 8. A message from Chicago slates that Richard Loch, one of the principals in the Frank’s murder, and who was sentenced to life imprisonment has now been officially declared insane by Warden Whitman ol Joliet Penitentiary. Illinois, where Loch and I.colloid are eonlincd. The latest development fulfils t 1 ■ prediction of Clarence Harrow, Loch's counsel, who declared a! the time ot ■ sentence that l.ucb would he insane , within a few months il imprisoned.

The ollieial statement of insanity was made following the reports ol two physicians and to alienists who observed the prisoner since he first Became- delirious a week ago. tallowing an attack of measles. The alienists claim Look's mental condition is due to the abrupt (hange in 1 is mode of life.

Koch is now strapped to a cot mumbling incoherently. calling lor his mother and sweetheart, cursing everyone aproaching.

[Taman royal jubilee. ROM F. June 7

The Chinnier was crowded on the occasion ol a special sitting to celebrate ihe twenty-lift h anniversary of the King’s accession. Proposals in iavour of non Ferri n.g 1 a medal for military valour by Ills Majesty was ado]’,ted. The pro cedings were enthusiastic. The diplomatic cores visited the King and conveyed congratulations. Three Deputies rcpro-enling respect!ally the Peoples Party. Democrats and Liberals iLmstitut.iug Use (W.-st it m.iounl Opnositioii. al-o oroeeeded to the (,luirina! and oresented r.n address ol homage. The city is hellagged and illuminated. Delegates are pouring in from all | ails of Italy for the purpose of partiei ] at ing in the t celebration. A LABOUR SUGGESTION. LONDON. Ji. . 5 The Labour Executive will ask the annual conference on 291 h lUeil'h; r In pass a resolution urging a survey of the Empire’s nnoiral resources bathe purpose rf subordinating privat" Use of Bind lo whewe- for si ientl'ie I'edisl r'hution of population and tho fullest develoimieiii of oversea lerril.ories as sum r- of food- and raw materials ; soi ondly Government a I pile .■base ol Dominion's food supplies lor the purpo :• of siahiiisat ion of price- ; Ihirdly. Govt ruaiemal provision of me' io-ting lacilicie. in Britain lor overseas producers. SENTENCE COMMUTED. SOFIA. June 8. The death senteu e on Madam liieol lalia in ('Ouneetien with th l bond) eutrage in the Cathedral has In. ell commuted lo light i,eel os in li for life. BRITISH DELEGATION. GENEVA, September 7. A listen Chamberlain and Party arrived to attend the Council of the League of Nations opening on June > They had lunch in the afternoon with M. Briand with wh: ill they are ox]o'cted to have an important conference.

AMERICAN SUGGESTION. GENEVA, June 7

Burioii, tile American delegate, in- | rim* I tlie Arms Conference that .Mr Coolidgc hail authorised him to state that unless tin* Confireuio immediate-

ly drew up a protocol open to Ice signatures of all nations, America would send a world-wide invitation to :i Washington Coutercnc.*. with a *. iew to the abolition of chemical and bacleriologiial warfare. The Commission accepted Burioii’' suggestion and appointed a sub-committee to deal with the protocol. SOLICLTOR-GENEIIA E. WASHINGTON. June 7. Mr William Hutchell of St Paul, has been appointed Solicitor-General 1 t United States, succeeding .'lr Beck NORWEGIAN WARNING. LONDON, June 7. The "Time'” Oslo corresoomlent says that the Norwegian Press takes strong exception to the announcement that a number of German naval units will visit the Norwegian coast during the summer. The restoration ot normal relations with Germany is naturally desired. Imt " Sjnfartst i lende ” warms tin* German Government that no improvement can In* expected by an over eariv resumption oi I lie annual, obtrusive natal visits. cha racterising the Kaiser period. Tin* paper adds there are sldl dwelling around tlie Norwegian Coast thousand of families who 10-t dear ones through the German mi! marine warfare, which rightly or wrongly, they i (insider synonymous wiili murder. Their sorrow which, now is almost, healed, might be renewed, and Germany should lx* bluntly told 'li* will gain nothing hy sending warships to Norwegian waters. On tlie contrary it is emphasised that the longer they stay away the so net relation' will become normal.