BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

IWrutAMAN AMI' N.Z. CAHI.E AHHOCIATION STtJD'ENT KILLS IMtOKKSSSOK. NEW YORK, Juno !l. During examination tiino in Louisiana. University, a student broke into Professor Turner’s mom in an attempt to steal the examination f>a 1 1crs. The Professor returned cnexpcetedly and caught the student red handed. The student thereuiion attacked him with an axe and inflicted fatal injuries. No arrest has so far been made. AIM)EL KRIM’S INTENTIONS. (Received tins day at It).-5 a.in.l PARIS. June 8. The Kill pressure is increasing at various points on the trout, neees'-ita-ting the greatest vigilance on the part of the I‘Teneh command, who are eonvinrod the stakes in the struggle ;ilv not only a protectorate over .Morocco, hut the whole of the North-Afriean Colonies. Abdel Krim has not concealed his intention of raising the Mohammedans throughout the whole ol Alrica. it the present offensive succeeds. THE SAMOS AFFAIR. ATHENS. June 8. The declaration of martial law at Samos and the landing of naval forces and troops were well received hv the inhabitants, apparently only a small proportion whereof have joined the insurgents. Samos is hloikaded. In view of the prevention of the escape of the insurgent leaders the situation does not seem disquieting. The Creek Legation reports the leaders of the revolt at Samos have been captured. ANGLO-GERMAN RELATIONS. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) I.’F.RLI X, June 8. The annual meeting of the Cermaii Colonial Society at .Munich passed a resolution strongly protesting against the theft of Germany’s colonies, demanding the Government ask for their return and requesting the Reichstag not to ratify the Anglo-German Commercial Treaty unless the anti-German relations still enforced in the British colonies, are cancelled. GERMAN AIR FLIGHT.

BERLIN, June 8. Twenty-six machines having completed the fourth lap of the round Germany (light-, M 8 including four babies, started on the sixth and last circuit, this being a six hundred miles (light. 8o far none of the machines under -It) horse-power completed the four circuits; eight under eighty horse-power stteeeeded while fifteen were successful in the maximum of 120 horse-power class. GORDON BKXXF.T RACK. BRUSSELS. June 8. ► The four balloons down in the Gordon Bennett race include the British Pal non Elsie, which had to land at Etaples, hoi tig subsequently destroyed. Two Spanish and one French also descended in France.