BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

L’”fF» Times’’ Service.] coal; .MINE vItISIS. BARIS, June 30. The French Miners’ Federation Congress has decided on a limited general strike, unless wage reduction notices are withdrawn bv July ■Jctli. The (’oilgross lias decided that pensions ought to be paid miners at the age of .30, after twenty-five ycai'M’ service, on a basis of fifty per cent of tin* average wages. The meeting broke up to strains of “The I iiternationai.” LONDON, June. 30. The Miners’ Federation comment oil the Mine Owners’ publication of the correspondence formally terminating the wages agreement on July 31st. as being prejudicial to a settlement by negotiation, and as taring a declaim, of war. ANCI.ICAN MINISTERS. DECREASE IN BRITAIN. LONDON, June 30. Recommendations of a far-reaching nature are contained in the report of a committee appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and York to consider the shortage of Anglican candidates for Holy Orders. Tin* report declares that intellectual difficulties an* one of the serious obstacles to men who otherwise wish to enter the Church. Tlie Committee, therefore, declares its belief that it would bring relief if it were derided that the Thirty-nine Articles are no longer a satisfactory statement for the purpose of assent. The opinion is expressed that a reinstatement of those principles, requiring also a believer's statement, should »<:* made from the Episcopate, as a whole, to the effect that they would not regard perplexity or uncertainty on some of tie* clauses of the Creed as luring a necessary barrier to ordination. The Committee urge that such difficulties (should bo considered i; viduall v.

The number of Anglican clergy ordained has decreased by 28*50 in the last decade, as compared with the tenyears from 190-5 to 1914. CHILD EXPLODES SHELL. BARIS, June 30. A party of children residing in the barracks of an Army Tank Corps at Croicv wore allowed to visit a workshop where, during their escorts’ absence. one child picked up a shell and tried to remove the fuse. The shell exploded, and three children were killed. Three others were precariously injured, and many were seriously injured.