BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

AUSTI’.AMAS AND N.Z. O fll.K ASSOCIATION press; delegates. OTTAWA, July IS. The main notiv of the British delegates to the Empire Press Congress arrived in Quebec yesterday, headed by Lord Burnham, others being Sir Elinslev Carr, Sir Frank Newnes, and Sir William Davies, with a number of Canadian newspaper men. The patty will sail from Vancouver later in the month.

Alter a brief stay in .Montreal, the press congress delegates entrained for Winnipeg. Brief stops will be made at Biinlf. Lake Louise, Vancouver and Victoria. Viscount Biirnliaiu, interviewed, said that England bad no intention of being hasty towards Eranee. The United Stales was actually pressing more than Britain. “We only ask France to be as liberal in her treatment of Britain as she is with the United Stales,” he said.

Lord Burnham was of opinion that the questions of coal and electric pwcr had always been a weak link in the chain of British industry. The problem would be solved, if Britain had natural resources of hydraulic power as large as Canada.

PUBLICATION RESTRICTION. LONDON. July 1(1. The House of Lords has road the second times a Bill restricting the publication of reports of judicial proceedings to certain denned statements of fact, and penalising law-breakers by a term not exceeding three mouths imprison men t or a fine of C'5(K). Lord Darling in moving the second reading, explained that the Bill aimed at preventing the publication ol mephitic details which sickened decentminded people. Lord C'avc said that he was tillable lo guarantee facilities for the passage of the bill but personally ho sympathised with its object. A NEW ANAFSTHI^TC. LONDON. July 17. The disevery of a new local anaesthetic', possessing all tlie virtues of cocaine'. and none of its perils, was announced at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association at Bath, at which the Dominions. India, Ceylon and Hong Kong are represented, ft was discovered by Dr Copeland, of Cambridge, who was awarded a Memorial Scholarship of a value of £2OO BELGIUM AND SOVIET. BRUSSELS July 18.

M, Yuudervckle. in the Chamber, said that. Belgium, while anxious to recognise the Soviet, was unable, to do so, until she received guarantees regarding the independence of Georgia and the recognition of the claims of the Belgians who were deprived of their pmporLv in Russia.

A FRENCH TRAGEDY. PARIS, July IS. In consequence of an anonymous letter which they received, the police visited the chateau of Charles Soler. a literateur and explorer, at Chateney. co-France, Poiniohe. The police found Madame Soler. lying in the top-most room of the chateau, the door of which was chained and pad-locked. She was shockingly emaciated, and she told the police a pitiful story. She stated that she had boon confined for two years in the room by her husband, who demanded that she should make a will in his favour. Eventually she yielded, under threats.

Madame Soler now charges her husband with attempting In kill her by slow starvation. The woman certainly appeared to be a. living skeleton. She saw no one. hut her husband’s secretary. Mademoiselle Do La Plunge, who unlocked the d- u to the police, as if is alleged, umhjr test.Madame Soler was taken to a ! pit.nl. and her husband and Mademoiselle do La I’lnnge were charged veil., seqiiostrintion and violence. RADIO RECIPROCITY. NEW YORK. July 17. The Radio Corporation of America announces that it has arranged with the British Broadcasting Company for an exchange of programmes of international interest during the coming winter several times weekly, and perhaps nightly. They are to he one hundredfold more powerful than the present short wave lengths. Similar arrangements will he made with Germany.

FATAL HOUSE collapse. (PEKIN, July 18

Fifteen are dead and nineteen sent to hospital from the debris, of h riday s collapse. All were Chinese excepting two Indian watchmen. The rescue is continuing.

HOPE ABANDONED. l-KKIN. July IS

Hopes of further rescues from the collapse have been abandoned. Fortythree are dead and eighteen injured have been recovered.

SEOUL FLOODS. TOKIO. July 10. Communications with Seoul are apparently completely severed. It is impossible at present to ascertain the flood damage there. Such reports as have come concur in stating the Hoods

are unprecedented, especially in the suburb of Ryazan where the river rose thirty-six feet, breaking the embankment. The place is without light, water and gas. Troops are assisting in rescue work which is rendered difficult. owing to ‘the terriiie rush of water.

PRISONERS RE' EASED. BELGRADE. July IP

Raditcli and live other leaders of the l’easant Parly were released at the special wish of the King, alter eight months’ imprisonment. tor treason. Great crowds accorded them a reception.