BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia A X.Z. Cable Association.] TSAI? IST I? USSIANS. LONDON, .Inly ‘ll. Tile “ .Morning f’ost’s” Paris correspondent reports that private telegrams announce that the Soviet Government executed in Petrograd on July '2nd, Prince Nicholas Malatzin. aped 7(5, who was the last of the Tsarist Premiers, and also seventeen others. All were shot at night. absolutely without trial. Sixty others were deported to the extreme north of Hussia or imprisoned. According to " l.c Matin " of I’aris, these all were formerly students at the Imperial l.yeee Alexander, and all were living in abject poverty. The Soviet, it says, misrepresented a small relief land that was arised in Paris in their behalf as being a huge fund lor the overthrow of the Soviet regime. PI?.INCH OK WALKS. CAPETOWN, duly 2d. The Prince of Wales is visiting Kimberley. lie inspected a wonderful dinplay of uncut diamonds belonging to the Delieers Company's Offices, and accepted a 121 carat stone as a souvenir. Subsequently he traversed the underground working of the Wesselton mine. SETT I,Ml) EUROPEAN CONDITION'S. [ Ken ter Telegrams.] (Received this day at Sb.'JO a.in.) LONDON, duly 2(1. British interest in the settled Continental situation was emphasised by Lhe 'lion. Austen Chamberlain (Foreign Secretary) in a speech at Birmingham. Me was hopeful <d a settlement of the question which would remove the sense of fear of the renewed peril and afford sensible relief throughout the world, “it was not to be supposed,” said Mr Chamberlain, ‘‘that we had no interest in the relations between our neighbours in their security or in the peace of Europe. Some people objected to our giving any form of guarantee covering the existing Kranco, Belgian and Merman boundaries, but the sanctity of those frontiers was the groundwork of out protection. We had it in our power, by associating ourselves as guarantors of that peaceful settlement, to give measures of confidence to France. Belgium and Mermnuy, which they would never Jim! in any instrument to which we were not parties/-

PREMIER. SPEAKS TO UNIONISTS (Received this day at !).•'!() a.in.) LONDON, duly 27. Mr Stanley Baldwin, addressing fifty thousand Lancashire and Cheshire Unionists at Knowsley Park, said the most satisfactory feature of the foreign outlook was the. evident desire of Germany to entinlie negotiations '• ill l both Britain and France. The Premier wished Menusny would enter the League of Nations as soon as possible, hectm.se then the existing problems, notably disarmament, would assume a new and hotter aspect. “The cl tied Fnotur checking t lid growth of Britain’s overseas trade, said Mr Baldwin, “is the great increase in productive and distributive costs. Wo were threatened with n conflict between the coal owners and the miners, both with a very strong ease, hut all the time the financial position id' the industry was becoming worse. These conflicts could he lilted on to a new plane h.v both maMer/ and men.’’ The Premier hoped I hat the negotiations which were about to he resumed 1 would result in the carrying of luirrassed industry over a year or two. til? it was easier to negotiate permanent settlements. A DEAN NEARLY DECKED. LONDON, duly 2b. While Mr Ramsay .MacDonald was' addressing the Durham miners in thu Mai? and condemning MovoiSnment’a belated action in the coal crisis, and declaring the coal trade must bo organised nationally and thus secure unication of production, wages and conditions, the Rev. Welldun. Dean ot Durham, was seen approaching to undress a temperance meeting at the conclusion of the Mall speeches. The crowd jostled and rushed the Dean to the river’s edge, intending to (luck him, but the police commandeered a passing motor boat and conveyed him to safety, minus his silk hat and umbrella. The doinoiustrhtiuiis were the outcome of Dean Welldoii’s references in newspaper articles to the coal position. JAP AIRPLANE FLIGHT. TDK 10, July 2b. A great crowd watched the departure of the two aeroplanes named v piat.sukase and the Koehitikaje, which are financed by the newspaper Asulii on a llight to London, via Moscow. TOKYO. July ‘27. Asulii aeroplane has returned to Osaka owing to an engine delect.

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LONDON, July 20

'flic exiled King and Queen of Greece are staying incognito at a middle class hotel in Jjondion. They are accompanied by lour servants and are remaining in England for two months visiting and friends. They would like to stay permanently, but living is costly and their funds are low. At the end of their visit they will it,’) to ltoumania to join the Queen s parents. WIRELESS MESSAGE. (Received this day at 10.25 it.m.i LONDON. July 20. Signals by Melbourne wireless stationVv3 Ed. were picked up with exceptional strength on the last two mornings by Station (12 Kf.. London. Ounedili Station X./.-l Ag. was heard at slightly less strength. 02 Kf. desires A 3 Bd to listen in during the current week at six in the morning, English summer time, on a wave length of forty-three metres, with a view to determining the best length on which important telephony experiments

Should shortly lie carried out. OL Kf was the first station to nick up .Macmillan’s Arctic expedition, and was the medium of transmitting messages from ‘ members of the expedition to America. PRINCE OF WARES. CAPETOWN, duly 25. The Prince of Wales held the last ollicial reception of the tour at Leanfort, West. After opening a tuberculosis sanatorium at Nelspoort. he will arrive at Capetown on Sunday, where he will take a. complete rest, after his arduous journey. He is embarking on the Repulse oil Wednesday for the Argentine, and is visiting St. Helena cn route. R VCI.NO MOTORIST KILLED. PARIS, July 26. The Italian motorist Askari died of injuries following on the overturning of his car on the twentieth lap of the Automobile Grand Prix, consisting of oi fr htv circuits of the Autodrome. The distance was about 621 miles. Seagrave was the only British competitor hut be abandoned the race at the thirty-fourth circuit.