BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

(AUSTRALIAN! AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION BRITAIN’S DEFENCE SERVICES. LONDON, July 28. The “ Evening Standard ” reports that a movement has arisen in the House of Commons aiming at the setting up of a new organisation to secure hotter co-ordination and more harmonious relations between the three defence services. It is contended that qustions of strategy, invention. research, and finance could he better dealt with by somebody in close touch with the Prime Minister than l»v the present water-tight compartments working independently. Ihe idea is to establish a permanent Sub-Committee of the Imperial Defence. Ibis subcommittee would consist of representatives of the three services and of the Dominion, the Treasury and the foreign Office.

MODERN* WU.UAN. A CARDINAL'S .STRICTURES. (Received this clay at 9.30 a.in.) LONDON, July 29. The “Evening News’’ interviewed Cardinal Gasquet, librarian at the Vatican, who is visiting England. Ho said Queen Mary is a model example .to the women of England. She dresses !>ea utifully, looks more beautifully feminine than any of these modern women. “I can not understand,’’ said the Cardinal, “Why the Queen tolerates at a function like the Royal Garden Party, women dressed, or rather undressed, in the scantiest clothes. I fail to see what further clothing women can discard. If they went without clothes it would he less repugnant to rpooplo of good taste. There is more suggestion about flimsy clothing worn ttJiao about complete nudity. RANSOM. DEMANDED. PEKIN. July 29. A letter has lieeit received from the bandits who captured Howard, demanding a ransom in money and bullion, hut not specifying the amount. BRITISH IMMIGRATION’. LONDON’, July *2B. The “Morning Host” and “Daily Telegraph” comment on the statement made in the House ol Commons on .Monday that 50.090 selected persons are waiting to emigrate. Roth papers emphasise the importance ol providing markets for settlers’ products. The “Morning Post” says: “The Dominions do not yet thoroughly understand how essentially it is in their interest to increase their populations with British stock.”

The “Daily Telegraph” remarks:— “There has not been the same readiness to receive as to send migrants.” It suggests, among the reasons (1) that the Dominions themselves have undergone severe economic stress; (2) a restrictive policy on the part ot the trade unions; and, (3) that the system ol nominating persons must operate ns a check. SPECULATION IN COTTON. LONDON. July 28. A conference of the United lextile Factory Workers, embracing tlie majority of the cotton operatives, passed a. resolution ordering an enquiry into the toll taken of the cotton trade by the speculators, middlemen and agents. The mover of the motion declared that the cotton crop is sold four or five times lteforc the seed is sown. I hen after the harvest, {he crop is bought and sold many times, by people who have never seen it. The same tiling happened, he said with the yarn and cloth stages, with the result that cloth which would he sold at a shilling pelyard was retailed at is 8d to IDs a yard. WHEAT SALES. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.l LONDON July 29. Wheat cargoes. Mandolins, Rivei Plates were held lor sixpence to a shilling advance. Parcels are in hot ter request. Manitoba,s ninepeiice tc a. shilling up. Safes, ex-Clnn MacN’ab 50s, ex City of Bristol 56s (id; ex Kaikoura (both in London and Liverpool) 50s 3d; Liverpool futures July 11 s 9,Jd, October 10s 9jd; December 10s ojd. exam, success. LONDON, July 29. At the Oxford examinations, the New Zealander, George Aitken, of Westport, secured second class in modern Greek.

WOOL SALES. ANTWERP, July 29

At the wool sales 51)89 bales were offered and 14.-19 sold, with good competition. London prices were firmly maintained. A VICAR’S PR KOI CAM K.\T. (Received this day at 11.25 a.in.) LONDON, July 29. Tlie Rev. Aaron Suffrin, the Anglican Vicar of Waterlooville, near Portsmouth, is the central figure in a strange nullity suit. Suflriu is a Roumanian Jew and was converted to Christianity in 1905 and his Knglish wife, whom he married in 190(5, alleges that Suffrin has a wile still living in Roumania, whom lie married in 18i2, when eighteen. The legitimacy of the three children of the Knglish marriage is at stake. Suffrin gave evidence that his five brothers and hrothers-in-law forced him into the first marriage to prevent him joining the Greek Church, hut he was divorced in 197*!. under the Jewish law. though this is without effect in Roumania. Suffrin admitted describing himself as a widower at the time of his remarriage as he regarded a divorced man and a widower us synonymous terms. His wife was only told the facts in 1912; The hearing was adjourned to enable the production of evidence regarding the Roumanian law. TKA SALKS. CALCUTTA, July 29. At the tea sales there was fair competition for good sorts and prices were steady, but there was a poor demand for lower grades, which dropped halt to one anna. BROADCAST FUN KRAI. SERVICE. WASHINGTON, July 29. Mr Bryan’s funeral services here on Friday will be broadcasted throughout the Eastern States by the Radio Corporation of New York and the Ameiican Telephone and Telegraph Coy. THE EVOLUTION THEORY. VANCOUVER. July 29. A message from Atlanta announces that overwhelming defeat met the amendment offered in the House of Representatives providing that an teacher who taught the theory of the origin of man in contradiction to the Bible’s account could not receive a salary from the Common School Appropriation. JAPAN NOT A DANGER. VANCOUVER, -Tilly 29,.

A Williamstown report states Professor Charles Tv. Leith, ot the University of Wisconsin, at the Institute of Polities round-table conference on mineral resources, as a factor in World affairs, said: “Because of Japan’s lack of one of the sinews of war, steel, it seems impossible she could keep a „way open to any of the three great steel centres, especially if she were at war with any of the countries, the United States, England and France, which control them.”

Professor Leith added: “The dearth of mineral supplies in the Far East seems to contradict decisively the theories that that part of the world is going to be the centre of the civilisation of the future ; also ft removes Japan ns a war threat, for a nation cannot have war power without great industrial power. Japan is woefully weak in steel, and she knows it.”