BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. C/DI.B ASSOCIATIONTINY A PRO PE AN ES RACE. (Received this day at 9.0 a.m.) LONDON. August 2. Twenty-live tiny aeroplanes competed at the Royal Aero Club’s meeting at I.ympuo in the Light Aeroplanes Handicap over four circuits of a twentycue mile course. In the hcavv rain twelve were compelled to descend Flight-Lieutenant Chick was first, Wing-Commander Douglas second, and Captain Hinckler, third. NANKING SITUATION. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) HONG KoXG, July 2. A British naval wireless message from Nanking reports that when the International Export Coy. reduced its Chinese staff, the dismissed men assumed a threatening altitude. British naval men were landed.

A mob attached the Chinese police, whose officer ordered them to fire. Three or four were wounded. Afterwards a Britisher who was going home wa.s attacked in the street and injured. He was taken to the hospital. All is quiet now and the police have the situation well in hand. DEBT SETTLEMENT’. FRANCE AND BRITAIN STILL HAGGLING. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON. August 2. The “Sunday Times” says there is a considerable gulf between the niter of tlie French financial experts who visited Loudon last week and the British Treasury requirements in regard to the debt settlement. The former proposed the annual payment he computed between six and seven millions sterling, but the Treasury refuses to countenance anything not approximating twenty millions per year, which, it holds. P’rauce is well able to pay. The French debt to Britain on 31st. Alareh last was £020.000,0n<).

An amazing attack is published in what is understood to he M. Caillaux’s mouthpiece, the “Ere Nouvelle” on Sir Otto Nieineyer, the principal Treasury expert. NEW ZEAI.ANDEBS ENTERTAFXED LONDON. August 2. Kir James and l.ady Allen entertained one hundred New Zealanders at the Royal Colonial Institute. A NOVELISTS’ ESTATE. LONDON. August 2. Kir 11. Rider Haggard left £01.723. mainly to liis wife and daughters. He requested that his wife never sell the copyrights of his novels. He also left an autobiography which must not he destroyed. WIRE!-ESS. LONDON. August 2. Air Partridge, a wireless experimenter at Wimbledon got “2 A.C., New Zealand.” who intimated that “1 E.G., Chile”, was calling Mr Partridge. wlm picked up, receiving a message for the Chilian’s former teacher. Professor Alidgley. who is residing at Bradford. MIGRANTS BEING WARNED. LONDON. August 2. Two Canadian delegates at the Empire Labour Conference arc publicly warning emigrants against going to Canada, pointing out that Industrial depression is acute there and that tens of thousands are unemployed am’ hundreds of factories have been closed, while hundreds of farms in Western Canada have been abandoned, other farmers who were struggling being unable to pay their employees more than their hoard and lodging. NEW JAPANESE CABINET. TO lx 10. August I. Baron Kalo has been summoned and completed a Cabinet, assigning the portfolios id justice, commerce, ami agriculture to the Kenscikai members, Egi, ilnynmi, and Kataoka respectively. The other ministers as before are re-appointed. The new Cabinet Hilly accords with the expectations ot the press and others who are particularly scornful of the political manoeuvring of the Seivukni Party, who, by breaking up the coalition and immediately making overtures to the Siyuhonton Party, gave evidence that their real intentions were ol bidding tor power. Baron fvato has now an opportunity to form a Ministry purely irom the. Kenscikai. returning the iormer .Ministers therefrom. The Konsnikai are the largest party in the Power House, but they do not command an absolute majority. ANGLO-FRENCH DEBTS. PARIS. July 31. Cabinet says M. C’aillaux in a statement in regard to the Anglo-! 1 leneh debt negotiations in London, said although there is a noticeable difloronce between the British and French viewpoints, the beginning of an understanding is already achieved. FRENCH LEAVE ESSEN. BERLIN. July :ilThe last French troops have departed from Essen. THE SHANGHAI AFFAIR. PEKING. Aug. 2. The Foreign Ofliee has requested the interested powers to fix a date for the negotiations over the Shanghai incident. ft indicates that any Ilea t ions arising from the delay in reaching a settlement will now be chargenbTe to the interested powers.