BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION LEGATION SERVANTS STRIKE. PEKIN, August 7. Sonic servants belonging to the Britisli legation staff and Legation guard walked out presumably owing to the student unions in t imidatioii. It is understod AA'aichiaopu is taking shape with a view to arranging a settlement. NO HOLIDAYS FOR CABINET. LONDON, AUG. 8. While Commoners are scattered all over the country on their holidays Cabinet .Ministers remain in Lonodn owing to the visit of -M. Briand which is expected to have a most important hearing on the Security Pact and debt negotiations. ANOTHER BRITISH ELECTION. LONDON, AUG. 8. “Reynolds’ News” says that .Mr Baldwin recently made the remark ti.at he was contemplating another election shortly. His idea is to obtain a mandate for a comprehensive programme of Imperial Preference as the only remedy for the existing industrial evils. WHAT IS WANTED. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON. AG. 8. Mr Garvin, writing in the “Observe r,” and who has lived many years in the mining centre of Neweastle-on-Tyne, commenting on the coal agreement, says the real problem ol the British coal mines is crudely plain. About fifteen hundred companies, or individuals, own the sole three thousand pits through successive generations. These have licen opened and worked without sufficient' regard in any district to a. common policy as respects the fullest and cheapest yield, pumping and draining co-operation, the purchase of equipment and the management of sales. What is wanted is more amalgamation. THE MOSUL REPORT. • LONDON. August 7. A report by the Neutral Commission appointed by the League of Nations to enquire as to the -Mosul frontier (cabled on July 29) recommends the union of the whole territory of the League of Nations’ control for 25 years. If the League’s control is not maintained, (says the report) it would be advantageous for the territory to remain under the sovereignty of Tur-

key, whose internal and external conditions of stability are incomparably more stable than Iraq’s. Tn the event of the League Council deciding to split Up the territory, the .commission recommends a frontier approximately following the line of the Losses Znb, which leaves Mosul itself within Turkish territory.

The final decision rests with the League. LONDON, August 8. 'l'be “Daily Telegraph’s" politieal correspondent states The Mosul report is characterised !>v an anti-Bri-tish Idas. 'Plie suggestion that Britain should remain in Iraq for a score of years, or return the large rich ]x*.rtion of it to Turkov, is bound to embarrass the British and Iraq Governments, for the benclit of Turkey, or possibly of some foreign oil interests. AN INIQUITOUS SUGGESTION. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, AUG. 8. The “Observer,” commenting on the Mosul report, says it was obviously meant to place Britain' in a dilemma. There lias been no more cynical paradox in the name of the League of Nations since the inqiiitous decision of Upper Silesia, than the report which makes directly for renewed Arab subjection to to the Turks. N.Z. AND INDIANS. DELHI, August 7. The Bombay uidcipal Corporation has received a letter from the Government of New Zealand, urging ITio exemption of New Zealand from the operation of the Bombay Corporation’s resolution of March. 192!}, boycotting the Dominion’s banks and insurance companies, as a protest against the treatment of the Indians overseas.

The letter adds: “The Indians in New Zealand do not labour under difficulties.”

BROADCASTING CONTROL. LONDON, Aug. 7

The House of Commons has appointed Karl Crawford (Chairman’), Mr Rudynrd Kipling. Dame Muriel Talbot, and Lords Rayleigh and Blnnesburgh. among tlie members of a eonimittee to in.vesdigate the management, control, and finance of broadcasting, after the expiration of the company monopoly in "December, 1920. BRITISH ECONOMY COMMITTEE. LONDON. Aug. 8. Air Churchill announced in the House of Commons that the proposed Economy Committee, of three members (mentioned by Mr Baldwin on July 23) would consist of Lords Colwayue, Chalmers and Bradbury. The lirslnnmed would be chairman. SENTENCED TO DEATH. SOFIA. Aug. 8. Thirty-three persons charged in .connection* with the Communist conspiracy in Bulgaria, were sentenced to death at Varna. DROWNED BY HUGE WAVE, (Received this day' at 8 a.m.) PARIS, AEG, 8. A party of thrity-five school children were bathing near Uouhai.se when a huge wave broke over the beach rc- " suiting in fifteen being drow'nod. 'flic others were rescued.

SHOCKING SEASIDE TRAGEDY PARIS, Aug. 9.

A bathing disaster of a most shocking character, occurred at the seaside. Thirty-five small children whose parents worked at Umibaix factories, were enjoying a treat in charge of Father Do in Porte. The Father warned the children tluiL the tide was rising, and some tried to take a short-cut to the sand dunes, but were. caught by the incoming tide and fell into a deep liollow among the shifting sands. Father Dc la Porto and two men plunged into the sea and rescued several in an unconscious stiite. Other onlookers made fruitless attempts at rescue. Later, eight children recovered consciousness, but at least eighteen were drowned. The sand in the locality is most deceptive. It often appears fiat when the total rise and fall measures several feet. It alters wit'll every tide when the sea is rough. CHURCHILL’S ECONOMY DEMAND. LONDON, August 7. Air W. Churchill (Chancellor of the Exchequer) in the House of Commons, reviewing the national expenditure, said that the time had come to call a clecisivo halt. The day might come, if the nation did not prosper, when the whole scale of the cost of 1 ivinj must l>e reduced. COAL OWNERS’ STATEMENT. LONDON. August 7. On behalf of the Alining Owners’ Association, Air Philip Gee has issued a statement warning the public that a coal crisis will recur in exactly the same form next May. unless the situations is fixed resolutely in the interval. He declare that a small body ol extremists are controlling the Aliners’ Federation, who never intended to arrive at a. settlement of the dispute. “They do not yvant industrial peace,’’ h© says, “but they want to overthrowprivate enterprise and the existing structure of society. A lasting settlement is impossible until the constitutional issue is faced namely: Are we to he governed by Parliament or by a Soviet acting under the name of the Britih Labour Movement?”

.MASONIC LUNCHEON. [Reuter Telegrams.] (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, August 10. Seven thousand Freemasons attended a. luncheon at Olympia in connection with the .Masonic million War Memorial Fund festival. The Duke of Connaught presided, and the Duke of York and Prince Arthur of Connaught were also present. The Duke of Connaught announced that subscriptions totalled £826,600 including £II7.IKK' from Loudon Lodges alone. GERMAN PROFESSOR’S CLAIMS. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) LONDON. Aug. 9. The “Daily News” Berlin correspondent says that public opinion is intrigued by the projected grandiose schemes partly Governmental and partly private for converting Ruhr and Lower Silesia into vast, oil producing basins. Research experts claim successful experiments have proved that pit can lie produced from coat, without the wasteful process of gasification, making Germany an oil exporter, instead of an oil importer, revolutionising industry and giving Germany a great, start in the struggle' for the world’s market. Essen and Silesian magnates have spent thousands in experiments of Professor Bergius, a prominent. Mannheim chemist, whose secret process is claimed to produce oil six times the value of the original coal. THE PALESTINE TROUBLE. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) PARIS, Aug. 9. The newspapers dealing with lie Syrian revolt says the Druses are demanding the recall of General Sarrail’s subordinate. C.'apt. Carbillet. 'I bey state be treated the natives arbitrarily and vexatioiisly. Trouble culminated in Carbillet forbidding Arab chiefs to offer hospitality to travellers, insisting that travellers should patronise a new hotel. The Arabs demurred against violating the ancient traditions of hospitality and hinted that Carbillet was linanc'ialy interested in the hotel. Carbillet thereupon arrested them. ami compelled to work on roads such chiols as continued to entertain travellers. Sarrail refused to receive a deputation of Chiefs headed by .Vessel Bey, repasting Carbillet’s recall. “Very well, rifles shall speak” said Uessib. and a revolt of sixty thousand Druses began two days’ later.

EMPLOYERS AND WORKERS AGREE. (Received this day at 8 a.in.) LONDON. August 9. The Conference of the wool textile employers and workers agreed to abide by the findings of the Court ot Enquiry to l>e appointed by the Ministry of Labour, but an agreement has not yet been reached on the question of terms immediately on a resumption of work. The conference resumes on Monday.

ESSENTIAL FOR SOCIALISM. break up of empire. LONDON. Aug. !). Mr Oallagher. Chairman of the Communist Party, speaking at the Lidmur Party’s summer school, outlined the party's policy. He said the Communists believe in developing every wage trouble with a view to creating the will .for power which will result in a working class dictatorship. In no other way can capitalism be overthrown. The only guarantee cl a peaeelul revolution that he would accept would he the disbandment of the army, navy and police by capitalism. Mr Gallagher said be did not imagine a Labour majority would mean a peaceful polka into Socialism. Ibe Communists wen: the enemies ot MacDonald's Socialism, because it was based on the illustration that capitalism could !■« reformed into Socialism. Mr Gallagher said the Empire was devised to obtain cheap raw matciial and Imperialism, was used lor the deli Iterate corruption of the working class loaders. The break up of the Empire was essential to the establishment of Socialism.

ST IN NFS AEF A IBS. BERLIN. August 9

While the blinking group con dun mg the liquidation of Similes' nmc-cru, emphatically denies dillcrences have arisen with (Stilines’ family. the “Rheiuisch Westfaerxchc Zeitung” the mouthpiece of the family, says the banks are unwilling to assume additional obligations oil the ground that fresh liabilities are continually being discovered. The paper adds that unless the Banks alter their methods, the concern "ill declare bankruptcy, or request- the Court to supervise the liquidation. ft asserts that Schaclit, Presi-

dent of Reiehshnnk approves of the action of the banks, thereby surrendering German eronomie life to ruin. The paper also- says if the concern is declared a bankrupt, the Lail, themselves will require assistance.