BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[‘■Tf® Times” Service.J - jit* JAPANESE LABOR BILL. TOKYO, August Ov The Home Office )ui« drafted a protimed Labour Union Bill, the main (■’atntvs being the recognition of Union-' right- to sign a collective con-n-ari with employers, and the punish- < iient of employers ignoring such a right. The measure will be introduced next session of the Diet.

FRENCH SEASIDE TRAGEDY. PARIS, Aug. 9,

When Father Do la Porte saw the danger he called to the children to make a chain hy holding each other’s hands and follow him. Unfortunately the chain broke and the children were seized with panic nnd flashed frantically into the water which lay between them and dry land. Though several feet deep some hoys were carried out to sea hy the tide. The bodies were thrown ashore later in the day. Priests 1 worked upon some apparently drowned children for three hours before consciousness was recovered. All the dead were hoys. There were shocking scenes when the parents, hearing of the disaster, hurried to Chapelle not knowing whether thy would 'have to identify their own children. A GERMAN TRAGEDY. BERKUN, August 10. Professor Rosen, brother of the cxEoreign Minister, has been murdered at Breslau. His housekeeper has been arrested. H is suspected that she committed the crime to obtain the inheritance of her daughter, whom Rosen had adopted. GROSS EXT 1 ! A VAGA NCE. LONDON, August 9. The “Daily Express” states: —“Owing to the gross extravagance of the West Ham Board of Poor Law Guardians, the Cabinet is discussing the suspension of the Board, and Afr Neville Chamberlain taking over its functions. The Board’s accounts show a deficit of C-f.'il.ooo and it owes the Health Ministry £1,540,00!) for loans I and interest. It has now come to the end of its tether, and it is unable to raise any more loans. All appeals to it for an economical administration of the poor law have been fruitless. The Board's district covers Leyton, Walthamstow, and Wan. stead. Kcdi.f is Ik‘!ii<£ paid to 08,405 persons. The maximum payment is 60s weekly, the relief being sometimes in excess < f the wages paid in that district for a full day’s work. The West Ham rates are now 24s in the pound, the poor

rates alone being 9s. AIR. COOK’S BOMBAST. LONDON, August 9. Air Cook, the .Miners’ Federation Secretary, speaking at ATeadowfield, declared: “The Government with largest majority in modern times has not been able to stand against united Lalmr'x steam roller. The struggle is not finished. Let me want friend Baldwin that what we did last week, we can and will do again. The Commission of Enquiry should he described as an inquest on private ownership. The failure of private ownership of the coal industry is going to cost tho nation from ten to thirty millions sterling. Before long, there will l>e the greatest political crisis in British history. Labour is then going to sweep to victory I”

AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIND. (Received this day at 9.30 a.in.) CAPETOWN, August 11. Edward Rossiter made an important archaeological discovery in wonderful torraee ruins at liiy.mga, Southern Rhodesia. Ton feet deep he found an urn containing five copper bangles. The urn crumbled to dust' but the bangles are of pure copper. It is estimated thev are eight thousand to ten thousand years old, and the work of people skilled in refining minerals.