BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[“Tdw ’.Cimes” Service.] - FIRE ON STEAMER. LONDON, August 18. A fire in the engine room of the steamer Suffolk caused her to be docked at Glasgow. 'Tin* damage totals £SOO. NO CONFIDENCE IN STINNES. BERLIN, August 18. A decided lack of confidence in young Edmund Stiuncs was expressed in a statement by the group of banks liquidating the Stinnes concerns, they refusing to come to the rescue of the Stinnes Aga .Motor Works while Edmund Stinnes exercises an influence therein. As regards the general liquidation operations, the banks state that one-third of the entire indebtedness of the concern was discharged without making necessary any resource io the open market. .MOTOR. TRIALS. LONDON. August 18. Three German teams retired in the motor cycle trial. It is only necessary for one of the three English teams to complete the trial to retain the trophy. The three Australians are. exceptionally speedy and are sure on the stiff hill climbs, where many others came to grief. There were two accidents over the Westland Moorlands. One rider over-turning, sustained a broken rib, and the other’s tyre burst, resulting in concussion. The Australians are offering the greatest resistance to England for the International Silver Vase. Holland and Germany have retired. THE. .MOSUL PROBLEM. LONDON. August 19. The correspondent ol the “Daily Telegraph” at Constantinople says the Turkish Delegation to the League of Nations will demand me unconditional return of Alosul to Turkey as the only real solution of the problem. OOAI AfEXIST PROPAGANDA. LONDON. August- 18. The official Labour leaders are not excited over the recent letter from tho Communist Party (cabled August 17). Air Appleton (Secretary tof the General Federation of Trade Unions) declared that the Army and Navy arc too full of men of sound common-sense for any propaganda, such as is suggested in the letter, to do much harm. COST OF BRITISH WHEAT LONDON, August 18. A second report by flic Royal Commission on wheat supplies shows there has been a nett loss of alwnit £148,000.000 representing the cost of the bread subsidy to the nation, namely £162.000,000. Miscellaneous profits on tiu* Commission’s trading operations were £2-1.000,000. “BIG BROTHER” AIOVEAIENT. LONDON. August 17. The “Big Brother” movement was snc-essfully launched at a luncheon in tin* City Chain he i* at Glasgow. The Lord Provost presided over a representative gathering. The ‘Daily Alail" in its editorial warmly applauds the Big Brother Movement, and trusts it will spread to all the Dominions and have a worldwide influente for good. ANTI-.) EWISII 1 >KAIONSTRATIONS. VIENNA. August 10. Renewed anti-Jew ish demonstrations here resulted in .seventy arrests. Many of these arrested were found anne-.l with revolvers, knives and other weapons. FRANCE'S DEBTS TO U.S.A LONDON, August 19. News of tho Belgian-!!.S.A, debt agreement reached London from Was ington too late for comment. Th •‘Alorning Post’s” Paris correspondent earlier stated that France was watching the Washington negotiations wi. most intense interest. She realised that i his settlement must have a direct influence on her own problem. France now recognises that neither sentimental nor political arguments will i have the least influence on the Americans. who will insist on treating tho debt question with no more idealism than in their usual business relations. i TEA SALES. i (Received this day at 8 a.m.) , CALCUTTA, August 19., I At the tea sales good liquoring teas were barely steady, with all other de- , scriptions lower. Poor, medium and 1 common brokers declined from half to ) 1 \ annas; poor stalky descriptions, half an anna ; lower fair common Pekoe Souchong, seven annas six pice. ECOXO.MIC CO.MAI.ITTKE’S MEAT j REPORT. ! (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, August 19. The “ Daily Alail ” says that the Imperial Economic Committee's next re- , port dealing with meat recommends the compelling of meat to he marked ] with the country of origin. The report suggests improved methods in transport and chilling instead of freezing and outlines better facilities for the export of British pedigree stock to the Dominions. i DANGER OF .MINORITIES. ; LONDON, August 19. I The “ Times ” in a leader discussing the Communists’ attempt to subvert the fighting services, says the Labour Party is inclined to regard the British Communists as negligible and an unimportant faction numbering five thousand and therefore beneath contempt; but, according to Lenin’s 1918 estimate : only fifty thousand Russian C'ommunI ists disrupted a nation of one hundred and filly millions. OBITUARY. LONDON, August 19. Obituary:—.Miss Helen Gladstone, daughter of W. E, Gladstone. C'O.M.M EXISTS ATTEMPTED OUTRAGE. PARIS, August 19. All out rage was attempted at the Champs Elysecs when a hand of forty Bulgarian Communists attacked Theodore Kuulieff ami Boris Yusoff, President and Vice-President of the Bulgarian Kobrnuie who were visiting Paris m connection with the decorative arts exhibition. The Parliamentarians managed to take refuge in a motor’ bus which the assailants rushed. The polii£ were compelled to draw their revolvers. The situation was threatening when police reinforcements arrived and dispersed the demonstrators, two of whom were arrested.