BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[“Tin* ’fiMica” Service.] STRIKE SETTLED. PEKIN’, August -1. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Japanese shippers al Canton have reached an agreement under which the Chinese seamen return to Japanese ships. SOVIET AIRMEN. PEKIN. August 21. Two Soviet aeroplanes completed the journey from .Moscow to Canton where they were welcomed hy a procession of Russians ami Chinese carrying hauners inscribed *' Cancel Unequal Treaties.” AN ASSASSINATION. PEKIN, August 21. I.paoehunghoi, a leading Holshevik member of the Canton Government has Leon assassinated. JA I’ANESE SENTENCES. TOKIO, August 20. Sario, an ex-professor of Waseda University, and Sakai, a veteran socialist leader, were sentenced each to ten months imprisonment on charges of complicity in the recent Communistic intrigues. Twenty accomplices were given eight to ten months penal servitude. E'NTIP.K STREETS DESTROYED. DELHI, August 21. Advices from Bagdad state a fire at Basrah destroyed entire streets of humble homes, the damage being estimated at £BOOO. INTERNATH >NA L BROAD! 'A ST I NO. 810 IMPROVEMENTS. LONDON, August 20. International broadcasting programmes will commence in a few weeks owing to a distinct advance in the British and American broadcasting stations. A super-receiving station has been erected in Kent, which will pick up. “Kdka” experiments show that tiie distortion of static has licen practically eliminated. The holders of crystal sets will thus !«• able to hear items from America, Austria and Germany incidental to a British programme. An official Britsli broadcasting statement says. "The time is nearly here when a, man broadcasting from London will bo beard practically everywhere in the world. The new station in Kent operates on "Rower” valves as yet. This, together with the new discoveries, insures purer transmissions.” DEMONSTRATION AT FUNERAL. LONDON, August 20. 'There were violent demonstrations made by a hostile crowd at the funeral of Mrs Vaughan, and her three children, of Birkenhead. The woman, following her release from gaol on bail on a charge of theft threw herself into the river Mersey, alter throwing in her six children, three of whom were rescued. One thousand people lined the route. Angry women rushed the coach in which the deceased woman s husband was riding, and they succeeded in opening tbc door. There was another .scene when the coach was halving the cemetery. Vaughan, seeking a favourable opportunity, slipped away. GERMAN TAR lEE REGULATIONS. BERLIN, August 20. The New Tariff regulations regarding the importation of grain, Hour, sugar, cattle and fresh meat will operate oil the first ol September, and those as to ail other goods on the Ist of October. CHINESE BRIGANDS. LONDON, August 20. The ‘ Daily Express ” has received a cable that.Cliine.se brigands captured the following belonging to the church -missionary society near £ hangtulu: Bishop and Mrs Nowell, of Dover; the Rev. and Mrs Donnithorne. of Wimbledon ; and Major lies of Kensington; Miss M. Arfieid of Australia, and two other women. All are being well treated. MOTOR CYCLE TRIALS. LONDON, August 21. Sixty-five motor cyclists arrived at Idamlrrin Dodweils, completing eight hundred miles, and tile positions in the international contest are: Britain one and two; Australia three; Norway four. Germany and Holland no longer liave complete teams. Provisional results show Williams and Gregory have not lost n single mark. ZIONIST MOVEMENT. VIENNA, August 20. The Zionist Congress here passed a resolution in favour of the Palestine establishment, also of a loan ol con million dollars, lloatable under the auspices of the League of Nations for the purpose, and in favour of the establishment of industrial hanks in Palestine. BRITISH STRATEGIC AIRWAYS. LONDON, August 20. The “Daily Chronicle ” states Imperial Airways Limited party will leave London to-morrow to survey the first commercial empire air line between Kantara and Karachi, which is a link in a line which will eventually fly between England and Australia. Meanwhile, new Empire air planes, capable of a hundred miles an hour, are being built. A special type of metal air boat is being designed to fly from Calcutta to Rangoon, taking mails from Rangoon. Tic will he borne hy air relays to Singapore, and thence to Port Darwin.