BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[’ Times” Service.] BRITISH MINERS PROSECUTED. LONDON, Aug. 28. Hon sixty policemen guarding a colliery at Glynneath saw a crowd ot four thousand appear on the brow ol a mountain brandisltiiijj sticks was liescribed by a police .superintendent m the Police Court, when twenty-one miners were charged with unlawful assembly and breach of the pence-. Ttu ease was a sequel to the events on July 30th.. 31st. and August Bth. The witness said lie met the crowd, who announced' it was their intention to fetch the men out. Subsequently a bugle was blown, and the crowd rushed the police, who eventually reformed, drew their batons, and drove tin rioters hack. The defendants wore committed foi trial. SOCIALIST COXgKF.SN. PARIS. Aug. 28. The International Socialist C'ongres> af Marseilles unanimously condemned tin Communist International, whirl is encouraging revolution in Asia, and Africa. However, it called on the Socialist Party to combat the policy against Russia, to combat tho establishment of diplomatic economic vela tions with Soviet- Russia. It was urgent that Socialist States should he comprised in the Soviet Union to democratize their regimes and to restore political liberty. The resolution concluded by exhorting all sections of the Socialists to strive for the self-determination rights of nil oppressed peoples in Asia and Africa and the abolition of every kind id terrorism. .IfACM ILI.AN EXPEDITION. WASHINGTON, August 29. MacMillan’s ships " Peary ” and “ Rowdoitt ” are making good headway southward, according to a dispatch scut to the National Geographic Society, which said:—"Me have had a remarkable run across Melville Bay. with a strong, fair wind and no ice M'e left Greenland yesterday, we arc now oil Uperinivik. seventy-three degrees north latitude, and we are free of all the ice-fields. Me should arrive as Diskc to-morrow afternoon. The compasses of both the ” Peary and the “Bowdoin ” are very unreliable. This is duo to the removal and shifting of our gasolene barrels to give liberty to the engines. M’e shall try to make ebrrections at Diske. The 1 “Peary” will proceed to Umanak for coal and the "Bowdoin” to Edesmunils for fuel. All are well.” NEM' YORK. Aug. 29. The MacMillan expedition in Mel- • v j)i e Bay, encountered heavy weather 1 and snowstorms, so that its progress has been delayed.