BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

['‘Trni' Times” Service.] TBC ESCAPED PRINCE. I.ONDON. Sept. 3. A- the result of the publication of hi- photograph a number of passengers to Hniilnj'iie from Hastings declare that they saw a man aboard roseinliling the missing Prince Ahmed. The Daily Chronicle says Prince Ahmed's disappearance was the outcome of :ni elaborate- plot the successful aeomplishiuent of which was due to many months of organisation. The plot is I'elievod to have lieeit engineered hy an English professional man with a strong iaste for adventure, who ai ted as the intermediary between the Prince and his mother. It is stated that the Prince’s relative- are prepared to spend a fortune, if necessary, in seen ring his release. Fabulous stuns are mentioned as the reward.

TIIE A IT. 1111 LANDING. LONDON. September 2. The ft a tteo-Spauish are employing li It \ warships tu cover the Adjir landSHOWER OF SHELLS. PARIS, September 2. Alfonso XIII rained twelve inch shells into the village fortress of Adjir and combed two valleys through which the Bill's might have been retreating. LEPROSY CURED. HONOLULU. September 2. Alter six months, the surgeons at a Leper Receiving Hospital have cured all Hie eases they have treated with radium, aceording to the annual report of ih" Territorial Board of Health. This is the tir-t time that radium ever has Ih-i'ii used for this purpose. IRISH BOUNDARY. LONDON. September 3. The " Daily Express's” Ikdiast correspondent believes that a eoitlerenco is likely between Sir .lames Craig t Ul-ter Premier) and President Cosgrave 'ol the Irish Free State) regarding the boundary. Ala. MII.LAX EXPEDITION. WASHINGTON, September 3. Tie- liowdoin reaiiied H'llstenhorg on Monday. The Peary is .'UK) miles behind her. hut ln making good proA NEW GOVERNOR. SUVA. Septendier 3. The Sonoma has arrived from San Erunriseo on Iter way to Sydney. Governor 11 tit -"it i- a passenger for Sydney. en runie to the Solomon Islands. VISION OE TIIE FUTURE. I.()X IX )X. September 2. The air liner of the future will ho an all-steel monoplane of 220 leet wing -nan. with uirnmtt'odatiou for one hundred. and a speed of over 100 knots, aceording to Air Oliver Simmonds, -peaking before the British Association. The machine would tly upwards of li ft eon hundred miles without alighting. The Europe to America trip, with one stop at the Azores, would he completed in :{ii hours. WAR OFFICE POLICE. LONDON. September 2. The " Evening Standard ” says that Mr L. Worthington Evans explains that Hie War Oilin' has deeidetl to no longer Iniris'w Loudon’s poling hut to have its own force of 2<Hi men. available to guard tie Depart merit's stores. This forie i- being openly enlisted, and heat's not the -lightest relation to possible industrial trouble.