BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

AUHTRAMAK AND N.Z. CAfII.K ASSOCIATION COMMUNISTS CLIMB DOWN. LONDON, Scptemlier 0. The Communists learning the police are in possession of secret instructions for their immediate arrest have modified their plans. They announce their agitation will not touch the army and navy, hut will he confined to the factories.

C.S.A. All! EoRCE CORRUPTION (Received Lhis day at lII.It a.m.) WASHINGTON. Sept. it.

A represent ati vc ot Ihe Wa r I )epa 1 1 ni * * 111 i- proceeding to San Antonin, Texas, where Colonel .Mitchell is expected 1,0 reaffirm hi- 'barges of the noil-administration of air defence. A politic coiirl-mai ! in! aill probably tie (oiiveued al S.-in Antonio, or Washington. within a mouth. C-mvietior for insubordination or dr-re-pe-i. i- anticipated. and the Court will fix (lie punishment, which i- noL limited by Statute. It i- tod the .sentence will l«- dismissal from the army, which 1011-1 have the President'- approval.

SAVATIOX ARMY MIGRATION i LON DON. Sepi.

'file Salvationist. ('em m i-simier Lamb, is sailing on a world tour, including Australia and New Zealand to survey migration po.-sihilit ies A RADIO WONDER. (Received this day at 11.2-5 a.in.i LONDON. September in. Sir Oliver Lodge, in a message to the National Association of Radio Manufacturers sal's the llviolc harnessing election tor the pinpo-i- of communication. may bo an event in human history coital to the initiation ul railway locomotion and cleitrie telegraphs. It bids fair to make the twentieth century eclipse the nineteenth. The apparatus employed has almo-r reached perfect ion. ehiotlv owing to Ihe labourami enthusiasm of amateurs. The achievement ill long distance signalling hy short waves and constantly improving selectivity, hold out the exper tation that, further advances will lx possible in directions at present un-

11 DUBS. THE IDOL. LONDON. September Id. Ilohhs is becoming something akin to a national idol. A statute has iust been executed -bowing him m flannels hearing his signature with the date o! his ri". ord breaking season. I hi- will lie soli! on lii'li si 11 of Middlesex Hospital. The National Dahlia Society has named one ot it- llowers -lack Ilohhs.” AMUNDSEN’S PLANS. LONDON. September According Lo Lieut. Kiiscr Larsen Amundsen in a .semi-rigid airship wil leave Rome on March 2tith. tly to I'.ngla lid, and thence to Spi t/.hergen Amundsen plans to lly across the Pole to Point Barrow. lie will take tin same clew as previously, with the addition of Anim.'iliman is commander. Altogether the crew will he sixteen

•• A BAD OMEN. ” l.( IN l)t >N. September P. While lie.. I'ca-ihm wa- conduct in*; a funeral service in Cumberland the wind carried hi- clerical cap from a Collin lid to the open grave. lie -tin sei|Uentiy remarked. " I think that is a had omen.” He appeared much pm turhed ami burr was found dead ill bed.

A (’(,)( ITT UP. LONDON. September tf Gray (cabled on A iigu-l Ml h) waaei|iiitted. SEVEN YEARS MAN HUNT. (Received tbi- day at 11.25 a.m.t LONDON. September 0. The •• Daily Telegraph's” Berlin "orrespmideni -ay- a- astnui-hing tragi comedy ot pi.-tiee i- revealed m tin ease of Eugene .Jaeiiicke. Twenlv-liv* wars ago .laenieke commilted a lantastie murder. Through the median of a fortune-teller lie made the ae(liiiiiiitanee ot a woman ami promisee to make her wealthy by means of mag ie. .laenieke lured the wo to tin Devil’s Lake, a gloomy pool in tin midst of fir forests, where in the garl of a monk, he gave the woman a how: of strychnine. faking the keys iron; tin* dead body .laenieke hurried her t< a flat in Berlin where he stripped it of the valuables. He was sentenced ti death, hut appealed and was i-oiilinei to till asylum, whence lie csciiped ii 101 S. ’fill' nolice, alter a vain -card for seven years, have now traced .Lie nieke, whom they identified by imam of singular tattooing*.

OFFENSIVE CONTIXFED. (Received this day at 11.25 a.in.) TANGIER. Sept. KM 'Following the landing at tb“ Bar of (Vhadillii and the seizure of tie heights round the Bay oi Alhiironiathe Spanish troops, me continuing thei olfensive. They have begun to ad vance in the direction of Ajdir. tin |J ill's headquarters. Operations ne developing favourably. The Kills si far are resisting; lcebly. I'll !•; MOSF I. Ot'KSTION. OF.NFVA. Sept. 10.

The Turkish memorandum on lie Mosul question lias been published It is largely an attempt to refute lb argument of the lion. B. ( . M- •j", Amer.v. It contends the League wd he acting in opposition to the l.eagm Covenant if it prolonged the Birtlsl mandate, and adheres to the proposa to take a plebiscite in the dispute' Mosul region.