BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia A N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON -BRI HI I TON WALK. LONDON. Seplemltcr |l. Baker (Queen'- Park Harriers. 192 winner) wain the London to Bright,n walk in eight hours sixteen minute sixteen seconds. (Danville (Cami liaii 8 hours 28 mins, -isecs.. was second Horton. 8 hours. 37 mins. 7 sees, third (Danville came from Outraio ex pre-sly to attack Rosses' record ol 8 hours I I mins. Msecs. lie led in | lie early stages. 1, 11 1 Baker passed hill when Hiirty-l'niir miles on the wav.

IHD;K I’R A U 1)8 IN HUNGARY LON DON. Se|,l . 11

The “Daily Chronicle’-” Rmlapes correspondent reports (be sensaliomi arrest of thirty persons. ami-,-,1 o being implicit I e.i in wholesale lorgen and e nmterfeil ing. Those arrested ii elude a Jewish ItalT’ii. known as ••miracle Babbi.” on account of bis special powers of healing. The polite an endeavouring to locale Hie master mint of Hie scheme. wh-> is known to hr one of (be most skilful and daugeroucountoiTeiimo in Europe. Certain informa I inn led the police to believe that thousands of mi-sing Holes wen- seerclrd in a Jewish cemetery. A superficial examination proving fruitless, they ilng up Hie whole graveyard, and searched H'e eofkn-. The Jewish community were shocked, and they hold a special service and expressed their grief in Hie .Dovish manner by rending their garments. A large and devoted following declare Hint the Rabbi is the victim of .-in must a nees. and many influential people are willing to go to prison as host ages.

Huge forgeries of English and Amor iea:i and {’out mental holes, postage -tamps, and passports have 1.e.-n traced to the same source. I,til the “master crook” has evaded arrest for Pi ve

A. LABOUR VERDICT. LONDON. Sepi. 11

The Trade ('..iifereiiee discussed the Dawes plane on a resolution condemning Hie plan ns Hie enslavement of t In* Gorina n workers, and also declaring that, tlm long hours and low wages in Germany are due to the employers' .successful ell'ort to place Hie burden of lie. plan upon the German workers; and flirt her that tlm Plan makes it impossible for tlm British millers to compete with the German miners win, are on low wages. The resolution was carried by a large majority.

INVITATION TO GERMANY PARIS. September 1

An invitation has been issued to Germany with a view' to meeting the Foreign Ministers in Swa liter in ml lot the elaboration of the Security Pat C

THE ESCAPED PRINCE. PARIS. September 13

The manager ol an Imlel i u t lie uh in I. ol Brunov 'late- that a man nun lwo attendant re-ides there Irom the 3rd Sept, till la-t night, when dorear took them ulf. The man admitted lie was the mi-sing Egyptian. Prince Seilfediu and enjoined the manager to

FASCISM BEING REBORN. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) ROME. September 13. sq'guor Eatinaeei. general secretary of the Eii-cist Party, celebrated the anniversary of the murder of the Fascist deputy. M. Cnsalini. by writing to Premier Mu-sohiii. giving a glowing account ot the strength nt fascism, lie -ays that in addition to the political forces which number Plin.lKld, the movement comprise- 31. national trade unions with a membership ol 1 NlO.lldO. a flourishing seamen s union. i'.3,0 municipal Indies. ID provincial administrations, and the railwaymeii’s union with a membership ol "9,009. .Mussolini, replying, -ay- the Inundations of the Fascist State already laid in Italy are being reborn. U.S.A. AIR FORCE ENQUIRY. WASHINGTON. September 12. President Coolidge Ini- appointed a special board to conduct a -weeping enquirf into Hie adequacy ol American

BIG SELLING CA.MI’AIGN. I,ON DON, Septeinher I I

The British shopkeeper- and trailers wmi have extensively ordered Empire prod nee. stated they Wore (list nil,ed by the reported plan of the American and Continental combines, to launch a big selling campaign in Britain, directed against Empire footlsltifls a- soon as Wemhle.v closes. The campaign was designed to regain the markets won by the Dominions through the medium of the Exhibition.

The manager ol a provision depat tpent of a leading (Vest End house, tie■hired that if the Dominions’ produce suffered heavily through Ameiiean •ompetition in the near luture. the fault would entirely lie with the Dominions. The hitler’s position would he unassailable now ii Hiev had advertised extensively from the opening of [lie exhibition, instead whereof they relied wholly on the Home wholesalers iml retailers.

PROGRESS OK WIRELESS. LONDON, Septeinher 13.

At the opening of the annual wireless exhibition at Albert Hall, Mr Wolmer calculated that there were alrendv over ten million listeiiers-in in Britain alone. The vista ot opening up the future was almost illimitable. Wireless was making Hie world smaller and was playing a predominant part in uniting the Empire. Mr .Marconi confessed that the progress ol radio had bewildered him. lie -aid a Government Department had criticised, hut he found nothing to criticise in the manner wherein the Rost Office was dealing with wireless.