BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOR EIGN NEWS

[Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.] CAUGHT IN Tli F. ICK. STEAMERS APPFAL FOR JIFI.P. VANCOUVER, Sept. 14. A wireless call asking fur help has been received at Nome from the limison Hay Company's steamer ILtychino, reporting that she is gripped in the ice one hundred miles northwest ei Bci'schcll [shiud, with her starboard stove in far twenty-four feet ami leaking at the rate oi eight feet daily. The steamer has one million dollars worth of furs nhoard, picked tip at various trading stations. A. relief steamer is being titled at Nome for immediaie dispatch, hut a tragedy is feared before she will he able to reach the Rayehino. jammed it's she is among ohe naek ice.

GH< > \ VIN G UNF A! t' 1.0 Y All •: XT. A SOU,'TION OFFERED. I .ON DON. Sept. PI. The "Daily Kxpress'’ in an editorial, deplores the growing unemployment. Ii would he worth five hundred' million sterling to Britain to convert one and a half million unproductive Britishers into productive Australians. New Zealander- or Catidaians. Why cannot- it he done. All heard phrases, such as f,>ught for Knglaiid and will stay liere." We sympathise with the man who loves his country, hut do not svmpaihisi* with the man who prefers tii,. dole when lie knows that his manflood and independence lie in Australia nr New Zealand. There are admitted hardships there, hut they are glorious hardships. If the Government, in coniain t ini i with the Dominions, did its niirt in the s"iril of Englishmen. it would prove the same as of old. The unfilled fields of Australia. New Zealand and Canada, and the tragic thousands of our streets, plead alike for a strong leader.

U.S. TANKS. PAULS. Sept. I-!. New taxes to meet the budget, deficit include an increase of income derived from the capital lax to twenty per ei-nt.. enmniercial industries profits fifteen, salaries ten. while there will |„, two .new taxes tin unproductive real estate or acquired wealth. Till-; TARIFF QUESTION. LONDON. Sept. 12. •f!„. Dailv News, in an editorial, savs: A list ra i ia’s new taritf is another example of the dubious advantage ot Imperial preference to Britain. Australian products have free a. cess to ihe British market, whereas British good- sent to Australia are handicapped by fi.niiiilalife tariffs. Tl'.ey iml .V ,-eeeive slight modifications of such lari if- a- coinpai'ed with He- toreigticr. The Ansi ml inn Ibutse .iismis.es at a t.lmv ei>t ton tweeds as an in.xiguiiiettllfc item, hut in view of tin* represent alions made we hope the C.mitttumvwtilli will modify it' proposals. Kxpenstye machinery was laid down speeta.lv to supply cot ton tweeds for Australia at a time when it was not suspect dt tnat tliev would he given sucli disconnecting preference as a t.ardi don iltng tin* selling juice. NOVELIST'S AVI I"F DKAD. Xl-'AY YORK. September 13. i.aily Amy Parker, aged Oh wile of lb - C-inaihau novelist and statesman, died on Saturday. She had been ill i,-ar with earner. BANKP.UPTCIKS. HF.Hf.IN. Sept. lb ■fl,,, ,i-ieii.-e oi an industrial crisi- in Gem,any i- evidenced by the lan that, vbei-ea.s there were 2od bankruptcies in PJ2-L there wen L.ll-S in 1021. and 1.32! in the first halt ~f | !I2T. There were TD7 bankrttpteios in .)nfv. being at the rate of OYfil P<‘ r annum. Those are apart from other linns plat ed under Court- suf ervision, owing 1., finatieta! toubie. Ihe textile. autoneihile and maeliine building firms are badly put. AVIATION. PA I! IS. Sept. 13. Tim airmen ( o-ie anil I Itierry lelt Ft antfies aerodrome, this morning to attempt, a non-stop Right to Constantinople. liaginlad. Huneeralias and Kara. Itt. PAHJS, Sept. 13. Tlte airmen Thierry and lie Coste, who set out for a (light to the F.ast, encountered a tlti.-k fog over the Hlaek Forest, lau-ing a loss of direction. They at tempted to land ill lie? |,g ami i-ra-heil into a tree. Thierry wa- killed while Do Coste was slightly injured. IT I F SPritITUA LISTS. LONDON. Sept. 13. Tii .Morning Post's Paris i orroepoiideitt says: The: Spiritualists’ Congress. v, i.iefi was crow .led with believer-. an ! overerowded with unlsdievers, i no.iunicr. ’ i; :iy .scepticism, together with demands for material proofs. It was decided that steps lux taken to in. .-i tlie problem of abolishing tho medium of the flesh as the only means of communication with the spirit world. It was suggested that- the human mediums should be replaced by -..me media idea! device of an unknown eharacter, wlii> h would eliminate front the message- the uncertain element of a human transmitter. T he s' iritualisis were divided on tlm point, whereupon one suggested that a (lower should he eultivateo. The majority accepted a pronouncement that th<* higher world had promised. a- reward f.r earnest otfi-e, that ue-.v means .»f eommunication