BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

(.Australia iv N.Z. Cable Association ]

DA BLIPS SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS LONDON, Sept. 17.

The Westminster “Gazette” in declaring that sinster facts at present unpublishable will shortly be revealed ■suggesting successive British Governments’ complicity in the ineareratieni of Prince Sezide Seil'eddin, demands the closest enquiry and asserts that Seil'eddin was never insane. Originally he was brought to Britain by a British officer belonging to Lord Cromer's stall' at the time when tho British were consolidating their position in Lgypt and anxious to conciliate iJii- Royal House. The Government and lunacy c.nninssicnters repeatedly rebidfod friends seeking to establish the Di'ince’s sanity, refusing an independent examiuatic.il. The "Gazette” asks whether the Foreign Office ordered Scotland Yard’s s|n'cial branch to intimidate persons assisting in the escape. TEA STYLES. CALCUTTA, Sept. 17. At tlu* Tea sales there was a good demand for all grades. The market advanced one to two annas for common and medium hrnkens and leaf. SLIFLDDIX TO APPEAL. LONDON. September 1(1. Prince Scifeddm will appeal to 'ho League of Nations.

NEW INDUSTRIAL ALLIANCE LONDON. Sept. 1«,

The* delegates to a conference .of the Locomotive Engineers and Firemen's Society have decided to enter ihe proposed new Industrial Alliance.

BRITISH Ml SKIPS. LONDON. Sept. 17. Mr W. Churchill, at Birmingham, referring to the recent threats of Mr \. T. Conk (See ri'tary of file Miners’ Fedoralinn) said that no stoppage of the coalfields would subvert the stale hut it would imperil the national I rad*'. The Government had no i.H*tentioii of allowing a great national change such as the nationalisalion of ijhc mines to he foisted on the public. No industrial dispute could arise with which the House of Commons mid not full power to cope. U.S.A. MINERS. STRIKE. LONDON. Sept. IG. The Daily Herald states that the Committee of the International .Miners’ Federation, sitting at Brussels have decided that measures he taken to prevent Welsh coal li(*iug sent to America if such exports alfecied the preesnt strike of Hie American anthracite miners. KV MSI OX OF STAMP LAM’. LONDON. Sept. 17. Miss 1 inrie. a New Zealander, the proprietress of a well-known Austra-lian-New Zealand resort, the Black Swan Restaurant, in the West Australian Agency Buildings, was lined £7O. the maximum penalty, for not stamping her waitresses’ insurance cards. The Daily Express protests against this as excessive punishment, describing the line as a crippling one. It points out that Miss Tmrie is working to popularise Empire products. COST OF CLOTHES. LONDON, Sept. 16. The “Daily Herald” states that good reasons exi-t for a substantial reduction in the cost oi clothes. ’lhe wholesale prii-es of fabric have fallen considerably. hut the Yorkshire producers complain that the retailers have l>eeii too slow to respond, and the cost ill the retail shops is approximately as high as the* prices ruling during tho boom. Cloth costing Gs lid wholesale a; Bradford, is being retailed at 18s. Moreover, there is a prospect of a further reduction in wholesale prices. ROOK LAW RELIEF. UINDON. Sept. 10. The Health Ministry has decided not to recede from its attitude towards the West Ham Board of Poor Law Guardians. 'I lie* Ministry lias decided it sell to issue' food tickets not exceeding L'lo.Oun weekly, when the Guardian'- re-inireex are exhausted. Its decision may need legislation and is likely to he extended to several other boroughs and parts of Glasgow, where a situation similar to that of West Flam is rapidly approaching.