BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] SIR A. COCKS. RESIGNATION. LONDON, September 17. Sir A. A. Cocks declines to make any statement concerning his sudden relinquishment of the office of N.S.AY. Mi Commissioner. Sir Timothy Cojiglilnn takes t O-MKIITDW.

Sir A. A. Cocks spent this afternooi bidding fan-well to his staff and tin other Agenls-Oeneral. Despite his re licence it is apparent he feels sameresentment over the situation, espee inlly as he first learned of the cluing, through persistent newspaper rmnotit'i from Australia. All along In- had fell impelled to disregard rumours in at assurance that if the change were contemplated, he would he the first to receive word direct from the Cabinet o' bis being superseded. Sir A. A. Cockfully informed the (lovernment ol tic rumours. Me subsequently learned of firially that the Cabinet had (onsidered bis request for information, and lawns then informed that it was in the best interests of New South Wales that he should resign. The press comments state tin change in the (lovernment ol New South Wales, made Sir A. A. Cockposition uncomfortable. During hitcnuie ol the agency, lie vllected a saving ot a thousand yearly in hank inlt arrangements. It is understood that, previous to his resignation. Sir A. A. Cocks opener negotiations. LONDON. September 15.I 5 . Sir A. Cocks, interviewed. Used tin phrase ••relinquish the position deliberately,” as lie did not desire to con tinuc in view of the antagonism n. the (lovernment. The Premier had failed either to respond to the opportunity given him to deny the rumouror the statements attributed to bin by the press. Cocks said lie would not have come to London if lie had hoci. made aware that support was to lr withdrawn Me bail hoped to re-estab-lish the usefulness, prestige and valut of the Ageney-Ccncral. lull this wu> impossible, owing to the Coverumeut , attitude.

CONAN DOYLE'S CATASTROI'M f LONDON, Sept. 17.

In elaborating his statement regarding the coming of a catastrophe on the world. Sir -V. Conan Doyle says:- “Ihe warnings have been so persistent for three years that I feel it my duty to make public a matter which is one of urgency. According to the spirit communications. the war was meant as a eluistener .but it lias tailed in that object. So the world must still undergo a spiritualising intluence. which ahme can avert destruction. I do not knew what form the chastening will take. Aly wife, who is my medium for warnings, is not hysterical. Any imputations that site is giving way to her feelings cannot he levelled against- her. Undoubtedly the warnings come from somewhere beyond coiiiprohoiision. There is some consolation in an indication England will escape more lightly in the coming catastrophe than any other nation.”

A (IR.AITirC DESCRIPTION. TETUAN. Sept. 17. A gra| hie description of their lighting in tropical heat, on the arid mountains. without communications, is given by survivors of the garrison of Kudiutahar. They were suddenly enveloped in gun fire and grenades, causing twenty casualties the first day. (uirrassing \he efforts ol ‘.he defenders to protect their own munition dumps which wore momentarily threatening to explode. Twenty-four artillerymen attempted to cross the enemy lines, hut. fourteen were killed, including I’ilasou. On the fourth day. their surgical dressings gave out. and their water was exhausted. The delonders depended on the uncertain aim ol tho Spanish air men for scanty scrapice. A native levy made a sortie at night time and brought hack a little water, which was distributed in spoonfuls. Enter. Cant. Znrnzibnr was killed and the losses were increased by artillery fire. Finally, the troops were exhausted. They sucked potatoes sprinkled with sugar. 7’Tion they received nil inspiring wireless message, exhorting them to hold on as help was coming. Regular for.es from Afelilla got through on Scpteml>er Pith, and they found the survivors on the point of collapse, hut still holding out.

EXPLORING EXPEDITION. LONDON, .September 17. Dr Hartman, the head of the Hartman Deco Sea Expedition, has arrived here from New York, to complete tin plans for extensive under-wafer exploration on the Italian and Tunisian coasts. He proposes to study the ancient civilisation buried below the Mediterranean Sea. The Doctor claims that he lias perfected a deep-sea diving apparatus whereby his is capable of exploring at any depth from four thousand to sixteen thousand feet. The apparatus consists of a steel cylinder with a thirty-six hours’ supply of oxygen. The apparatus is at present being completed hv Krupps. Dr Hartman says he will investigate the animal plant resources of the ocean w|h|ich exceed those on land, and tuc oil-hearing strata will also be investigated with a view to future supplies. Initial surveys will be made in the Rav of Naples off Pusilipo. where the massive ruins of a city, known to geographers as Submarine Pompeii, he in comparatively shallow water.

SPANISH WOMAN’S RECORD. MADIHD. September IS. A woman, aged living at \ alIndolia, has given birth to her 29th soil. She has never had a daughter.

PLANE FOR ANTARCTIC. LONDON. September 17. .■Captain Wilkin’s aeroplane has llown from Tonsherg to a Norwegian Aircraft station, where it is now undergoing a final overhauling, hemre crossing the North Sea. I here is a possibility that it will he exhibited at Wembley lie fore Hie exhibition closes. Cnpt. Wilkins intends broadcasting descriptions of his last Australian and forthcoming Antartic expeditions. RUBBER. AMALGAMATION. _ LONDON, September 17. The amalgamation i-, announced ot the Dunlop Rubber Company with the f\i-in of Goodyear and Sons, Worcestershire.

A PRIEST’S ACTION. VIENNA. September IS. Rev. Father Pap. a Catholic priest, at Sz.atmar, in the course of a crusade against alleged indecent lemale attire, noticed a woman teacher kneeling at the side of the altar in a lowcut modern dross. The priest ordered the sexton to expel the woman. She refused to go. bather Pap then stop pod the service, and thrashed the woman, throwing her out of the church When the worshippers realised the action of the angry priest, they left the cln rch as a protest. JAP UPPER HOUSE AFIRE. (Received this day at S a.m.) TOKIO. September I?A fire completely gutted the Upper Houses of Parliament. There are no details. The fire, at present, is spreading.