BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia A N.Z. Cable Association. TEN-PENNY SHILLING. LONDON, September is. The Federation of British Industrie: urges the introduction of a leti-peiun shilling, to enable a. return to pre-win purchasing power of the penny, where of the present equivalent is three halfpence, and sometimes two-pence. Th< federation expresses the opinion tlial the change will reduce the cost of pro duction and living and assist in reparation of trade. NATIONALISATION f A I.LAC Y. LONDON. September IS. The " Daily Telegraph ” says M.i Lloyd George’s plan of land national! tit ion is unlikely to appeal to the electors. The Government, have Inst throe hundred thousand since l!tl!l managing fourteen small farm settlements and would lose millions if managing land throughout the country. TURKISH ATROCITIES. GENEVA, September Is. Eighty Christian refugees from Govan arrived at Zakho. They allege the Turks are infringing many atrocities driving old men, women and children on lung marches al the point of tin bayonet, with the result that main

STEAMER fOUNDERS. TOKIO, September IS. The Tomashina Main, with a crew o : thirty-four foundered in a storm ol! Pesadorcs. Six are known to h< drowned and the remainder are miss ing. .JAP PARLIAMENT HOUSES GUTTED. TOKIO, September IS. A lire believed to have been due li tbe carelessness of workmen carrying nuL repairs to the Upper House of Parliament led to tic llamcs spreatlin; rapidly and enveloping both the Diet buildings, lull as there was no wind tbe other buildings threatened, were saved. Police and troops controlled a large crowd. After raging fiercely foi more than an hour, tbe llamcs wen cunt rolled. though they are slid smouldering. The valuable documetiU an- reported in have been mainly saved. hut the Ibwliamentasv library was completely destroyed and the building' were gutted. Tbe damage is estimated in tbe neighbourhood of a million yen Cabinet is meeting to-morrow and wiP discuss the reconstruction of temporary buildings.

A tpylioou swept the south-western part of .Japan from Shikoku to Kyushu in the Osaka vicinity. Cominiiniea tioiis are partially interrupted. Then were a few casualties. The rivers an overllowing in various localities.

COMMONWEALTH LOAN. LONDON. Sept. IP. The financial News states: I hen are ruinous that arrangements are being made for a big Commonwealth loar to he lioated in about a fortnight. There is a revival of the rumours about four pen cent bank rate, but i! the report of an Australian issue b correct, there is no likelihood of any reduction in the bank rate. financial circles (a later message states) discredit- the rumour of the loan. A UNIQUE ELECTROCUTION. LONDON. Sent. lit. A fireman was electrocuted in remarkable circumstances while engaged at a city tire, lie was directing a bos: on the flames, when be suddenly collapsed. It transpired that the watei had encountered electric-discharges, the current, running up I lie stream. Tin fuel that his clothes were soaked helped to conduct the current. I Ins ilhe first occasion on record where r death lias occurred though many previously have received shocks. EXPLORING SHIP RETURNS. LONDON. Sept. IS. Syreiis and maroons sounded am the Mayor and Corporation lined U| at Dartmouth to welcome the yacht St. George, returning from her semutilh cruise of the South Pacific, bringiiu many hundreds of specimens for museums. The St. George fouled a coral reef at Rapa, and was dry (locked at Panama to examine the damage which proved slight. The municipality of Dartmouth banquetled Commander Blair and the oflieers ol the St. George. The guests included Captain Stenhouse and the officers ol the Dis covery now in harbour. Ihe ..Mayor, in a. speech-said the trip held a unique place in scientific work. Com. Ulaii said the expedition had lieen a hard struggle, hut Mr Whitley, of Cambridge, came forward at a desperaU moment and saw them through.

Professor Johnson (University Colleg. London) eulogised tbe work of the scientific stall'. He said tbe Hritisl museum would be kept busy lor some years sorting out probably ten thousand specimens of insects.

THE ESCAPED PRINCE . PARTS. Sept. 10. "1,0 Matin.” publishes details ol the flight of Prince Seefeddin from an asylum in England. It says that he embarked at Marseilles on Septcm her by the steamer l’hrygrie. which i duo at Constantinople to-dav. THE DRUSE REBELLION. ✓ PARIS. Sept. IS. A message from Beirut states : strong force of Druses last night attacked the French garrison tit Mousscifrc. A light raged until ten ill tin morning, when the Druses retired leaving several hundred dead. Ik< French claim to have captured a Drum standard and to have antlered but fen casualties. Newspapers front Beirut describe llu situation in .rebel Druse as unsettled soever.

The French commander. General Camelin. is organising, bis forces to relieve the vSueida garrison, which is being povisioned daily, in the hope that it will bold out.

BRITAIN’S TROUBLES. SOLUTTt iN— DEVELOP THE EMPIRE. (Received this day at S a.tn.) LONDON, Sept. 19. Mr J. L. Garvin, in the •‘Observer.” commenting outspokenly on tln> Stockport- hye-election. appeals to the Government “frankly to face the fact that- the country's first faith in them has gone.”

Air Garvin concludes:—“Will they give reality to words about the Empire. as our means to economic salvation? Will they raise a development loan of one hundred millions, or tetter two hundred millions, to promote, by Britsh work, materials, construction. production and communication throughout the Empire Much Liberal and Labour opinion is in favour of such a policy. Will the Alinist-ers prove they are just not big enough to do it? Mo cannot guess, but- unless the Go\ernment. in reference to trade and unemployment, rises above its nullity and mediocrity, and attempts the subsidy spirit. John Bull will soon advertise n vacancy.”

RHEUMATISMWHITE MAN’S SCOURGE. (Received this day at R.oO a.mA LONDON. September 20. Delegates to the National Conference of Friendly Societies at Brighton, declared that rheumatism, and not tuberculosis, was the white man’s scourge, causing a loss to British industry of three million working weeks annually, nn<3 wrecking the lives of

hundreds of thousands of people, who could not afford special treatment. The Secretary declared that one out of every six of the population was affected by rheumatism. The National Insuarance Act should he amended to include the most, model'll treatment for the scourge among the masses.

THE STOCK PORT BYE-ELECTION. LONDON, September 20. Tb.e “ Daily Herald ” comments that Labour polled two thousand fewer votes at Stockmirt than in the October election. This shows clearly the unpopularity ol the Baldwin Government, hut gave no indication that the nation was ready to put Labour into power. PETITIONING FOR DIVORCE. LONDON. September 20. Lord Illingworth is petitioning for a divorce. OLD-EASI I IONKD AND PRUDISH. (Received this day at B.AO a.in.) PARIS. September 20. A Parisian woman. Councillor Piquet. who is apparently, hopelessly, lighting tbe strongset opposition to permitting mixed bathing at tbe Municipal Baths, declared that Paris was old-tashioned and prudish. She linked tin* proposition with trance s declining births and marriages and argued that mixed bathing would bring young people together. It was preferable to the .scandalous under-dressing seen at t.he theatres. SEI FED DIN SANE. PARIS. Sept. 1!). The newspapers confirm Prince Se!feddin's arrival at Constantinople, where a committee of thirteen medical s[K*cialisU declared him sane.

AMUNDSEN INSU I .TED, BUT EQUAL TO OCCASION. (Received this day at B.JO a.i11.) LONDON. Sept. It). The ‘•Sunday ’ Express’’ Berlin correspondent states an ex-Major ot the Prussian Army called at (apt. Amundsen's hotel and when summoned up to the latter’s room he shouted: “'loti sent hack your German decorations in war time; this is an offence to Germany. Unless you immediately apologise, you will not be allowed to lecture in Germany." Amundsen calmly replied: "I have

a son. who is a Norwegian sailor. German submarines attacked merchant shipping and killed many Norwegian sailors. I would act similarly again against any power using .submarines aginst merchant shipping. - ’ A number of ex-niilitarv ollicers paraded outside tbe theatre, where Amundsen was billed to lecture, carrying placards of: “Boycott Amundsen--Germany's Enemy." Nobody seemed to heed, for Amundsen lectured to a full bouse.

11 I.NDENBU RG POPULAR. (Received this day at 8..’i0 a.m.) BERLIN. Sept-. 20. Enormous crowds vociferously acclaimed President [I iiulenbiirg when lie pompously toured the Ruhr areas. Tbe workers organised a torch-light-procession at- Duisburg, and tbe artillery fired a salute at Essen. CAUSE OF .IAP EIRE. TOKIO. Sept. 20. The carpenters who v.ere repairing tbe I’m linment Houses declare tbe lire .ins caused by tbe shorl-i ireuii ing of the electric wires. CHINESE SOLDIERS' ASSAULT. PEKIN. Sept. 20. (’hiuf.se soldiers assaulted and severely in ill red an Italian railway official it West Honan. The Italian Minister officially protested and asked for tbe nun isb incut ol tile soldiers reserving the right to n-k for an indemnity. DOCI'M ENTS SAVED. TOKIO. Sept. 20. The Upper House and Chamber were ; i mess of names when tbe firemen arrived. They succeeded in breaking their way into the throne room and saved the Imperial portraits. The firemen then concentrated their efforts on tbe bower House Chamber from which records and documents were secured before the llamcs were mastered by the fire lighters. Both buildings were temporary wooden structures, and they will be replaced by temporary buildings until the new permanent structure, which lias been under construction since 1021. is completed in 1028.