BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

SWISS ENGINEER’S PROPOSAL LONDON, Sept. 23.

A Swiss engineer, AI. Jules Jaeger, has proposed that the European Chambers of Commerce should build two parallel jetties, costing £7.1,000,000 from Calais to Deal. ea:h carrying a double rail-track, and also motor ways, to enable commerce to lie interchanged at a lower capital cost than that of a Channel tunnel, whereto, the British Committee of Imperial Defence have raised objection. The jetties could ho easily defined in war time, or, as a last resort destroyed. Broad open space near the coast could be bridged by gigantic viaducts to admit- uf tho passage of the largest- steamers using the channel, while a smooth waterway between the jetties would enable canal barges to inter-communicate lietwcen London and Paris, thus contributing a considerable -’reduction to Britain s manufacturing costs.

COAL TRADE LONDON,

Sept. 22

The “Times” says:—There is no market for British coal in Russia. This is the gist of a report- forwarded + o the Department of Overseas Trade by a member of a British Afission at Moscow. This makes dismal reading to those cherishing the illusion that a great potential market existed. Report- -how tho Soviets have had the greatest difficulty in selling their own products even at loss which they have been ih ing expressly to undercut British i oil! on tho overseas markets.

ARMY MANOEUVRES. LONDON Sept. 22

The British Army Alanoeuvres tow proceeding are designed to demonstrate new uses of cavalry and to test new forty-mile-nn-hour tanks and also to discover the possibilities of air force co-operation with the squadrons. Sir Philip Chetwode commands an army of thirty thousand, three infantry divisions, a cavalry brigade, a battalion of fast tanks and three air

squadrons. Sir Alexander Godley commands a 1 army of twelve thousand, two cavalry brigades an infantry division a territorial infantry brigade, a battalion of tanks, a company of armoured oars, and an air force squadron. The operations seemingly are intended to test- the powers of General God ley's cavalry and tanks against infantry with aircratt co-operation.

The manoeuvres will introduce now methods ot mechanical transport, and the latest experiments in the interception of wireless. It is the first time that the territorials have ltecn participating with the regulars in manoeuv-

WELSH TIN PROSPERITY. LONDON. Aug. 7

The Welsh tinplate trade is one of the few industries in the country in which the pre-war output is not only maintained, but also considerably increased. The keenness of the workers and the absence of "ca’canny” methods have kept the industry alive and enabled manufacturers to retain their foreign markets. The practice of employers anil employed sitting down once a year to a round-table conference and lixing wage rates lor the twelve months does away with strikes and lock-outs.

IMPERIAL ADVISORY BOARD. LONDON. Sept. 22,

A meeting of the English Rugby Union CommiOee in London decided to deal at some future meeting with the N.Z. Union’s letter regretting the formal ion id the proposed Imperial Advisory Hoard has been relinquished in favour of triennial conferences.

POLISH SENSATION

WARSAW. Sept. 22.

Eighty convicts in gaol on the Saint Gross Mountain, in Southern Roland, V, here a number of Communists arn> srrviim king sentences, broke into the guardroom.’’ disarmed the guard, and -cii-d their rifles ait id ammunitionThey were unable to escape, owing to the vigilance of other guard detachments. Police arrived, and a desperate struggle followed. Six prisoners and two police were killed, and twenty prisoners and tour police note wounded before order was restored.