BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.. All! SKI!VICE. LONDON. Sept. 29. The Air Ministry’s report on the progress ol Civil aviation declares twen-ty-two states including the Dominions, signed the covenant lor 1 lie regulation of nerial navigal ion. Commenting on Braneker’s (light to India, the report says tile general impression was formed that a regular plane service from England to India is quite leasable I nun a technical Candpoint. Extraordinary favourable physical conditions are found over the route from England to Rangoon. HANGED IN CELL. LONDON. Sept. 20. A warder a! Bow Street discovered the hotly of .1 Him Hurley, aged thirtythree. mi internal ional criminal, hanging i:i a cell l,y a belt belonging to an overcoat. Hurley was apprehended early in Die evening on suspicion ol having forged cheques amounting to a thousand sterling. Hurley was known throughout Europe ns un expert torgei who served several sentences, lie was well educated and an expert penman. LONDON, September 2d. Hurley was regarded as the greatest forger since the notorious "dim the Penman.” Ilorlev "as the muster mind of the noted •' In ti rua t iona I rive" gang, which flooded Wembley with, spurious I rcasiiry Holes a collide ol weeks ago. Thov have swindled inaiiv passengers on moan liners. On the pretence of friendship, t In •> would obtain the autographs of waltav travellers. Their skill in Lracing tin signatures was -o perfect that many ol the victims did not detect t lie lorgcrv when shown Ihe disputed cheques at the hanks. It is estimated that the gang netted mole than Lot MM I annually. During the past week they had obtained 1’3.T(l from Barclay's Bank. A second cheque lor 27(19 led to suspicion. Hurley was then arrested in a Strand restaurant, when lie was having a meal with a girl Irieltd. A RUSSIAN MOVE. BRUSSELS. Sepi. Tile newspaper "Eloile Beige.’’ says Eadek arrived direct: from Moscow which had planned a revolution shortly to break out in Britain. All! I’OliCK DEATHS. LONDON. Sept, 2ii. The total deaths in the Royal Air Force owing to crashes in England ami North of Ireland during the past live weeks was raised to fourteen as the results of two air force aeroplanes colliding in mid-air near Royston. ( ambridgeshire and cradling. Plight Limit. Basil Carter and the pilot E'ergeaut McGrath living killed.

SYRIAN OPERATIONS. DAMASCUS. Sept. 2tb The garrison from Sueda will "c broiigh to Damascus as soon as possible. The Druses are tleeing in all directions. I pmera! Sarrail relieved a number ol Mussulman religious leaders, who allirmed their lidelity to l-iaiuo. SPA 11 LING ER TREATMENT. LONDON. Sept. 27. Si,- Alfred Moml at CarmaUieii. ad‘dressing a meeting in support of a fund of L’dO.OIMI for the purchase of fhe Kphalinger institute at Genova, said it. was criminal to hesitate "’hen millions a year v.crc spent in combating consumption. ENGLISH PRIORY SOLD. LONDON. Sept. 2-T. Owing to the failure of all appeals for it' preservation it l- announced that Warwick Priory lias been sold at a “highly satisfactory pm o” to an American. It will Im taken, down, stone by stone, and will he shipped and re-creeled in the failed States. The Priory includes sixteenth century Georgian wings. FRENCH PL's I’A NX F FLIERS. PARIS. September 2d. The availors Taraseoiu and I'avreau

started in an attempt to break Droithin Landry's long distance record lliglit. They crashed at Preux. both being slightly injured. The machine, which was specially built iur their proposed (light from Paris to New York was wrecked. The accident occurred at 3.3!) o’clock in the morning during a storm, which necessitated a forced landing Flames hurst out as the machine grounded. The watch at F.lamps saw the machine pass thirteen times, equivalent to IfiijO kilometres. DE PIN EDO. TDK H). September 2(5. Marches.' I)e Piiicdo. the Italian air man. has arrived tit Kishimotn. FRENCH DEBT NEGOTIATION'S. AN UNEXPECTED ( I.AIM. [Reuter Telegrams.] (Received this (lay at 9.30 a..n.) PARIS, Sept. 27. “1.,. Journal's’ Washington correspondent say•> that M. C.aillaux >m> telegraphically i i 111 ) r 111 i'll M. Paineve ol the state of the debt negotiations, and the concessions he reckoned on making. M. t'aillatix stated the American ton ii t ei' proposals claimed the maximum annuities ol I MD.t)()(),(M X)< D>l. as compared with the SO.COO.illllldoi. contemplated by M . C ailla ux. The “Matin's” Washington correspondent says the Americans presented a totally unexpected claim lor toe payment of interest on 2-l-Y.000.000i101.. which the United States Treasury advanced to the Bank of Frame, whir! demanded that it should not he regarded a< a political loan, hut a commercial loan similar to the Bank of England's credit to 1 lie Bank of France. FATAL AIR CRASHES. | " Sydney Sun ” (’nblcs.] (Received this day at 9.30 a.in.) LONDON. Sept. 27. Despatches front the “Sim’s” aeronautical correspondent states that H pilots had been killed in 192.7. 9 during the past fortnight, which i" a heavy toll. The inevitable crashes from structural defects, fortunately, have Hooii rare owing to the excellence of British workmanship, hut collisions in mid-air are almost unavoidable so long as the present blind area is retained. The pilot's view is considerably interfered with by the wings and forepart of the machine, and until the pil'd cabinet is placed right forward in the nose of the fuselage, giving an uninterrupted view, such disasters will retina

An Air Ministry official, giving evidence at the inquest on the pilot killed in the collision, announced that it had been decided to equip all air force aeroplanes with parachutes.

WAR LESSON* FORGOTTEN. t.OXT'ON. Sept. -~- Tlu* “Sunday Pictorial" assorts that the war lessons have been forgotten at the manoeuvres. The Empires' derisions are alwavs adverse to tanks and aeroplanes, showing the official mind refuses to recognise the potency of the canines which smashed the Germans, p referring the traditions of the Balaclava charge to the massed tank attaeks on the Hindcnburg line. Although the ralarv to-dav have, got to teach their horses to gallop in gas masks the tanks have boon deposed from the position of the premier weapon and are now merely an ad.ipnct to the infantry