BRITISH S FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1925, Page 3

BRITISH S FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.] ATTACK ON COMMUNISTS LONDON. Oet. I. Lord Headley who married Mrs Bayncii addressing the Royal Society ol Saint George at the Mansion House made a scathing attack upon the Columnists. I|i> said: "Englishmen are too prone to allow a small band of bloodstained scallywags to hold up the country. Englishmen are content to lie down in the gutter while a lot of unwashed, unholy people wash their boots upon our whiskers. Only when an eye is kicked out does John Bull wake up and do the right thing. We should destroy the Communists, as Saint George killed the dragon.

A. TITLE!) EOBGEK. LONDON, Oet. 1. Viscount Turrington was arrested at Voiding, in Keiil. on a charge of offering a worthless cheque to a Nottingham Bank. He married a Gaiety aittress. but was divorced in 11)21. His bankruptcy in l!)R) included a debt of ten thousand pounds to his first wife. Viscount Torrington was released on bail until October 10. A- hi.- offence is a misdemeanour be will be treated its a eonimencr, trial by the Beers before the Lords being reserved for felony. AVI ATI ON ADVOCATE. LONDON. Oei. L for Si'l’t ■■ D Braucker, forecasts that, at no distant future date, 1 air transport will be as remunerative as .shipping and railways are now. Hr admitted that the British air progress bad been disappointing. Its slowness in development was discouraging, and it was oniitantly demanding financial assistance. Nevertheless, ii would assuredly her,,me the principal means of long di-tamo ooinmiinieations throughout (lie world. Aviation would soon outstrip thn older forms ol transport, and British aviation should keep n place in the forefront of aviaiiou. because she depended on i ammuiiieat ionfur her existence to a greater degree j than any others. Unless she maintain- j ed them in/ the highest state it rHie- ! ienev. and rapidity made passible by I scientific aircraft the Empire would | assuredly melt into the mists nl the , joist.

TOO MUCH COLD. LONDON. October 1. The city editor of tile “ Tillies." says: "The reduction ui the bank rate from It per cent to I per cent is due to an anomalous monetary situation following on the restoration of the gold slumlord in April. Cold llowed into the ciHinti'v instead ol out. This had been feared, but the inflow was not on account of an improved trade position, but because the monies deposited could again be withdrawn in gold, which induced foreigners to renew their sterling balances. The How continued to such an extent that the Bank of England then reduced the rate to II per cent in elder to watch the cllect on loreign balances. These were considerably withdrawn, but the monetary rise nevertheless lias continued. The bank, therefore, has now decided to try an experiment with a tour tier cent rate, but the real trouble is the loreign loan embargo, which has been maintained over long, thereby defeating the working of the gold standard. It this embargo tun! not existed, there would probably have been no need for a reduction of the rate.” an interesting analysis. LONDON, October I. Sir Arthur Keith. lecturing at King's College, made all interesting analvsis of the character ot the stud-i t .|it habit, lie expressed the opinion, thill the energy in an ounce ot sugar, would bo enough to produce any of, Shakespeare’s plays if it found its way • to the brain of an equally git ted poet, j The ordinary man's appetite was not I that, of the brain worker, but that oi j the muscle-user. Sooner or later, the stomach ol the prolessional student • had to pay the price, as Carlyle, liar- | win, Huxley and Spencer did, who ueiei all sufferers from the student disease. The more that student- give their j stomachs, the higher the price they j have to pay. The majority ol eminent , scholars with no scholarly lineage come j from tin* Highland glens, Welsh hills. ; and English villages. I here were vast j virgin fields of untapped talent. Tt j was possible to damage the body by I over study, but not to damage thuj brain. No man ever used hi- brain up to its full capacity.

RUSSIA AND GERMANY. RERUN. October 1. M. C'liieherin (Soviet Foreign Minister) is conferring with Dr Luther and Dr Strcseman, and negotiating with the German bankers with the object of securing credits of one hundred million marks for the purchase oi agricultural machinery in Germany. It is announced that Ru-so-Germai pourparlers have so far advanced that the conclusion of a treaty is expecte< before Dr Luther and Dr SI resemiu go to the Locarno Conference to-luor

row. Political circles surmise tlmt MOhicherin’s activities arc in no manner linconncctcil with the discussions at Locarno, and its possible t?fleet on the Rapallo treaty. The Cernum Nationalists who ordin arily opposed everythin': ISolshevistic are at present extolling the advantages of a Oerman-Russian raproachmenl. sLArmrra? in ivkssarahia. LONDON. October Mr Oeoree Renwiek "Daily Chronicle” correspondent, alleges gruesome | judicial crimes are being perpetrate! by Roumanians in Bessarabia. Ih" store is vouched tor by stlch men a Pro lessor Albert Kinstein and Hour Darbusser author of " Le I'eu. year ago a number of Roumanian Gendarmes murdered a Bessarabian peasant because thev relused to let bin have trends for nothing. The neigh- ]

bullring peasants were aroused, but the authorities, instead of punishing the criminals, treated the peasants as criminals. and as punishment destroyed six villages by artillery fire. They als" burned the town of Tataihuiiar. "hei. two hundred peasants wore, massacred and 87 who sought refuge in a church were hauled out. tortured and execii ted. It was officially stated that two thousand rebels were killed while the so-called revolt was being suppressed The bodies of 270 prisoners who were executed in cold blood \\eic displ.tsid publicly as a warning to the peasants. There are 170 men, women and children still confined in prison undei the hu.l e.st circumstances in Kishinef. anil tin > 1 are now threatened with court-mart mi J without any defence. j Professor Einstein and others have signed a strong protest to the Roumanian Government. THE REDS AND THE ARM! . (P«coivod this day at S a.m.' LONDON. Oct. 2. Tim Attorney-General states that during the recent army manoeuvres there were scattered over the area of operations papers inciting the troop.- to mutiny and disolxulicnce. The Goieinme.it is fullv alive to the situation. I and if necessary will ask Parliament for further powers to suppress sedition. FRENCH DEBTS. WASHINGTON. Oct. 1. A temporary arrangement covering a period of live years was reached at to-dav’s French Dcbi Conference. Ibe • French delegates sail for New York on , Friday with an American proposal 1 wihch’will enable them to continue the v discussions for a permanent settlement at any time with the period. ? The agreement provides for n initial payments of forty million dollar- which will lie considered as full current interest on the total debt,