BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

i [Australia A X.X. Cable Association,] WAR EXPERT Tl Ii.WS PACIFIST. LONDON. Oct. 4. Max Hauer, the artillery export, on the Dorman General Stall' and known as the father of the Bit; Berthas, lias deserted war in an industrial position in the Argentine. Ife has become a I’acifist hoonu.se there will not h<> enough wars in the future. The Atlantic will he traversed in ton In fifteen hours hy aeroplanes, and that "ill end wars, because wlien aerial fleets can attack the capitals and the Parliaments that start wars, the warmakor.s will hesitate to risk their own skins. frkxch railway accident. PARIS. Oct. 4. The 20th. serious accident on the Freneh railways this year oeeiirred yesterday and resulted in two deaths. A goods train was being sh tin ted near Strassbourg when it came into collini<*n with the \Pari,s-Strnssbourg express, a portion of which overturned. The operators of the Roods train forRot the new winter time was in force; otherwise they would have cleared the line. The driver was arrested. COMMUNIST CRITICISM.

LONDON. Oct. 4. The Communist Party Executive ill a statement concernin'; the Labour Conference, says that it was not a defeat for the Communists, hut a. blow to the workiiiß classes. It declares that purely Liberal resolutions were adopted, ft declares there was a repudiation of the right MRninst Imperialism of the Dawes Plan, which was dcßradiiiß to their fellow workers abroad, thereby strikng at British conditions. and that there was a failure to face the capitalist attack on wages, which was intended to please the capitalists. It says that the recent Trade Union Congress friglitetied the capitalists hut the decisions at the Liverpool Conference had reassured them. MR MACDONALD’S WARNING. London, om. s. Mr Ramsay MacDonald, in a letter to the Press, protests against the action of Sir It', Joynson-FI inks (.Home Minister) in “blessing n private irresponsible attempt’' to maintain certain public services in the event of a paralysing trade dispute, lie says: “Labour is too experienced to place reliance on declarations of innocent purpose. The despair of getting redress or justice by constitutional means lias been increased by the publicalion of Sir W. Joynson Mick’s recent letter, which "ill he considered in hundreds of places as an encouragement hy the Government, of pernicious private organisations formed to create disturbance and to foment revolut binary passion. It is useless to light revolution at Liverpool if it is being bred at Whitehall.”

EX-SERVICE MEN. LONDON. Oct. I. After visiting the Australian ant

Canadian pavilions at Wembley, the ox-servico men adopted a resolution that part of the unproductive do! should he used to establish the unemployed in the Dominions, suggesting that money he devoted to their maintenance in the Dominions, while they were establishing themselves on a selfsupporting basis. The resolution added: “This will remove the disabilities operating against many wishing to take advantage of (he great opportunities in Australia and Canada, and relieve the British taxpayer and set the wheels of economic recovery in motion throughout, the Empire. ’’ successful raids exhibition. RAIDS. Dee. .I. An exhibition of decorative art here was an immense success. Fourteen million passed through the turnstiles. The gate receipts were seven million francs. The exhibitors appeal for tlif exhibtinn to he kept open until Nov. 11th.

CKIOIAX STItIKK IaiKAKKSS. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, October 0. German engineers, assisted by 1 lit crew of the North German Lloyd steamer Arabic, during the morniu;. began the unloading at Limerick, o the cargo and material fur the Shan non Power scheme. A crowd of loon dockers attacked them. One Germat received a black eye. A policemai was assaulted but not seriously. Th vessel is now discharging under llv protection of civic guards. TOR REDDER DISASTER. HELSINGFORS, October 5. The Finnish torpedoer S.R., rai aground and capsized during a violcn storm in manoeuvres in l lie {-nil i. Ilollinia. It is understood the whol. crew of three officers and fifty tnei were drowned. A LOST YACHT. (Received this day at 10.1) a.in.) LISBON, October 5.

It appeal’s I’nitt tried to enter tin small port of Caminha to replenish hi water supplies, without a pilot, wit the result that he ran on a sandbank The sea immediately filled the Met gniiser which sank. The wreck wa seen by local fishermen who were tin able to approach owing to the wenthei l.ilelines were Hung to the yacht. Tin Knitts were rescued. Flint suffered > minor injury, but his daughter was no hurt. The vaeht was totally lost.

PAINTED AND POWDERED YOUTHS. LONDON. October

The "Sketch” says that uowhei else in Britain, except in London an Oxford, can there lie so many soft, tie rouged youths as are at Cambridge A wave of elfeniioaev has swept me the university undergraduates, wit; their puwdeied cheeks, painted lipbistre laden eyelids, and who cluster at the street corners, taking their cm Irom decadent playwrights, imagining they will be thought clever if they up worn,an and eschew games and health,\ pursuits. Citizens are manifesting hatred and scorn for these girl-nicn. and declare that in the old days they would have been ducked in a river. AERIAL PROGRESS. LONDON. October 5. The " Daily Mail ” states a Spanish engineer has invented a flying machine embodying a new principle ol aerodynamics. combining the features ol helioopter and ornithoptw. The machine will be demonstrated before the Air Ministry experts. The most striking feature is a moveable column rising from the hull. The column is equipped with four spinning vanes which begin to rotate as the machine taxies along the ground and these will lift the craft almost vertically, providing parachutelike sustaining power. MURDERER. DIES. ROME, October 5.

Beeciolino. the murder of Luporini, died from injuries, also the man Console, who was seriously hurt in the fracas. Complete order and tranquility now prevail as a result of the police measures.