BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Assoc iati'jn.]

TURKISH T> KMO N.ST RAT lON. CONSTANTINOPLE. Get. 7. The Army and Navy participated in rejoicings on the anniversary of the Allied evacuation. A crowd demonstrated Indore the British "Kmhnssny, shouting: “We demand Mosul.’’

SIGNIFICANCE OF 'DISPUTE. LONDON. Get. 7

The “Tillies’’ says British shippers are disappointed it 1 Mr Allan's statement. because, says the City Editor, it conveys the impression that the sign! fieanee of the dispute is not yet realised in high Australian quarters. Shippers do not regard* the trouble as a mere wage dispute, but involving the maintenance of British law. There never bus Ir-cii such determination among all the owners engaged in one trade to maintain their position in >pite of the heavy enG. This solidity would not- exist if the issue were simply one of wages. RUSSIA'S ATTITUDE. BERLIN. Get. (i. Tckiteriu denies ibal he i- intriguing for a military alliance between Russia. Germany and Poland. He characterises the reports as pure i nventionx. SOUDAN COTTON. LONDON, Ocfolter fi. Sir Geoffrey Archer states that the great Soudan cotton irrigation scheme is not vet nil fait accompli. The dam has been completed, and already eighty thousand acres are tinder cotton. The completion of the scheme will result in three million acres being available toi cotton-growing under a trieunal system. This will mean a crop of one million acres yearly. THE NEW ZEALAND LOAN. LONDON. Get. 8. It i- nulhoratively stated the projected New Zealand five millions loan for the purpose of Advances to Settlers is being llouted locally instead of in London. I’robabU New Zealand will float the Public Works loan in London in April or May. STABILISING THE ERAXC. | Reuter Telegrams.j (Received this day at 10.2-3 a.m.) PARIS, October S. In eoimeelitm with the recent full of the fra tie, the .Ministry of Pittance denounces as piirulv speculative the recent operations on the Paris and foreign bourses which resulted in the rise of several points in various currencies. The Ministry unmuinecs the Go- \ era men t will it e I hi: en-dit .nTutigcmeuts with Morgans for the put pose ol stabilising the franc.

TILL UNITES’ ADVENTURE. LISBON. October 7

The British Consul at Oporto lots been informed that the Alergatiiser is not regarded as a total loss. Alt- Unitt is endeavouring to seen re the Spanish authorities permission to remove the craft which was wrecked in Spanish waters, ll still unseaworthy Mr I nitt and his daughter will return to Flight lid.

TEA SALES. DELHI, October 8

At the Calcutta lea sales prices ruled one anna loiYer lor medium leal and brokens, and 1 .j annas lor common lea! while good teas were slightly dearer, at 12.*, to 17.1 annas, medium 9 to 13 common tannings broken orange, Pekoe 7j annas. R USSO-( lER A lAN AG R E EAI ENT. BERLIN. October 7. Hiudenhurg inlormcd lehitehcrin that the German Ambassador at -Moscow had been authorised to sign a Russian-German commercial agreement .