BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[ Reuter Telegrams.]

MATTEOTTI MURDER

bomb, Get. ». It i- understood that the Public Prosecution's re port for the Assize Court on the murder of Deputy Matteotti last vear. recommends that three of the accused receive the benefit of the ro-c-lit aniucstv. and he acquitted of the charge ol kidnapping and complicity m the murder, inasmuch as the crime was not premeditated, while five others I,H indicted for wilful murder without premeditation. The latter probably w il! plead they killed Matteotti in selfdefence. owing to his liiriotis attacks when endeavouring to escape. A SHIP mSAPPKAPS. C'APKTOW’N. October <l. Ti..- search for the Margarita has Ih'cm m!)miuluikml. Tin* is loiktimlly ONprossoil tliMt she c;ipsizoil nwinji to her chitling delin' Tl-ursday's violent storm. li is understood there were thirtylive Greeks and one Japanese aboard. BRITAIN'S FAST SKA PLANKS. NKW YORK, October 10. A liriti'h “mystery shift " brought to the I'nited States by the Po\al Aero f lull's team, and entered for the 1 -(- 1- Seanlane. Trophy, races at Baltimore on October 2-'lrd. She is ro-

ven led a' a super-marine Napier st.l. of a new design, embodying features entirely new in airplanes. Captain Herbert Broad, a British war - Ace." has announced that the plane i- mu* whose speed of 22' miles per In,nr. during the recent trials in England. is accredited as a new world's record for seaplanes by the International Aeronautic Federation. The mystery plane which Britain has entered is one which is the smallest seaplane ill the world for its power, and lias been built with the greatest secrecy. Captain Broad said it will travel between two and three hundred miles per hour. BBrnsrr MINERS. LONDON. Oct. 9. The Miners' Delegate Conference decided to participate in the Royal Commission on coal, subject- to further efforts hv the Executive to remove the men's grievances in regard to any ro(I net ii in in the basic wages, and in rejjard to the refusal of the unemployment benefit to the men. A KB EX Cll STRIKE. RAIDS. Od- 9. Tin- Communists’ long-expected 24 hours strike, principally as a protest against the war in Morocco, is duo 01, Hie 12th. October, accord ing to an older issued from Die Party's headquarters. A second order calls on the Coinuion Ist members of the Bans.tianspnrt services lo strike to-day. and to remain out until their wage demands are granted. PRICK OF BBKAD. LONDON. Out. 9. The London Master Bakers' Society have (|e-iiled to reduce the price of bread to 9d per quartern loaf, on Monday. " The Food Council has recommended Hie Ministry to invite the bakers selling the quartern loaf at nineponce to submit their names, which will ho ofli--1 daily circulated lor the benefit of housewives. The Council added : —“ln our opinion, two of the London Bakers' Wirinlions had not justification Igp* maintain the present higher price till Hour falls to 41s per sack." MOD KB N TKNDKNCIKS. LONDON. Oct. 9. Much discussed waywardness of the modei'n girl was approached from a new angle by Miss Lilian paitlilul, formerlv the Principal of Cheltenham l adies' College. 11l an address before Die ( linreli <'oogress. She declares * that parents did not know their child--1-,.11. lieenuse they themselves were too nineh involved in outside pleasure. “Elders must cultivate a better sense of proportion/' she said, “and must cease to be bound by old-fashioned ideas. It is irritating to. young people to have smoking regarded as a crime ol- ill-ess as vulgar. \Yo must not forget that dress in every age has been ridiculous. The Victorian crinoline tight waists, and swishing skirts were no better than tin* short frocks of the present day. Paint and powder, however much l lu-y may he deplored are not new. They were the general rule in by-gone days. If we appeal to the 1..--t qualities in (lie modern girl in a new way she will respond.” An outspoken address on modern tendencies was given hv Canon Woods. He summarized the present day evils as being typified by the idle rich, who know no discipline; the workmen who repudiate auilientic agreements, novelists and film producers who do not ki ow when to stop, the football crowds who boo the referee, the pii knickers who defile the countryside with tlieir litter; and the parents who do' not control tli.-ir children. It "as dc quieting in observe the tremendous amount of stupidity and muddlc-heail-e-11 less there was among the people. "Though the ape and tiger within us.” In- said, “man have died there is plenty of .'. ideiiecs Hint the donkey still survives.” \ BOBBED HAIR LAWSEIT PARIS. Oct. 9. A novel test case is being heard ill Dip 11. where the father of a girl whose hair wa - bobbed is suing the burlier on the ground that, as the girl is a minor, her hair belonged to Iter father, and -hould not have been removed without his permission. The flair*l iv-set's i 11 i 1 >ll i- defending the ease. TRADES OONUHESs SECRETARY'S DEATH. (Received this dnv at 8 a.m.) A.M ST ED A.M . Oct. 12. Mr Ere. l flrnmlev. Secretary of the ( 'iUiicil of Trades Cni.ni Congress, died suddenly in Ills sleep, lie represented the Trades Enion Congress at a conference of the 1 iiicrna I ional federation "I Trade Enions and the Labour Socialist International which, yesterday, unanimously carried his proposal to conduct 1 rum TMh of November to the middle of Dei-ember special propaganda lor I lie general ratification of the Washington eight hour day (-.invent ion. The Conp-ri-Tice appointed a joint committee to examine the migration problems, especially in relation to unemployment . The Conference carried a resolution protesting against the criminal prac- 1 t ices of Die Fascist i in Italy, denouncing the Italian Government's restriction of trade union rights solely to Fasoisi- labour organisations and declaring that such practices placed Italy outside the pale of civilised nations. A DR EAT BOER'S CENTENARY. CAPETOWN. Oct. 12. All panels are devoting much space to-day to the < elehration ol the centenary of the birth of Paul Kruger. Generous tributes to the Boer statesman by the whole English press are iKitevoi ! by. TR ON FALLS INTO RIVER. ROME. Oct. 12. An engine and .-each of a passenger train on the Camnii/.arn-Roggio and Calabria railway fell into the river owing to a bridge collapsing during a flood. Fifteen are ‘missing and teti injured.