BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.}

FRENCH STRIKE ORDERED. (Received this day at 9.15 a.m.) PARIS, October 12.

The “ 11umanilc,” the Communist organ, lias published an order lor a general strike throughout I'ranee on I IHi October as a protest against the wars in Morocco and Syria and the new taxes. Opinion i- generally expressed the strike will tail like the transport strike. Ihe Parisian taxidrivers alone decided to pari icipa to. Ihe Government has taken all measures to suppress attempts to interior*' with freedom to work.

MONSTER AIR SHED. LONDON. October If (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.)

I'li" Air Ministry lot.- plan-d a coiit leu t: for a n airship slu'd a i K a radii which will probably be Hie largest in tb*' world, with Armstrong Constructing Company.

A KING’S SON’S KATE. LONDON. October 11. The " Sunday Express " Belgrade correspondent states Milan Kristieh. son of the late King .Milan of Hervia. died in an Hungarian workhouse destitute anil his body is unclaimed. Ills mother was a Greek beauty. The father died leaving no provision for the son, who became successively a staid*' hoy. trainer, waiter and concert singer, sleeping ear conductor, novelist and wanderer. LORD MAYOR’S SHOW. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, October 11. It is announced at the Lord .Mayor's Show on November !lth there "ill he :■ fixture of the Dominions’ tableaux t* demonstrate Empire resources and pos -ihililies. lev display will form ; striking culmiiiation to Wembley Exhibition from which il is hoped to see lire an appreciation of the exhibits. .MR PRAM LEY’S DEATH. LONDON, October 11. Mr Bromley felt unwell oil arriva' at Amsterdam and he nearly tainted •cveral limes, hut insisted on carrying on. His colleagues looked ini** hibedroom ai mid-night and -aw Brain ley •■'* , * , ;iiog. Tliev discovered he was dead from heart failure. Newspapers ami Labour leaders pin a tribute, pointing out he was mie *> the soundest el Labourites ami r

strong opponent *u umdliciu! strikes which he described as a menace t trade unionism, threatening nt * olio*' five bargaining. ATTACK ON RE SSI AN. LONDON. October 11. The "Times'’ Riga correspondent states a sensation was created in Mos cow by an attack on T. ( . 11 itlicriiis. Secretary Eilgeni ran while travel ling on a train from Berlin to Moscow. Sixty miles from Moscow armed men penetrated the compartment searched and removed monev ami 'papers, including ’Third International* documents. Special guards patrolling the train did not notice the intruders, who escaped.

alleged plot. LENINGRAD, October 11. 'The press gives prominence t* * tb London report that London police discovered a Communist plot I* > assa-Qti-ntf King George. TRANSPORT STRIKE A FIASCO. PARIS. Oct. 18. The transport strike called hy the Communists proved a liasco. 'I lie number of striker- was insignificant, and the public in no maimer was iiaoiivciiicttccd. lu the alltTiionii the police searched the olliccs of the Communist organ lluuiamle." anil seized several thousand leaflets inciting the workers to participate in lli.e projected general strike.

mi; {iiambbki.ain satisfied. LOCARNO. Oil. in. Mr Chamberlain, on bis return Iroin his pleasure trip on the Lake in company with M. Briaud, Dr Stre-e mi and Herr Luther, said he was quite satisfied with the' results n| to-day’s conversations, which had carried the conference further towards an agreement. Much, however, still remained to he done before I lie conterenee e.included. A GERMAN SLOGAN. LONDON. October 1 1. Tile •■Times’’ Merlin correspondent says the German Nationalists cniitiniii to he preoccupied with war guilt. I lies declare it overshadows everything else, even the French guarantee ol Germany’s entry into the League trom which Nationalist opposition seems to tie swerving, and now concentrating on war guilt and renewed efforts are being made to get it raised tit Locarno. The war guilt lie must he (plashed, ll i.s now a slogan and the impression is convoyed that it. there is satisfaction here, Anoiit might manage to swallow a compromise on other mat-