BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[ Reuter Telegrams.] MR ENITT’S A DVENTI'RES. LONDON, October 11. Mr 1 tiitt gave details nt his adventures to a letter to his wife. He said: ■■ The engine had not worked after our departure. '1 here was a fair wind to near Einisterre and then a deal calm wherein we drifted around tho line of Biscay. We had to stay at sea for ‘JO days wherein a chapter of accidents occurred. We lost the .small boat and the mainsail came down. The halyard broke during a two days' gale and we had to lower the sails and pump out the yawl every two hours. | After the gale the compass tailed and i w gad to steer by the sun and trust j to Providence at night, hocause there j was no moon. We obtained food front j a Etvnvh trawler, also the steamer Ikadhor. We made several attempts ro make Einisterre and thought wo had sighted a good harbour tit Caminha, - hut run on a sand hank.” lII.' Klf Ft: I-! It COMMEMORATION. CAPETOWN. October H. I: is estimated that fifteen to twenty thousand were present at the unveiling of the Kruger Statue at Pretoria by the Premier. including their Excellencies. mouthers of the Cabinet and Hie ex-< aliiuet Ministers. General llert/.iig said that President Kruger eettset! to he merely a Transvaal hero -he wax now South Africa’s popular hero. General Smuts said that Kruger was the oerxonilieation ol everything ttohle and heroic in aspirations. The Yoortrekkers of South Africa had no consciousness of national inferiority owing to the fact that their forefathers counted no sacrifice too great for their right- and self respect and never knew when they were beaten. Mr Wolmaraiis. the only surviving ,—, member id the Executive Council of the Kruger regime, also spoke. 4 The Duke of At (done placed a wreath ' r ' on the stati'e on behalf his 11 is Majesty King George.

THE WAR OYER. LONDON, Oetolier P2. The '■ Daily Express ” special cones pendent at Tetuan quotes General Dc Rivera as declaring“ The war ir Morocco is over. Abdel Klim’s army N shattered and only one thousand followers remain. The white race is sate for the time being in North Africa. The defeat of Abdel Krim has proved a material set hack to the looming

eastern peril. It dealt another blow at Bolshevism. While Abdel Krim was digging himself in in the mountains with his tiny hand of loyalists we did not intend to advance further. Important submissions hv the tribesmen were occurring daily. The winter would do its own work among'tho iriltosmen still resisting. Spain and Franco had fought the white world’s battle against the creeping velluw and brown peril. If Abdel Klim had triumphed there would have been serious trouble in India. Fgvpt, and Syria " General De Rivers shortly returns to Sonin. lie is determined to lead a triumphant inarch through the Riff mountains in the spring.