BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia &. N.Z. Cable Association ] THE BROOK RAND'S RECORD. LONDON. October 11. The Brooklimd’s records were nuidt by Parry Thomas, driving a Captain Dowry's car. WORLD'S NEW TONNAGE. LONDON. October IT T he depression in the shipping industry is clearly reflected in Lloyd's register of shipbuilding returns for the quarter ended .'filth September, showing 1,(1(19.00(1 tons were con -1 met ed in Great Britain and Ireland, a decrease of nvcr St,(Kill ton-, as compared with ,'iOt h June and about 159,000, as compared with twelve months ago, while work i- -Usoended on -1.000 tons, as compared with only .'17.000 lon-, on HOth September. 1921. The present totals are the lowest on record since December 1909 and S'»1.(I(H) below the average tonnage being built twelve months before the war.

The tonnage commenced during the quarter was 2(!ll,0(l(t tons, a- compared with l-gl,(;(;{) during the second quarter ol 1925, hut the tonnage launched during the quarter showed was 225.000 tons, a decrease of 72.000 tons as compared with tilt- previous quarter. The total world tonnage being constructed is 2,20(1.000. a decrease of 102,000 tons, as compared with the previous quarter and. 1.2,*19.000 tons as compared with the highest pre-war record.

The remarkable development t motor tonnage is shown by the fat that the tonnage of vessels now built' ing in the world to he lilted with intci mil combustion engines was 1.085.00 tons, while the tonnage of steam ves sols constructing was 1.090.000.

OBITUARY. LONDON. Oct. II (ihit nary— -Professor Lefrov.

RAID ON COMhM EXISTS. LONDON. Oet. II

Scotland Yard raided the London headquarters of the Community Party and arrested Dikpen (Secretary). John Campbell (editor of Workers' Weekly). Harry Pnliit and three other officials. They will he charged with i no-pi raw to incite milt ill\ ami -••Hit inn

SOLDIER KILLS PRIEST. ROME, October 15. Father Paul deny, the distinguished Professor of Philosophy, was killed with a bayonet by a soldier while walking in the street. The soldier admitted he had no grudge against Father (!eny. hut was hitter towards all priests been use one wrongly fold lib mother that her soil had been killed ill the war. whereupon she committed suicide. EUGENE SAN DOW. LONDON. Oeloher I I. (tliai tury.—Sa ndow. TIC A SALKS. DELHI, Oeloher IT At the Calcutta tea sales there was a belter selection and improved quality with a good demand tor all the better qualities. .Medium broken and tannings advanced one to It annas, common pekoe souchong, halt to one anna, and dusts similarly improved. RUS'O-GIvR.MAN TREATY. LONDON. October 11.

The ‘Times" Berlin correspondent says the Soviet’s enthusiasm over the signing of the R ii-.-ia-Germa n trade treaty find- little echo ill Oeriiian.v, where it is regarded as a one-sided document, which the Government approved on the eve of the Locarno Conference as proof that Germany did not intend to injure Soviet-German relations. Xofiody'pretends it is not much more favourable to Russia than fo Germany and so far as the term- unknown it is receive,l unfi a -dung ol the shoulder.-. It was rumple!ed hastily lor political purposes and its best provision is considered to he that ol limiting its duration to two years, hut it in no wav bridges the enormous gull separating the economic systems of the two coil Ulrica. U.S.A. SECRETARY of war. (Received this day at 9.0 a.mA WASHINGTON. Oct. II Dwight Davis, the donor of the Davis Cup. has been elected Secretary of War.