BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

(Australia A X.Z. Cable Association.]

DAMASCUS MEXACED. PARIS. Get. 12

Tim Druses have entered the southern quarters of the city of Damns ttThe position Here i- critical.

ON WARE STREET. NEW VDEK. October. ID. Wall Street weathered another exciting stock exchange markci. last week’) | Icier being only slightly abated. The trading wa~ demoralised at noon 10-1 1 day. when a deluge of sidling sent the pivotal issues, ineluding motors, tottering. hut powerful interests caused a rally in support ol substantial railroad -took-. The total ol sale., was 2.1!7:t,.i(l ) ■hares, a record lor Momhiv trading. .MANDATES' COMMISSION. O PIN EVA. Oei. 2(1. A session of the Permanent M.mI dates Commission of the League nf ! Nations opened with a public sitting', j Marquis Thcodoli. chairman. in a • speech reviewing flic work since last session, again called attention to the I great delay in the receipt of some re- ; ports from mandatory powers. 1 | DE PINEDO’S FRIGHT. ' PEKIN. Get. 20. | I'e I’incdu has arrived from Jloitg , Kong. j MR RI.OVI) GEORGE. ! LONDON, October 20. | Mr l.loyd George, speaking at a free j church demonstration in the City i Temple, rejoiced at t lie success of the' l.oearno ( onl’oroiieo. which marked aj great step forward. , ‘‘Our paramount: duty was to estate , lish lienee. We took risks in time of j war, why not, then, in G'tid’s name take j risks for peace in the Free Church. .Men j in America would help to bring Anicr-! lea into the League of Nations. 1 1. I would make the League triumphant J as an itisi rmviit, lor world-wide peace. 1 [ ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. (Received this day at 9..‘10 a.tnA LONDON. Oct. 20. In ■-•iiincct ion with his forthcoming Antarctic expedition. Captain Wilkins has received generous support from \\ . S. Roliin-on and 11. R. Howard .■smith, and is anxiously awaiting available funds from the Geographical Society at Adelaide to enable him to complete the purchase of Amundson's aero"lane. No. 25 .on Thursday, otherwise, lie will he forced to try later to liny I a new machine, thus entailing an addi- ’ lional cost ol at. least live thousand.

i LINER BERN ED. j NEW YORK. Del. 20. The New Vorlc “World" newspaper -ays: According to ill- stories of thirty survive is. the negro crew of the I Clyde liner Comanche. w hich was burned off the coast of Florida on Saturday night, stamped'd madly before the llumcs. They pulled the passengers out of the life boats, and precipitated men and women into tho I sea. Tho charge is made that, the negro seamen were drunk when I lie fire Started, and that they could not he •mil rolled hv the eflieer"..

FRENCH FINANCIAL ( RISIS. LONDON, (let. 20. The "Evening Standard ' says: “While Paris is cheering Mr ('huml*erlaiu. M. ISriand and the new Security Pact, the French linaueial crisis has taken a frr-Jt tern. A. - the resell ot the prop: sed capital levy. French exchange mi rea-lied l 10. Id. the low :-t rale -lino Hie temporary collapse in .March. 1021. which led to AT. Poincare's dow nl’nll. .MO'S EK‘ Cl! All T IDE. (Received this day at 0.00 a.mA BERLIN. October 20. Professor Grime, the Egyptologist, claims that lie lies dcipheicd part of one "I Iho i.iMrl ,|| .'"H-Iril by Sir Flinders Pel.ric in I'.'O.'i on .Mount Sinai. He I- convinced it is inscribed on the stone tablet set up by Moses himself as a record of his gratitude to Pharaoh's daughter lor his rescue from the Nile. Following certain clues Professor Grime and other prolessors gradually worked nut the entire alphabet of twenty-two letters, wherefrom it appeared language of the inscriptions was almost identical with Biblical Hebrew. Prolessor Crime is emphatic that thU is genuinely the litst writing in sentences, dating hack EoO’d years before Chrisi.

A RELIC OF TRAFALGAR. LONDON, October go. Karl Beatty is appealing to the nation to subscribe twenty-live thousand | to save tile only surviving seventy-tour j gunner Implacable, captured I rum t lit* j French at Trafalgar from being brok- j ell lip. I ( IIINKSK TMi.MOir.. I PEKIN, October go. j The situation is rapidly developing, j Wnpoifii is arriving at Hankow to-day, , where he intends to assume the Com- i inander-in-Cliii'lsliip ol the (eutralj Provinces Alliance, including Kaiugsu, j Chekiang. Anhuilean. Aidmikiangsi. i Hupei, and Tukictt and the veteran | statesman Tangslumy i. It is proposed • to establish an independent administration at Hankow and restore’ the socalled Constitutional Parliament, which thi* Tunnchijni child executive abandoned. The Wtipeilti movement is against the Pekin and .Mukden Governments. Fengtien. eoininaudant ol 'langyu-j ting, yesterday crossed the Nangtzei .Manking. with a number ol .Mukden J troops, whereupon the fourth and’ tenth Kiangsu divisions, which joined \ ('hntigtsolin when Chiliiseiliyimu wn« •; defeated An 1921.' revolted. attacked; and disarmed the eight .Mukden divi- j sion and sent Hie disarmed troops’ across the Kiaun. -The Keiigt ionites | were taken by surprise and oflerod j feeble resistance. 'the casualties were: i lew. ’ Order was quickly restored and no j damage done to loreign interests. The Fongtioners arc retreating’, northwards. j General Fetigytihsiang. acting m con-1 junction with Wupcifu. is sending j Chines troops to cut oil the hengtieu-j ers. Several Chinese warships which are sailing for 'inngtse are believed t' l support the Central Provinces. SOCIALIST PARER ADVOCATES MFRDKR. LONDON, October 20. The ” Daily Mail ” Berlin correspondent says the "Nolkiseho Beobachter. the National Socialist organ, directly incites the murder of Strcsomann. It urges a bitter fight against the agreement of Locarno and declares the Frenchman who is signing such a pact on behalf of France would be slaughtered like a dog when he returned to Paris. The police are protecting j •Strosemnnn and Luther. i MOROCCO OPERATIONS. MADRID. Oct. 20. French forces commanded by General Boichut, who is holding positions at Soiiktzclataeloff and Sidinlil>ourkoha. ) have fallen hack on Souksehtaniamar in accordance with instructions. Large enemy bodies vigorously attacked the French troops whose withdrawal was covered hy the advance of a Fra neoSpanish column, and under Colonel Dolloy. The abandoned positions hare been dismantled and all the material removed,