BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuter Telegrams.]

LOAN FMBARGO TO UK LIFTED. LONDON, October 27. The lion. L. ('. M. S. Amcry assured the Agents-Goneral the loan embargo would he lifted very shortly. LORD JKLLICOK. LONDON. October 27. Lord Jellicoc and General Allcnbv were (he guests of the Karl of liarmud iy at a shooting party at Sandonlisiit, near Stafford. Mach laid a laurel wreath on the village war memorial. Lord Jellicoc in a speech said lie recently had been trying lo do his duty in a distant portion o| the British Empire which wa - a- patriotic and as loyal as any other part and the people [Hided themselves on being the desccndeiits of Britons. No portion ol the British race responded more quickly to the call to defend the Empire in the late war than the New Zealanders.

IRISH JOI'RXA LIST’S DEATH. LONDON. October 27. Air Darrell Figgis, the well-known Irish journalist, and a member of ticDai I Eireami. was found dead in his room at Bloomsburv.

CYCLONE DEVASTATION. KARACHI, October 27

Several buildings and mud huts were swept a way in the cyclone on the IOtL of October, with considerable hiss of life. The pearl of fishing fleet was also partially swept away. 11..M.5. Cyclamen immediately went to the rescue and saved tt number clinging to the wreckage. The number who perished is still uncertain.

BRITAIN AND TURKEY. fßeeeivod this day at 8 a.m.) THE lIAGFE, October 27

Turkey has telegraphed the International Court regarding Iraq that the Turkish Government sees no reason for attacking. Sir Douglas Hogg said that Britain regretted the absence of Turkish representatives, because it was embarrassing to lie deprived of Turkey’s Mosul arguments. Britain contended that the Treat v of Lausanne clearly stipulated that in the event of an A nglo-Turkish dispute regarding the I rati tmu t ier, the League Council's decision should he binding.

TREASON IN IRELAND. LONDON. October 28

A self-styled “ Commandant-General of the Republican Army and Director of Intelligence attached to G.H.Q.,’’ .Michael Carohin was found guilty ill Dublin under the new treasonable offences act of participating in the formation of an organisation of a hotly purporting to he a military force which is not established and maintained hi law. A detective said he found accused in'a room entered by means of tt trapdoor and also found a number ol documents headed—“ Headquarter; LILA." Sentence was postponed.

CHINESE NEWS. PEKIN, October 28

Advices from Tsingtan stale thro? thousand Fengtienites hoarded font gunboats and three transports with large supplies of ammunition, ready tit proceed to Unichow to participate in a Hank attack on the Allies and simultaneously to start a drive southward to the main Foiigten army, which is in a strong position southward of llsucltow, and commands lili v miles of front. Ilonan troops arc keeping well inside the border. Reports are conflicting regarding their real altitude.

FASCISTS NARROW ESCAPE. ROME. Oct. 29

Through casually changing his train at the last minute the Faseisti Secre-tary-General. Signor Farinacci. escaped attempted assassination when the eotnparl incut of the train wherein he had arranged to travel was tiddlcd with bullets.

TI! IA L OF COMMUNISTS. SO .ME .1 NT E BESTING LETTERS. (Received this day at 10.0 a.lit.) LONDON Oct. 28. Among the letters read at the trial of the Communists, one said : "Half a dozen good party members in the police forces of the bigger towns, such as Glasgow would certainly he- very useful." I Jet ect i vc-Sergt. Hettshaw gave evidence that a quarter of a million documents were confiscated at the Headquarters. including it letter from E. AY. Middleton, asking the party’s official attitude towards the Communists wishing to ioin the police force which read : "Dear Comrade, there is no objection to members of the party joining the police, provided they are thoroughly reliable Communists, but. liclore permission is given, members tecotds should he carefully considered and complete trustworthiness established.’ Another letter to the Secretary of the Third International at Moscow, referred to the arrangements for assisting Bulgarian comrades in the Bulgarian campaign, and concluod by utgitig more discretion in handling communications from Moscow, adding: “A our letters make somewhat unnecessary references to the transmission of money bv secret i-htittiiels. 1 "

A letter dated .January. 192-1. addressed to Comrade Losovsky. Moscow, complained : “We have not received the promised money. You remcmlsot' we were promised £l5O monthly for six months, totalling £9OO. also additional sums for the President s and Secretary's wages.” XAY A L R KTR F.XC HMF, XT. LONDON, Oct. 28. In pursuance of the policy of retrenchment the Admiralty have an nonneed that all class K. submarines will lie scrapped, except K. 20, which with four L. class submarines, wil’ form the. reconstituted first submarine flotilla. Speeial reserve engineer officers will he abolished and special reserve Royal marine officers will ho reduced. Second cruiser squadron will he reduced, the Calliope being placed in reserve. One of the destroyer flotilla attached to the Atlantic licet wil' he reduced to the reserve. 'Reduction will also he effected in the number o/ tenders attached to the harbour training establishments at home ports. AY ILL OX A A f.Gfi. I.OXPOX, Oct. 28. Somerset House authorities are puzzled Over the will of a sailor inscribed on an egg for which probate is lieinp sought. The egg is inscribed in in deli Me pencil: ‘‘Seventeenth 1925. Mag. everything I possess.—J. Box - u.” The name of the month being missing the will will probably he pronounced invalid, because it is not witnessed . AX AIR LI’XCH. I.OXPOX. Oct. 28. A novelty was introduced in public luncheons when twenty passengers partook of a full course lunch while Hying over London. The plane was n new Vickers-Vanguard machine, equipped with a 700 horse power engine.. Each passenger had a comfortable chair at a table, the arrangements resembling a Pullman car. Two waiters were in attendance. The machine was built for the Air Ministry to he placed on the Imperial Airways Service for testing purposes. The Vanguard is a development of the Yimy, which flew to Australia,