BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuter Telegrams.] DE IMNERO'S FLIGHT. DELHI. October 28. De Piiiedo lias left Rangoon for Calcutta. MR DARRELL FIGGIS. LONDON. October 27. The death under sensationally tragic circumstances is recorded of a noted Irish writer, and politician. Mr Darrell Figgis, who bad been one of the most uncompromising Republicans, and was a member of the Rail Eii'oann. Mr Figgis was a brilliant journalist and was regarded by l lie a lit i-Republicans in England and Ireland as one of tbo most effective advocates of Irish independence. lie was found dead in his room at Bloomsbury. London. Mr Figgis was a witness al the inquest only last week on a Irish dance teacher, .Miss Rita North, wlm died in tbo Mid.r.cscx Hospital, lie said that bo bail known the deceased lady for two years. She went to a nursing home, declaring Ihat site would be well in it few days, when I hey could be married, but death resulted. Mr Figgis took a room in Bloomsbury yesterday, and lie as lound ibis morning dead in bed with the gas jet lull turned on. A sensation was caused in the Irish Frco Stale some lime ago by Ibe death of his late wife, who engaged a taxicab and drove to the Wicklow Mountains, where sin- dismissed the driver and then shot herself.

PA I XI.EYE THE PREMIER. PARIS. October 29. Al. Painleve has accepted the premiership. Al. Brin ml remains Foreign .Minister. A WEAI BLEY DINNER. LONDON, October 80. The Duke of York presided at a dinner given by the Empire Exhibition Comissioners for tlie Dominions and (Minnies.

Mr Justice Rawlings (Australia) in proposing the toast ol the Empire Exhibition, said he hoped tlie Imperial Government might he induced to maintain the ownership of Wemhley to show what L.ie Empire meant.

The lion. 1,. ('. M. S. Amerv dealt with the educational value of the exhibition. If only we could grasp the vision of the development ot the Empire clearlv and strongly, then the possibilities of our development, and growth and the progressive weltnre ot all parts of the Empire would he illimitable. The Duke of York, responding said the Dominions, Colonies. Protectorates and Mandated Territories, had proved that little or nothing was not producahie within the Empire. SWISS COMMUNISTS GET SET BACK. GENEVA. October 29. Oidv three Communists were elected to the Swiss Parliament out of ISA who stood.