BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuter Telegrams.]

FRENCH MINISTERIAL STATEMENT.

PARIS, November 2. The Ministerial statement was approved bv Cabinet and will be read in Parliament to-day. It deals principally with the financial situation. In addition to the sinking fund progrnnunc the statement includes a reduction of military service to one year and a reversion to the system of single member constituencies. ARMISTICE DAY. ARCHBISHOPS’ APPEAL. LONDON, November 3. j The Archbishops of Canterbury and York and the Moderator of the Federal Council of the Free Church have is-

sued a joint appeal for the observance of Armistice Day. 'They say: ”’Fite Locarno Agreement means the opening up of a new and brighter chapter in the tangled story of European relationship. Though it should stir us to a united effort to grapple with problems at Home, our supreme need is a clear atmosphere. Churchmen should hate to he at variance and should try to understand how acute is the existing distress and what sufferings there are in homes where unemployment N working havoc in the heart and mind. Callousness to the anxieties of others is a menace to our peace; nevertheless, there is also a spirit of mistrust tempting some to see less than that common good. A vivid recollection of Armistice Day of the blood shed for the preservation of England will inHume Iresh resolves. Armistice Day should be a preface to an effort, last-

ing for the rest of the month, wherein we should try to translate our hope; and definite thought by prayer and action and thus consecrate a new beginning to our national life.”

BRITISH MINISTER OF TURE(Received this day at 11.25 a.nO LONDON, Nov. .!. The Commoner. Lieut.-Colonel Walter Guinness, lias succeeded Mr E. E. L. Wood as Minister of Agriculture. WELSH DAM DISASTER.. LONDON. Nov. 3. Seven bodies have been recovered, but seventeen are still missing in tho Welsh dam disaster.

HERMAN CORPSE FACTORIES. (Received this day at 11.25 a.in.) I.ON DON, Nov. 3. Rrigadier-Honernl Chartoris lias issued a statement emphatically denying the statements attributed to mm ill regard to the Herman corpse factory during his recent visit to America. He said the allegations that lie had invented the Kadavera story and had altered the captions of the photograph or used faked material for propaganda purpose was absurd. He explained the whole circumstances to the Secretary of State who was perfectly .satisfied.

A REI ON OF TERROR. (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, November-I. Nino highspeed automobiles will patrol the city’s streets unceasingly in an endeavour to end the constantly increasing number of bold highway robberies and burglaries by armed desperadoes, which lias brought about a con-

dition approaching a reign of terror. The automobiles will carry a crew of trained silie pistol marksmen, nmrliinu gunners and gas bombers, who liavo been instructed to work swiftly and effectively. Radio apparatus will enable constant communication to bo kept up with police headquarters and signal rockets will be tired to spread the alarm, locally when necessary. Police Commission Enright evolved till- plan after consultation with tho army officers and police officials of tho United States abroad.

Commissioner Knriglit, whose term of office ends on Ist January, 1930, has declared: " AA’e are going to stamp out the bandits and thugs in New York. AA’e have spared nothing atkl we mean business.”

LOAN EAIBARGO BEHOVED. LONDON, November 3. Speaking at Sheffield, the Ron. AA rinstou Churchill announced the Government had decided to remove the embargo on the Dominion and foreign loans.

CONFIDENCE IN GOVERNMENT (Received this dav at 13 30 p.m.l PA R 18. November 3.

The Government has decided to stand or fall bv the vote in the Chamber on the -Ministerial declaration which has been presented to the Chamber. The Socialists have decided to ohstain from

voting. The declaration stresses the financial problem, hut fails to reveal the proposed taxation, merely declaring that all forms of wealth must participate.

The declaration says the menace in .Morocco has been removed and the French occupy a strong position on the northern frontier line, whence suspicious movements can he watched and suppressed. Twenty battalions are re-

turning to Franco. Documents attribute the painful event in Syria to a war of agitation sweeping from China to Morocco. The Government has opened an enquiry and will appoint civil high commissioners. The solo aim of the Government is to hasten, in conformity with the terms of the League Mandate, the time when the people of Syria will lx* capable of self Government.

After a deflate the Chamber adopted a motion of confidence in the Government bv 331 to 189.