BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

| Reuter Telegrams. | LONDON. November lib Obituary. Sir Edward Person. A .MEMORIAL SERVICE. LONDON. November 111. .*> mining memorial service lor the victims of Al.l was held at. dawn on the spot where the submarine submerged for the last time, aboard His .Majesty's Ship. .Maidstone, which was aeeuipanying Al.l when it. disappeared. Fight submarines, two destroyers and two mine sweeners participated in the ceremony. Flags were half-masted, Ihe burial service was road, and ‘‘Eternal Father ” Anthem sung. Three volleys were fired, the Last Post sounded and wreaths were dropped into the sea. German divers wirelessed wishing in spirit, t join sincerely in tie service. INDIAN EXECUTIONS. DELHI, November 19. Two accused in the Pahla ease (cabled on Ala.v 28rd) were executed at Romhav. The third accused, who was sentenced to death, is mentally deranged and is confined to an asylum. A LOAN FOR ITALY. NEW YORK, Nov. 18. A loan of one hundred million dollars for the Italian Government ensuring financial support for tlie restoration of the gold standard in Italy, has been arranged through a group of American banks, headed by the .Morgan Company.

EIRE IN STEAMER. LONDON, November 20. A fire was discovered in the steamer Chin Alaekay, which recently arrived from Tonga, with a cargo containing coni'll, silver and copper valued at about three hundred thousand sterling, the bulk whereof has been discharged, sixty thousand worth remaining when she eatight fire. A fire floats tug and fire engines are flooding the holds. GER.MAN SENSATION. BERLIN, November 19.

A sensa'tion was caused as the 10suit, of ti disclosure by Brauns. Minister of Labour and loading Cent rest Mint the German delegation to Locarno had no Cabinet, mandate to initial the Pact documents. Brauns and Itlio. the senior Minister, left Berlin during the absence of Luther and Stresemami. They declared the (lay the Pact was initialled, an official telegram was despatched to Lea run demanding the postponement of the initialling, but it arrived too late. We originally thought that at Locarno there would merely be a plain ordinary discussion between the Foreign Ministers concerned. Even when the members ol the delegation departed we still thought the discussions would not he binding. Members ol the Cabinet remaining in Berlin, first heard of the initialling proposal ill) the day whereon it occurred. The Nationalist press seized on the incident demanding a thorough investigation of the whole tacts, hut it i> noteworthy that the t entrests -C ongoss at which Brauns made the statement has concluded, passing a resolution ill favour of the Government’s policy.