BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1925, Page 1

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

| Reuter Telegrams.] A ROMP. 1)E 111. IN, November 20. A,i seven this morning a bomb coinplelel.v wrecked .Masterpiece Kmonin, where the British war film " 5 pres, was being shown. Two policemen were shot when endeavoring to frustrate the raiders, one seriously. The raiders arrived in a motor-car during a fog. Few people were astir. The men entered the kincma deposited a bomb, and when the police intervened, the raiders abandoned their motorcar, and Hod exchanging revolver shots. Ihe explosion was heard all over the cite. Plate glass in adjoining shop windows was shattered and the street littered with drapery, woodwork- and glass. (HUT PARTES. LONDON, November 20. Obituaries.- -The novelist AY. E. Norris of Sydney, and Pardon, well-known, journalist and editor ol \A isden s Almanack'. aged seventy. RACES POSTPONED. LONDON. November 20. Derby and C’attcrick races were abandoned owing to fog and frost respectively. SCB.MARIXE QUESTION. PARIS, November 20.

Interviewed by Anglo-American pressmen Bored. Minister for Marine, declared the French Government agreed with Air Baldwin that the submarine question should he considered jointly by all interested countries in connection with the whole problem of naval disarmament. France, however, was not. unmindful of the spirit of Locarno, and intended to reduce the submarine programme hv an equivalent ot one third, hv spreading the construction programme for 1925-20 over eighteen months each. Tie concluded that France did not desire to fall behind other countries in the cause of peace or disarmament. FRENCH ST’CAR AND BETTER. PATHS. November 20. The Ministry of Agrictulture estimates the sugar production of France at fifteen thousand quintals. Exports of fresh, melted and salt butter fell from eighty-seven thousand quintals in 1923 to forty thousand in 1921. while during the first 9 months of 1925, they totalled twenty-eight thousand quintals compared with twenty-nine thousand during the corresponding period ol 1921.

STRIKE BREAKING SCHEME. LONDON, November 21. The Government’s plans to maintain communications, food, light, and power in the event of a general strike, or a similar emergency, have been published in detail. The country is divided into ten areas, each with its own official, invested with the widest powers. CORRUPT SOVIET OFFICIALS. MOSCOW, Nov. 20. Altogether 123 officials in Leningrad are involved in the recent trial for misappropriation. Twelve have been sentenced to death, Including the beads of various departments; thirty-five were acquitted, and the remainder sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. help for. spahlinger. GENEVA, Nov. 20. The whole Swiss Cabinet visited the Spahlinger Institute, and expressed surprise at the results achieved. The President intimated the Government’s intention of co-operating. EGYPTIAN PARLTAMENT. CAIRO, Nov. 21. Troops and police early to-day surrounded the Parliament Buildings m order to enforce the warning against the Deputies meeting, hut nevertheless n meeting of the Senators and Deputies numbering 180, was held at the Continental Hotel. Three of the Opposition groups had previously issued a manifesto protesting against the Government’s unconstitutional aetiton, and declaring that the dissolution decree of kx Ala roll was illegal. Zagloul Pasha (ex-Premier) exhorted student ’demonstrators outside his house to return quietly to their homes. Zaghloul Pasha then went- to the Continental Hotel, where the meeting elected him President. The Chamber of -Deputies passed a vote of no confidence in the present Ministry, declaring that Parliament will meet at such time and place as the members may decide. Zaghloul Pasha, in a speech, said that lie was t.lic defender of the constitution. The meeting ended without incident. IRISH BOUNDARY QUESTION. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, November 20. The Free State Cabinet has accepted AlcNeill’s resignation which is believed to be due to dissatisfaction with the decisions of Messrs Feetbam and Fisher favouring Ulster and his desire not to sign the report. LONDON, November 21. Professor McNeill, the Free State member, lias resigned from the Northern Ireland Boundary Commission. DIVING RECORDS. LONDON, Nov. 21. The Oernian divers made tlieir first attempt to locate, the. sunken submarine “Al.l" off Start Point. The warship Southdown arrived over a buoy marking the spate, when Otto Kraft entered the steel man. but the weather conditions were untavourabl. and made it difficult to hoist the diver from the bold and lower him into the sea. Kraft was buffeted and badly shaken, and the attempt, had to be abandoned. A second attempt was made in the evening. Kraft having recovered Iron) the effects of his previous effort. He successful I v reached the lxittom. making a diving record of 239 feel. HOW SHE WAS SUNK. LONDON, Nov. 21. The Admiralty announces that an investigation reveals that the Swedish vessel A'irdar, collided with and sunk the submarine "A 1.1." when the latior was submerged.

COLI'JSIOX PROVED. STOCKHOLM Nov. 21. Tli,' must,'!- of the ship Vinlar, wliicli arrived here in flic Tilth inst, reports Liuit :it 7.15 o'clock on the morning of the Pith November, while in the English C'hiuinel, a shock wits noticed which wns considered to he an underwater detonator. Having been informed of the sinking of the submarine •■M.I." the master thought that possi11v the shock was connected with the disaster. Hence the Vidor was examined. Divers discovered that the stein under the water was heavily bent to port. There were also several rivets gone and plates were damaged, indicating a collision with some submarine object. It is certain, under the circumstances that the “.M.l’' perished completely, and was flooded. The crew must have boon drowned immediately. LOCARNO FACT. BERLIX. Nov. -JO. A number of the Socialists decided to vote in favour of the Locarno Pact in the Reichstag on .Monday. It is expected jdmt there will be a substantial majority for ratification. Dr Ltd her has intimated that the Cabinet would resign alter the I act is signed.

COAIM EXIST TIM Ah. I.OXDOX. Xov. -!(>. Sir 11. Slesser. concluding a sixhours' speech for the defence at the trial of the Communists, said that this was one of the most important cases submitted to a British jury for many years. On the decision depended the liberties and opportunities lor men to write and express their opinions fur many years to come. gj,. ]i Slesser called only one witness, who’ testified as to purchasing at His Majesty's Stationary Officecopies of the ( Jovcrnmem report on Russia. , The defendant. Polhu, addressed the jury. He was refused permission bv the Judge to quote the speeches „f Lord Birkenhead, Lord Carson and Sir AY. Jovnson Hicks, the Judge iemarking: “1 cannot have their .seditions mixed up with yours.

THE FRENCH FRANC. (Fueecivod this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, November 20. The French franc has established a new low record of 124.