BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuter Telegrams.]

LIBERAL-LABOUR FUSION. HUMOURS DENIED. LONDON, November 27. Mr Ramsay MacDonald and M.r J. 11. Thomas deny the rumours of n pending alliance between Mr Lloyd George's supporters and Labour. They state there has been no overtures and no negotiations. The rumours originated in the report that Mr Lloyd George had refused tho further use of his funds to the Liberal Party unless his land policy was adopted. [PISH RYE-ELECTION. LONDON, November 2*. Owing In the death of Sir William Allen, the Unionist member for County .crmnglt in the Ulster Parliament, the bye-elect ion resulted:— .1. Davidson (Unionist) ... 22,300 Todd (Farmers' Candidate) ... 5,880 COLOGNE EVACUATION. PARIS, November 27. Regrouping of the troops has been completed as the result of the forthcoming evacuation of Cologne. by transfer of the British troops to VVeisbakcr. The French army of occupation will henceforth consist of three army corps and six divisions, including one cavalry division.

OPENING OF CANBERRA. LONDON. November 27. In releroiicc to the report that Prince Henry may open Canberra, it is stated, officially, that it is quite impossible to t;ay who will go. the actual date of the inauguration being ttn-

VISCOFNT ALLEXRY. LONDON. November 27. Viscount and Lady Allenby left London yesterday morning for Australia and New Zealand. The Viscount said • here was nothing official about his I rip.

CAMPAIGN OF PROTEST. LONDON. November 27. The General Council of the Trade Union Congress and the Labour Party Executive jointly called on organized Labour to participate in a campaign of protest against the severity of the sentences on the Communists and to letnand their early release.

WIPELESS STRIKE. LONDON. Nov. 23. 'I lie strike of wire I esse operators will not affect land stations, hut the association of wireless and cable teleprahisis which called tho strike claims as members ninety-eight per cent of wireless operators aboard Rritish merchantmen. Wireless operators have boon instructed to report to the Union as soon as their ships come to port, and out sign on for fresh voyages, hut ships already at sea will not he endangered as existing contracts will not he broken. The opinion is expressed that if the Hoard of Trade insists on a full observation of the regulations in regard to carrying wireless operators many ship's must he held up.

SYRIAN REVOLT. BEIRUT. Nov. 23. It is announced that insurgents ha'"e destroyed iwi important railway bridge I et’-'een Horns and Damascus. French rrcinfoncmcnts are being rushed to ! fonts. THE .MOSUL DISPUTE. CONSTANTINOPLE. Xnv. 28. The Council of Ministers have decided to refuse the League's compulsory arbitration regarding Mosul. THE OWNERS’ COMMENTS. LONDON. Nov. 28. The shipowners announce the the strike is over in Australia. They declare the strikers' loss in wages aggregates a very large sum. The dislocation of services must he reflected in less employment for some time to come, as a number of steamer'-' cannot return to Britain for several months. The only gainers by tho strike have been the foreign shipowners. Tho losses exceed two millions sterling. CANADIAN WAR VETERANS. VANCOUVER. Nov. 28. At a conference at Winnipeg of the Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League, it was decided to adopt the new 1011111' of the United V nr Veterans’ Organisation. LieutenantGeneral Sir Percy Lake is it* first president. FROST IN BRITAIN. LON'DON, Nov. 28. Tho Manchester races, including the November Handicap, and many football matches, have bean abandoned owing to frost. AVIATION TRAGEDY. LONDON. Nov. 28. Flight Lieut. Slater and his pilot officor crashed upon the Avon aerodrome, and were killed. The former brought down twenty German machines during the war.

ANGLO-GERMAN TRADE. RERUN. Nov. 28. A disagreement has oenrred •regarding tile interpretalion of a clause ill the Protocol of the Anglo-German Commercial Treaty, whereby the British Government pledged itsolt not to impose duties especially detrimental to j Germany. The German delegates j claimed the British customs duties on ! many German exports, particularly musical instruments, and pianos, should he abrogated, or considerably reduced in view of this clause. POITTICAL PRISONERS LIBERATED. LONDON. Nov. 28. Six prisoners, disguised as Civic Guards', escaped from Mount joy Gaol, in Dublin. Shooting followed. the police and soldiers stopping and searching all vehicles in the city. Nineteen others also escaped, and they remain at large, although the city has been searched al night. It is stated three men. disguised as policemen, arrived at the prison with the three supposed prisoners. No sooner were they admitted that they produced revolvers, gagged the warder .and ieleased nineteen political “(tenders. SHIPPING DISASTER. AMSTERDAM. Nov. 28. The Milton 'Star was clocked at Vlaardingcr. She is reported to hate collided during a stern, with a -hm which sank immediately. U was impossible to save the crew. Ihe ost craft is lsdieved to he a Dutch schooner with thirteen aboard. ENGLISH TEAM FOR CANADA. LONDON. Nov. 29.

The Football Association has provisionally accepted the Canadian Football Association’s invitation to send an English team to Canada for a seven or eight weeks tour next winter, the Dominion organisation undertaking to defray all expenses. EIGHT ARRESTS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.t LONDON, November 29. Eight arrests were made in Dublin in connection with the prison escapade, including two sons of Count Plunkett. BRITISH TROOPS IN CHINA. TOR 10, November 29. ' The War Office considers the present normal forces of one division and lour railway guard battalions in -Manchuria are adequate, though these will he reinforced in the protection ol the lives and property of nationals should it necessitate such a step. Despatches received by the Foreign Office from Manchuria state that Japanese citizens are forming volunteer companies for self-protection, but the Government has ordered all citizens to observe strict neutrality.