BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuter Telegrams.] BASLE EXPRESS SMASH. PARIS, December 2.1. Experts arc of the opinion that a miracle saved the passengers in the Basle Express collision with « goods train. Only five were injured. Ambulance s were rushed from Paris. None were killed despite the fact that all ears left the rails, several being telescoped.

SOVIET DISCORD. LONDON, December 2.1.

'file “ Times ” Riga. correspondent, says the Soviet Chiefs are again at logger heads. The progress of the Communist Congress now being held at Moscow revealed serious disagreement, not only among the Leningrad and Moscow Communists, blit also the attending party leaders. Zinovieff and Kameneff are reported to have opposed the majority’s general policy.

It is declared the party's discipline is still strong enough to prevent an immediate split.

CHEERLESS) VIENNA. VIENNA. Dev. 23. With nearly ninety thousand unemployed, empty shops, moneyless people and increasing business failures, ■Vienna is faced with a cheerless Xmas. The weather is intensely cold and shopkeepers are despairing. The windows are attractively stocked, hut only the pM cheaper articles and necessities are selling. There is no sale for poultry, game, wines, liquors and other Christmas fare. The only traders doing well arts those selling on the instalment plan. CHINESE FIGHTING. PEKIN, December 2ft. A wireless from Tienstin states the Eeiiigyushiangers, after heavy artillery fire, attacked the Lichienglinites, who were outnumbered by three to one, ami were driven back from tour to five kilometers to their reserve lines. The Fengites are expected to reach Tientsin soon. Liehmglin. however, has gone to the front to organise his last stand. FRENCH NEWSPAPERS. LONDON, December 2:1. As a result of a. conference between representatives of the Printing Federation and the Newspaper Society the evening papers will he published in most provincial towns on the 20th.