AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1925, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Reuter Telegrams.] FRENCH POLITICS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NIW YORK, Dec. ‘27. The New York '‘Times” Paris correspondent states' there is tenseness in the political atmosphere of France this weekend, which is greater than any since the end of the war. M. Hriand’s Government is split within itself, the Radical members opposing the Premier and M. Doumer. The Left Cartel midair M. Herriot and Ilium is making a last strong attempt to take hack the complete direction nl affairs and reform its ranks under its own leaders. It. will lay on the ( hamtier’s table on .Monday its plan for halansing next year’s budget. It will then lie incumbent on the Government to accept or give way and il the Government declines to accept its defeat will follow.

The Left's plan includes a reduction of eight hundred million I runes in the 1926 budget, through nation wide economy and a. rigid application o! income tax with an increase as high as two hundred per cent, severe penalties for all tax dodgers from farmers to industrialists (including prison sentences and suspension of civil rights), and a thirty por cent, reduction in income tax on salaried persons.

WEATHER IN U.K.A. NEW YORK, Dee. 26

A cold wave struck many parts of the country to-day bringing suffering and death in its wake. The gale struck New York, bringing the thermometer eighteen below, and covering the city with whirling dust and smoke from the bituminous burning fires. The temnorature in Chicago was two below and five died from the cold. Port Covington, New York, reported eighteen below and Mineapolis thirteen below. The. storm which started east from Kansas on Thursday morning, bringing a cold wave, was centred off the Nova Scotian coast this morning and was continuing out to sea.

Weather reports showed below zero temperatures as far south as the middle portions of the States bordering on the Gulf of Mexico, where the Bureau states the cold will hold throughout the coming week and predicts heavy snowstorms.

"Wisconsin, Minnesota and .North T)aknto were the heaviest sufferers, little lack of coal aggravated the situation in many States.

AGATNST IMMODEST DRESS. (Received this dav at 9.30 a.m.l WASHINGTON. Dec. 28,

Society leaders, headed by Mrs .Tulm Henderson, wife of a former Senator, and for long influential in diplomatic and official circles, began a campaign against the present immodest tendencies in the dress habits of American women. The Daughters of the American Revolution, the General Federation of Women's Clubs and the National Congress of Parents and Teachers are behind the movement, which has resolved that the best dressed in England and France, as here represented in their embassies and hv the Royal Family in Britain, do not follow fashions in women’s apparel not In good taste, and disregard the fashions dictated hv the* underworld of Paris. Mrs Henderson suggests for street wear broader dress skirts and of ankle length and prays, iav the interests of public health and efficiency, women should abandon cigarette smoking. Mrs TToridcrso-n is particularly remembered as having organised a ooromonv and invited guests to witness the breaking of bottles of rare vintages from hor collars upon the advent of prohibition. prmw 9 cnnnn?! muwq [Router Telegrams.] S'XOAV FOOTBALL. LONDON. Dee. 27. Owing to life football ground at Bath being covered in snow, he -e----feree for the Bath-Yeuvil match said the game could lie played provided the pit'll was marked out with soot, but the whole city was searched vainly, consequently the match was abandoned.

ITALIAN DELEGATION. LONDON, Dee. 27. The Italian Debt Commission vil 1 arrive in London on Jan. 3rd. No go tintions will follow.

BALKAN AFFAIRS. (Received this day at 8 n.m.) ,BELGRADE, Dee. 26

Rush by Bey. on route to Constantinople interviewed Nineliitoh, Foreign Minister of Jugo-Slnvia and discussed commercial treaties and Consulate arrangements for emigration.

MR GARVIN’S REVIEAT. (Received - this day at 8 a.m.l LONDON, Dee. 27. Tn the “Observer” Air Garvin reviewing 1925, says:—“There are encouraging signs of a definite recovery of trade. Government owes the firmness of its position more to the weakness of Labour and Liberal opposition than to its own virutes and performances. The British Empire ns a

whole liiis shown progress everywhere. Preference has been established here as n principle of a past reversal. Australia and Now Zealand, like Britain the year previously have voted tor stability, and in the Commonwealth violent Labour troubles have been overcome in a manner promising more settled conditions.” Mr Garvin recalls that the position in India and Ireland has improved and states:—‘‘The greatest single achievement is t-ho became Pact, tint theie is one weak spot. Let none suppose Mosul will be as easily managed in the future as the Minister and his facile maioritv suppose. lie are creating a little lilster in that region by insisting on calling it part of Iraq. The test will come in lf>‘2B when our part was to have been regarded as complete. Jt looks as though one issue ill the next, general election has already been decided upon.” HOLY YEAR. ROME. December 23. The Pope on December 24th, solwnnlv closed the Holy Year, by building lip the Jubilee Door, which he opened on the 24th December last year. Held in the presence e r ,, '»yal princes, the Roman nob” riuces of the Church, the eeronm.. s most elaborate.

MOVIE MONOPOLY'. LONDON, December 23

It is expected the Government will earnestly attack the American film monopoly in Britain early in the New Year, for the purpose of stimulating production of British pictures. It is most unlikely the Government will insist on the compulsory inclusion in all programmes of ten per cent of British films, thereby increasing the industry’s development. It is also expected the existing voluntary censorship will be replaced by a compulsory one. which will be an important difference. A committee who originated the new scheme proposed the compulsory screening of certain British films. This was rejected. A small majority of the exhibitors are now asked to submit further proposals. BULGARIAN AFFAIRS. (Received this day at 9-30 a.m.' LONDON, December 28. The “Times” Vienna correspondent says the Bulgarian Government tomorrow will ask Parliament to grant an nmnetsy to ten thousand political

offenders, affecting besides those imprisoned, many thousands who were killed, including ten members of the Stnmboulski Cabinet. The Government plans' to bring to an end the foreign charges that it is living by terrorism. TURKISH DIVORCE. (Received this d°v at 9.4 > a m.i CONSTANTINOPLE. Dec. 20. A clause in the new Turkish Civil Code ends the right of man to divorce his wife at will without trial. Henceforth divorces will he granted only by a decree of the courts and only in such eases as insanity, desertion and unfaithfulness. This terminates one of the outstanding phases of women’s subjection in Turkey. A .Moslem, under the old laws, was able to divorce Ids wife merely by announcing the fact before two witnesses or writing “ 1 divorce so-and-so.” BRITAIN AND RUSSIA, iLOjX DON. Dee. 27. The “Sunday Express” Riga correspondent states: “M. ’lehitehorin informed me that the Soviet is ready for a new conference with Britain, and he hoped an agreement could be arranged. UNITY NECESSARY TO PROSPERITY. BERLIN, Dee. 20. Herr Sehacht. President of the Reiehshnnk. commends the suggestion of M. I .ouch cur for an international economic conference, which he believes would show that no nation can prosper at the expense of another. Dr Stresemann, in an article in U

“Dresden Newestenaehrichton.” stresses the importance of unity among European nations. He argues that England’s unemployment would lessen, if Germany’s purchasing power were increased and France's finances would improve when a peaceful Europe offeted a safe ground for foreign credits and investments.