BRITISH 4 FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1925, Page 2

BRITISH 4 FOREIGN NEWS

fAustralia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY. LONDON, December 27. A Christmas tragedy occurred at Trowbridge. Edward Charles Richards was found shot hi his own. garden. He made a statement to the police, who, on Christmas Day, arrested Rornbadier John Lincoln at a house where a party was progressing. Lincoln said : “Do not break up the party. I will come quietly.” The theory is that Richards, who intended joining his wife at Swindon the following day. and the men were leaving the house when a scuffle followed. Another man arrested was Bombadiet- lan Maxwell. FRENCH SAILORS RUN AMOK. PARIS, December 27. Two sailors dashed into a dance hall at Toulon, brandishing sheath knives. They struck right and left, twenty men and women before Oiftr was captured. The other escaped. DUCHESS FORBIDDEN TO DANCE. LONDON, December 27. A dispatch says the Duchess of York has been forbidden to take part in .games and dancing. She intends to live quietly for the next few months in expectation of a happy event. ROME, December 27.

The Pope’s encyclic announcing tho inauguration on the 31st December a movement to consecrate makind to tho Sacred Heart of Jesus, trusts Parliaments and international bodies will recognise the Kingdom of Christ whereby they will bo enabled to remedy errors. KITCHENER MYSTERY. LODNON, December 27. Mr Frank Power, writing in the *‘ Referee,” asserts that Mr AY. C. Bridgetnan (First Lord of the Admiralty) in his statement a lew days ago made a futile effort to evade tho charges that: — (1) Afore than twelve survived from tho disaster to the armoured cruiser Hampshire in which Lord Kitchener and his sfaff were travelling to Russia, and which was lost off the Orkney Islands on the sth of June, PUG.

(2) Lord Kitchener escaped in a small boat, and he survived for two nights and a day in an inaccessible part of the Orkney const. (3) Lord Kitchener’s body was found elsewhere. (I) An infernal machine exploded aboard the Hampshire. (5) The Navy were guilty of slackness in sending rescue parties. M r Powers declares that the Germans •were aware of Lord Kitchener’s mission sufficiently in advance of his departure to lay thirty-four mines in tho vicinity of the Orkneys, each inscribed “ Gntt Strafe Kitchener.” He says Mr Bridgetnan failed to disclose that a trawler was mined and sank in the Hampshire’s path three days prior to the disaster to the cruiser.

BRITISH MAIL DEIJVERY. LONDON, December 27. The Post Office broke a long record to-day when the delivery of letters, including an Australian mail, was general throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Outside of London, -, this was the first Sunday delivery sineo the war. For London itself it was tho first in living memory. A ]>ostnl official declares that there had not hoett a Sunday postal delivery in London since hoys moulded on ponies rodo round the city ringing hells and announcing the arrival of mails. The innovation is due to the authorities giving the sorters and postmen a Boxing Day holiday after their gruelling work in dealing with Christmas cards and parcels. For this boon, enabling them'' to participate in family festivities, they consented to provide a morning deliverv to-day.

RAILWAY DISASTER. BUCHAREST, December 2d. It is reported ten were killed and twenty seriously injured when passenger and freight trains collided in the vicinity of Arad. CTNEArA FIRE DISASTER. AIANITjA. December 2fi. Thirteen persons were killed and a hundred injured when the Theatre Cohn was burned to the ground. The fire started in the film projection room. The audience became panic stricken and rushed the exits. Many wore burned as the flames spread. Others were trampled underfoot. An American, with an axe, cut in the wall, saving the lives of several people. ENEAfY AIERCITANTAfEN. LONDON, December 27.

The Sixth Convention of the League, relative to the status of enemy merchantmen. at the outbreak of hostilities, designed to introduce uniformity of practice into the treatment of belligerent States of enemy mereliantmenfc I in foreign ports on the outbreak of I war, has boon denounced by Britain, as a Privy Council decision prevents her adopting the convention. The despatch says that of the Powers signatory to the Convention seventeen failed to ratify it. Germany and Russia ratified with important reservations, and the United States had not signed at all. EIFFEL AERIALS WRECKED. PARIS, December 25. A gale wrecked the Eiffel Tower aerials, preventing broadcasting. and overturned a ferry boat crossing the river Seine. Nine persons were drowned. Several were injured in Rheims hv collapsing walls. The gale razed tombsi ones in Clermont, leaving the cemetery like a shell-torn battlefield. ANGLO-ITALIAN DEBTS.

(Received this day at 9.0 a.m i ROAfE, December 28. The .Milan newspaper “ Popolo d’ltnlin ’’ in an outspoken editorial on the Anglo-ltnlian debts, which is supposed to reflect Mussolini’s opinions, says: When two nations suffered together For a common victory a brutal calculation from a business viewpoint regarding the debt of one nation, must he corrected h.v a high political, diplomatic and historic vision of negotiations. England would give inestimable proof of her gratification to Italy it she accorded conditions more favourable than those granted by the United States. .Moreover, Italy received no colonial mandates, whereas the English received a large proportion of the booty of victory. The problem of tho gold deposited in England must he kept distinct from others. The gold was given as a pledge and pledges must ho destroyed.

HI, WINDY CASTLE OWNER DEAD. LONDON, Dee. 27. Obituary—Sir George C’olthurst owner of Blarney Castle, the location of the famous stone. VILLAGE TO BE SOLD. LONDON, Dee. 27. The village of Derbey. Clevedon, and practically all Havenliome Priory < l.inconlshire). will lie sold by auction in the New Year. The villages are part of the estate of the Earl of AVinchesea.