BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Renter Tolegrams.] SOCIETY SCANDAL. LONDON', Jan. G. The “Daily Chronicle” states that the Duke of Leinster has tiled nil action against the Duchess, formerlv - A* ary Etheridge, the actress, and has s>lso cited F. Cl, Newell, as co-defender with Lady Leinster. The Duke, in 1018, sold his reversionary interest in tho Leinster estates to Mr Mallany Deeley, M.P.. for 07 thousand sterling, receiving an annuity of one thousand. SHAH OF PERSIA. BAGHDAD, January fi. It is now believed the Shah (cabled «n 3rd) is uninjured. AN AUBE! ASSAULTED. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) PARTS, Jan. G. r A violent attack on Abbe Desnosers, of Bonbon, near Meluin, is featured in ' ■—After Mass, twelve persons threw peper in the Abbe’s eyes. He was bound, stripped of his clothing and flogged. His cries attracted tin- Gendarmes, who arrested the assailants. They declared they had come expressly from Bordeaux to chastise the Abbe, "*ho they accuse of witchcraft, and blamed him for family misfortunes. Tlie assailants were charged with conspiracy, assault, and outrage. Behind the attack is the weirdest story. Mesmin.s had a statue of the Virgin which wept, but ceased whremoved to a convent. She replaced it by a facsimile from Milan, which did not weep, but exhaled a sweet perfume that also ceased, and Mesmin began to suffer. She then accused the Abbe of witchcraft, despite the fact that the authorities demonstrated the absurdity of miraculous statues.,

RIG LANDSLIDE. LONDON, Jan. (!. The Genova correspondent of the “ Times ” states the village of Schimberg, near Lucerne, is seriously menaced as the result of a, landslide, wliic 1 involves a surface of seventy-four acres, containing fields and orchards which arc rapidly descending on the •village, despite all preventive measures Large crevasses have appeared at a distance of 130 yards from tho first houses. AUSTRIAN UNEMPLOYMKNT. [" The Times ” Service.] (Received this dov at 0.45 am A LONDON, Jan. G. The Vienna correspondent of the “Times” reports the latest figures show that unemployment in Austria is increasing at the rate of ten thousand weekly The total unemployed at the end of December was estimated al 240,000, or four per cent of the whole population of the country. Vienna alone has over 100,000 idle, which L the highest recorded figure

EARTHQUAKE TN COLOGNE. (Received this dav at 0.30 a.m.) COLOGNE. Jan. G. There was an •earthquake shock at 12.40 this morning, with a duration of ♦ Jive seconds. Buildings shook violently and many people rushed into the .streets without dressing, spending the remaining hours till daylight in the open. The damage is slight. Only ■districts adjacent to the Rhine were affected.

FLOOD'S SUBSIDING. AM.ST Eli DAM" Jan. 0. The floods are subsiding everywhere, except at Northern Limburg and Deventer, where another dyke on the Ysel burst near the village of inundating a large urea. KNOII AIO ITS I>KVA ST A TIO X. (Received this day at 8.50 a.in.) BERLIN, Ja.n. 6. The sudsidenee of the floods hi the Rhineland is revealing enormous devastation. Twenty thousand houses ivere damaged in C’obhen and thousands of families are in dire distress. Sixty thousand workers are idled. The damage i.s estimated at one million sterling. Neuwiedt suffered severely. Thousands of inhabitants are homeand factories have closed down. It will take months to recover from the disaster. OUTBREAK OF FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. AMSTERDAM, Jan. G.

Foot and mouth disease has "broken out in cattle in Balgoy and several other villages.

IMPERIAL TB.ADE. LONDON, .Tan. G. Sir Cuncliffe Lister (President of the Board of Trade) in an address to Not-

tingham business men, declared that Imperial Trade, by common consent, .-' had become the Empire’s policy. If an Empire vote could he taken there would he an overwhelming majority for prefrence and not the least in the mother Country. AVo needed to seek complementary rather than competitive markets and the Dominions were the best in that sense. By buying British goods they could take something off the dole. EIFFEL TOWER BFTNG DESTROYED. PARIS. Jan. 7. Eiffel Tower is threatened with destruction by rust which is defying ■ constant repainting. Experts are for an effective coating. CARDINAL SERTOUSIY ILL. ROAIE, Jan. 7. Cardinal Onsquet i.s seriously ill and has received the last sacrament. BANK AIANAGER.fi ARRESTED. NEW YORK. Jan. 7. London, Ruddy and Franks, rnann- _ gers of three hanks in Los Angeles, were arrested at Los Angeles, following on an investigation bv detectives into cheque manipulations on a large scale, causing losses totalling one Hundred thousand sterling. John Pronli, the alleged masier mind of the conspiracy has fled to Mexico with more than £40,G00 of the loot. Lnndon was his chief assistant, reporting to other institutions that ® -Pronk’s cheques were good. Brook kept two sets of hooks and eight different hank accounts. There fifty employees in his office oeal'dnjg in automobiles, often hnndlinff hundreds at times, with, drafts upon in the Eastern States. TEA SALESCALCUTTA, Jan- 6. At the tea sales a, useful selection was offered, the quality generally being slightly below tho previous sale. There was a good demand for the better classes and dusts advanced half to 1} annas. Other sorts showed a slight decline, the average prices for tho commonest leaf being 13 annas six price toil annas 6 pice, ordinary common Pekoe Souchong 13 annas to 13 annas 6 pice, lowest even leaf Pekoe, 14 annas.