BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia A; N.Z. Cable Association, l VAGABONDAGE IN SOVIET ■ RUSSIA. LONDON, Jan. 11. The ’Times” Riga correspondent says a piquant sidelight on the conditions in Russia is provided in the report of the Soviet Commissariat of Education dealing with child vagabondage, showing that in European Russia there are 150,00!) child vagabonds and 300,000 in the state of semi-vagabon-dage. The figures tlo not inclui.foi.tho,,. . Ukraine and Caucasus, wfcertf" such-. waifs are in countless numbers. The Soviet has decided to round up 30,009 of Moscow's vagabonds in - hoping to distribute them among the peasants who will In? enticed to adopt , them by offers of extra land and money. FREQUENT FLOTATIONS. LODNON,.January 12. “ Not many weeks pass without a murder or a new Australian loan ” is the opening phrase of the city article in the “ Daily Herald ” to-day, entitled “ Australia Asks For Afore.” 7 The financial expert of the “ continues:—“This week it is South Australia and Queensnnd, with quite attractive trustee stocks, but they make the conversion of British loans more costly. Australia is the sort of borrower who, when asked ‘ How much do you want?” answers ‘How much have you got?’ I suppose these loans are safe enough, but Australian indebtedness is increasing a good deal faster than the population. A\ r e might benefit if more of these loans were placed in New York.”

OBITUARY. LONDON, Jan. 13. Obituary—John Lewis, \ r ice President of the Football Association. CHINESE MINE DISASTER. -4 PEKIN, Jan. 13. An explosion in a pit of the Takamatsu Colliery in Northern Kyushu resulted in one fatality, while several were slightly injured. The fire was extinguished and sixteen miners and numbers of rescuers re-entered the pit when a series of explosions occurred and they were blown to pieces. U.S.A. COAL STRIKE. NEAV YORK. January 12. A telegram from Scranton states that, Immediately upon learning that a meeting of the anthracite and the Union leaders broke off nego’s tuitions to end the coal strike to-day, the American Red Cross workers have redoubled their efforts to care for thousands of women and children, the dependents of strikers. The most serious depression in the coal areas ever known prevails, aiid has shut up hundreds of small shops in the mining towns. At the schools, soup lines are increasing. The problem of supplying fuel is becoming insurmountable, although coal is under the very feet of the householders.

The strikers, despite the suffering their families, have now asked that tlups*, maintenance men he called out of the mines. It is feared that the mines will be flooded, with attendant great property damage, and a further reduction of the prospects of a settlement of the strike. MEN Cl AN FLOODS. NEAV A’ORK, January 12. A message from Nogales, in Arizona, says: Fully two thousand persons have lost their lives, and one thousand fami- ' lies arc homeless, ns the result recent floods in the State of Nayamt, in Alexico. according to Air H. Alitcomb. the President of the Southern Pacific Railway, on his return on Tuesday from Alexico. MILLION DOLLAR THEFT. NEAV YORK, January 13. A despatch from Palm Reach, Florida. states that a theft of jewellery valued at one million dollars, from the home of George Meeker, took plaee during a dinner party at Air Meeker’s Palm Beach home on Tuesday night. PREVENTIVE OF TENTAUS. J PARIS, January 12. > Doctor Roux, Director of the Pasteur Institute, has announced to the Academy of Sciences that Doctor Ramon and Doctor Zeiller have discovered an anti-toxin giving permanent and complete immunity from tetanus. The anti-toxin is injectable, even in large doses, without ineonvefiienee, into all wounds liable to cause tentanus. Supplies of it will soon he at the disposal of medical men. GERArAN POLITICS. BERLIN. January 12. The efl’orts of the Centrists and the Democrats to organise a big CoalV^ I Lion were at an early stage shipwrecked. The Socialist Reichstag party emphatically declined to participate. It is regarded as practically certain that President Hindenburg will now ask Dr Luther to form a Government.

CANADIAN POLITICS. OTTAWA, January 12. A debate is proceeding in the Canadian House of Commons on the noconfidence motion of the Conservatives. The expectation is that the vote will be reached on Thursday or Friday. Mr Hugh Guthrie. Solicitor-General in the late Conservative Administration, announced in the House that,- it~' the Government were defeated, and a Conservative administration were formed, the latter would endeavour to. carry on from session to session without a dissolution. Mr Guthrie said he was speaking with the authority of the Conservative leader, Mr Meighan. MUSSOLINI TO UNDERGO OPERATION. ROME, Jan. 13. Signor Mussolini, tlie Premier, lias decided to undergo a dangerous operation this month. IN SYRIA. •ELECTION DISTURBANCES. * A LONDON, Jan. 13. / Coinciding with the news that Syrian rebels had declined the nesty offered them, the “Times” Beirut correspondent reports eleetioh disturbances in Aleppo, where a mob, after storming the polling stations, penetrated tlie Government buildings which were partially wrecked. Eight demonstrators were killed and a French officer and policeman wounded. A threatening situation is also developing in Homs and Hama where the elections are heing boycotted ns the result of terrorism by persons whose action M. de Jouvenel considers a cri- ./ niinal attempt to deprive the electorate of the right of voting freely. De Jouvenel has decided to apply the severest measures against the offenders, including hanging and the confiscation of property.