BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1926, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

[Reuter Telegrams.]

EX-KA ISER’S BIRTHDAY. AMSTERDAM, January 20

The Dutch authorities refused to allow the ex-Crown Prince of Germany to visit his father al Doom oil the occasion of the latter's sixty-seventh birthday. This unexpected decision contradicts the premisxinii granted previously and the ex-Kaiser is disappointed at what he calls ridiculous interference with a mere birthday reception. It is suggested in certain quarters that the Allied Government intervened to prevent the visit.

PRINCE'S HORSE DROPS DEAD LONDON, January 28.

- The Prime of Whiles \v;is hunting with the Bclvoir hounds when his horse dropped dead under him. The Prince wsa uninjured. ITALY’S POPULATION. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) ROMK, January 28. The census shows the population of Italy as 42,115,000, an increase of three millions as compared with 1021. .Milan leads the list of cities with 2.000,000. Nalpcs and Home have 1.500.000. Turin I ..‘500,000, while Omni Florence and linri are under one million. (II FT TO LA IlOt'll. (Received this dnv at 0.4 > a nil LONDON. Jan. 20. The Countess of Warwick has presented to the Labour Party her mansion. Easton Lodge, Essex. which is s.,i rounded by one thousand acres oi nun. where it. has been decided to e*taoiis.t a Labour College. FA MOPS SUFFRAGETTE RETURNS. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) LONDON. Jan. 28. Airs Pankhur.st. non over swveiity vrars of age, has returned to London on a visit from Canada. She says she is now a naturalised Canadian and more of an Imperialist, than ever. Questioned regard inn the result oi votes for women, she said: “Wo thought a miracle was going to hap-

pen. All Reformers think that we thought the vote was going to bring Utopia, hut they left human nature out of the question. Still, women have the vote, and Lho resL is lor them.” - SIR R. S. BROWN S ESTATE.

LONDON, Jan. 28. •Sir Robert Charles Brown left £70,1)74 nett. Me bequeathed to the CamBridge I'niver.sity Research Hospital £100(1, together with Ids body, requesting it to keep any organs dcsiicd; also the ashes after Iho cremation of the remainder, lie added: “I believe in the resurrection of the dead and life of a world to come; that when the body dies the spill will go to heaven where it .shall he allowed in intensified form those pleasures enjoy‘ I on earth, and where there is no death ■sorrow crime or pain. 1 believe ih.it Christ's death on the cross made atonement foi my sins.” MR CHURCHILL ALLOWED WIDE LATITUDE. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) LONDON. Jan. 28. An atmosphere id’ great cordiality marked the conclusion of the Italian debt negotiations. The total debt In Britain was CGI 1,000,000 against which Signor Y’olni claimed a refund of twenty two millions sterling, for gold deposited in Loudon during the war. .Mr Churchill, al the ceremony of ■signing the agreement, declared Unit Cabinet had allowed him wide latitude in order to give con-ideral ion to Aliglo-Ilnlian friendship. It is noteworthy Dial the agree-

niont is in nowise mixed up with the reparaiTons. A clause in the agreement, protects Hiilian ettrreney in the event of abnormal depreciation, title to the payments of debts abroad, while in the event of Britain re oiving more' from repatriations and Allied debts than she lias paid to America. Italy's share of such .surplus will be credited against future payments. Afi' Churchill in the course of an interview, however, said Britain, up to the present, bad paid one 'hundred millions .sterling and received twenty five millions from reparations, while so far untiling bad come from war debts.

BRITAIN’S TRADE IAII’ROVIXG. LONDON, fliin. 28. Alluding nt Sunderland to the portents of trade improvement. Mr Baldwin said that since the imposition of the silk duties fifty new silk companies had heon registered in Britain, while many Continental firms had arranged and built factories in Britain, which, alter America, is the largest producer of artificial silk in the world. SICILY'S BLACK HAND. ROMIO, Jan. 28. Premier .Mussolini has ordered the eradication of Sicily’s Black Hand Secret Society of Thieves, named Malia which is over-running the island, and enforcing their own laws. The society is responshile for revolting crimes. A DELICATE SITUATION. BRITAIN AND FRANCK CONI'KR. PARIS. Jan. 28. Sir A. Chamberjain and M.-Briand are conferring on a delicate situation which is the outcome of the alleged German iufringments ol the Locarno Disarmament understanding, relating to the armed frontier police. Germany says that their demobilisation i; relayed pending the decisions of the Ambassadors’ Conference. BARON KATO’S DEATH. TOKIO. January 28. Baron Kalo developed pneumonia on ■Wednesday night. Tile Baron was untiring in his devotion to duty despite medical advice and this resulted in over-strain, leaving him no reserve strength to combat his illness. The Cabinet has formally resigned. M. Wakatsuki succeeds Baron ICnto ; in the presidency and the Kensni Kai Cjovornment Party.