BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1926, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association/ QUICK DIVORCE. LONDON, Dec. 8. In a. divorce action at Birmingham Assizes, in which Mrs .Margaret .Mary Howard, a milliner, of .Birmingham, was granted a decree nisi, it was stated that respondent and a woman were found together on October 27, the. case was entered on November 14. and beard at the present asizes, the whole matter having taken only live weeks to complete.

DANCE. EMBARGO. LONDON. 2. The “Daily Express's” I’aris eonvspomlent states: Signor Mussolini, Premier of Italy, following on General Pan "a Io«, the Greek Premier’s aetion in Greeee. has closed one thousand dance halls in Italy as sinks of iniquity and nests of corruption. <s Only private and family danoes are to lie permitted in Italy henceforth, and only persons over sixteen years of age will lie allowed to dance at even JJRi these Katherines.

RADIO TO SHIPS. LONDON, Feh. 7. liv the Rugby Wireless Station a service to ships outside the range of the smaller stations has been inaiigucd at 18d per word. Journalists assembled at the Post Ofli(<o in London, sent a message of greeting to their countrymen aboard ships throughout the world, and standing beside a loud speaker, they beard the Rugby Station’s .Morse broadcast the message at almost the same instant as the message was transmitted from London over eighty miles of land lines. It is considered that the message will reach the farthest ships in Australian and New Zealand waters. A steamer in the Dutch East Indies has already acknowledged the message. GAMBLING PROFITS. "London, Feb. i. The Paris correspondent of the “Daily Express” says: “The French gambling resorts have bad a bumper year, their profits totalling two million sterling, of which the Treasury receives £1.192,01)0 in taxation, exclusive of the regular taxes paid by the Casinos as business concerns. British and foreign gamblers contributed most of the mouev.

FRENCH COMMUNISTS. 'PARIS. Feh. 1

A Communist Deputy, M. .Martby. and the manager of the newspaper “Ifuinanite,” M. Berlanger. have been sentenced in default to respectively ten mouths 1 imprisonment and a line of three thousand francs. M. Semester was fined one thousand francs. They woro charged with inciting to murder by an article in “llumanite” headed “Hell in The Navy!” TURKISH ATROCITIES. BRITISH ALLEGATIONS. LONDON. Feh. I. Under the heading “The Unspeakable Turk Again” tho “Daily Chronicle” publishes a first instalment of four columns from a special correspondent in Iraq, who declares; “The I.aidoncr report, presented at Geneva, touched only the fringe of the subject. The policy of the Turks continues in the spirit of “Abdul the Damned,” namely the extermination of all Christian populations throughout Asia .Minor. If the original frontier line north of Iraq, is claimed by tho British bad been accepted, there would not have been this fresh chapter of Turkish atrocities to record. Villagers have been forcibly thrown from their homes and deported, money confiscated, and lives in many cases'forfeited. Their women folk have been dishonoured. Details and proofs are promised in future articles,”

EARL GREY’S RESIDENCE BURNT

(Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, February 2. A fire early this morning destroyed

>be riain building of Earl Gre.v’s palatial residence. Howiek House. »l Leslutry, Northumberland. Two wings are intact. A quantity of furniture and pictures was saved, but the fate ol the valuable library and many art treasures is so far unknown.

THE COLOR LINE. (Received this dav at 12 noon). CAPETOWN, Eeb. 2. The Color Bar Bill debarring natives following skilled occupations in the mines and certain industries was read a second time by 08—46. At a mass meeting of natives at —A Johannesburg, the speakers threatened a general strike of natives if the .Premier’s segregation policy was adopted.

CHINESE LEAGUE. PEKING, Fob. 2. The Constitutional Defence f-cngiio, formerly organised at Shanghai, with the object of promoting international opposition to the principles of the Third International and Communist League will educate public opinion to ensure social and economic industrial progress on constitutional lines, including the amelioration of the condilions of life and labour of Chinese. A general committee contains representatives of fourteen nations, including Chinese. A DENI AL. LONDON. February 2. Tate denies lie has accepted a coaching appointment in New Zealand. The report came as a complete surprise. ]|c admitted he bad been tentatively approached, but even if he were definitely invited, he was not certain whether he would be able to accept.