BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

U' TELEGRAPH—I-RESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. PLANES FOR AUSTRALIA. LONDON, Feb. 7. The first of six amphibian flying boats being built in England for the Australian air service were launched at the Super-Marine Aviation Works at Southampton. The machine is a Su-per-Marine Napier, named “Seagull 1” and will fie shipped in a few months to carry out a survey of the Great Barrier Reef. SOVIET PRESS INDIGNANT, MOSCOW, February 6. Soviet- newspapers are indignant regarding the attack on Soviet couriers in Latvian territory. The papers say eye-witnesses confirm tlio organised nature of the attack. They point out that the assailants definitely sought out the couriers. The “Isvestia” complains that- the Latvian Government’s official statement regarding the affair is an attempt to direct the course of inquest on the courier wlio was killed, along a previously planned false channel.

COAI.MUNISTS XOT WAXTED. LONDON, Feb. 8. A conference of the London and Southern Counties Division of the Independent Labour Party in connection with the proposal to include the Communist Party in the Labour movement was defeated by 86 to 27. CYCLONE DESTROYS TOWN. PARIS, Feb. 8. A cyclone entirely destroyed the town of Vapomandry on the east coast of Madagascar. ROTOR SHIP A FAILURE. BERLIN, Feb. 8. Herr Flettner’s rotor ship “Biicau” is a definite failure. When auctioned it did not elicit a hid. HOSPITAL DISASTER. . ETHER FUAIES CAUSE FIRE. LONDON, Fell. 8. During an operation in the Atansfield Hospital, a nurse’s skirt overturned a bottle of ether. The fumes spread to a fire fourteen feet distant, and an explosion followetl. The ward was quickly in flames. Two of the patients jumped out of their beds and escaped, and the doctors and nurses seized the bed on which a young miner was unsconcious under the anaesthetic, and rushed out of the ward, hut the miner was so badly burned on the head and face that he died.

The fire was put out by a hospital lioso pipe. SIR A. AIOND. LONDON, Feb. 8. The Caermarthen Unionists have invited Sir Alfred Alond to become their candidate. LOXDON, Feb. 8. The “Daily Express” Geneva correspondent states, the negotiations aiming at Russo-Swiss conciliation, have broken down. The Soviet maintains its humiliating conditions for attendance at any conference in Switzerland. The disarmament conference may, therefore, tie held at Evian-les-Bains (France) as without Russia the conference is useless. lALAIODEST DRESS. FREXCH CATHOLIC’S SUGGESTION PARIS, Feb. 8. Catholics are advocating the esablishmeut of a Catholic school for style, combining elegance and charm as an antidote to the present immodest fashions. It is suggested that as most of the world’s styles emanate from Paris, the new school would lie most influential. Bishop Guimper suggests -that if Catholic Frenchwomen are determined to return to greater propriety, costumers would be bound to follow. A Catholic French fight for modesty

would soon be effective throughout the world. RUSSIAN DICTATORSHIP. PARIS. Feb. 8. A Zurich message states the dictatorship of AI. Stalin in Soviet Russia, is now complete. He is hailed as the new Lenin. Zinovieff, Trotsky and Madame Lenin are now back numbers, who are protesting against their treatment. Trotsky was only offered the choice of the Commissnrshlp of Finances, or the presidency of the Third International. Zinovieff is reported to be under arrest.