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Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

hi’ TELEGRAPH-■-X'IIKSS .IGi.l*-4t ICIIT. THE INDIANB AT THE ( APE. DEl.fir. February 17. An anxiously awaited statement on Hie South African racial situation was made to-day in the Council of State ami toe Assembly respectively by Sir Mummied I labibullab and Mr Photo. After tracing the history of the negotiations. they announced that they had succeeded in inducing the t nioil Government to agree to refer their Asiatic Pill to a select committee betore, instead of alter, rl-,0 second reading, subject to the understanding that the Committee shall lie required to report to Parliament within such a limited period as would enable Parliament to deal with the legislation in the present session. The Select Committee would take evidence both on ill" principle and on the details of the bill.

LIBERAL CONG If ESS. LONDON. February 17. Ai the opening se-siun ol the Liberal Conference which is attended by fifteen hundred delegates, the proceeding' were marked by the cordial speeches ol the Fail of Asquith and Mr Lloyd George. Lot 1 1 ot whom will remain throughout Ike Congress. The lormoi expressed the opinion that there wa? almost a complete agreement as D principles and aims, though there must fie a rea-onafile and honest divergenei regarding the methods of approach. Mr Lloyd George appealed for the greato-t. common measure ol agreemeat an-l avoidance oi apparent division- and di--ensious. which had weakened Liberalism in the past. ( (ICXTKSS TO PE KXCLEDKD. WASHINGTON. Feb. 17. Countess Catiicnrt has been ordered (o fie excluded from I lie t'nited States by the Labour Department. Secretary Davis i- personally signing the order. The to apply to the New York District Court for habeas corpus writ. A Y.VLANCH K CASE A I .TIES. WASHINGTON. Feb. 18. The death list of the nvalanelie victims had readied 23 late on Wednes-

day. with oil missing. Sixteen injured have keen rescued from ill: 1 debris. it noru week sri:ike. YANCOFYKP. February 17. Twelve thousand furriers are on strike lor the forty-four hour week. MOPE ATLANTIC STOP.MS. LONDON. February IS. There has been a renewal of the great gales. This lias brought it hatch of thrilling sea stories. The liner .Manchester Producer ball! en drifting helplessly in mid-Atlan-tic for a fortnight. Four vessels successively attempted her towage. Each time the hawser was broken. A filth ve-.-cl is now standing by. The crew of eleven of the steam trawler Tenby Castle, have lor three days been mutinied as 10-t. They have been discovered to be alive and well on an island n(f the Irish Const. The schooner Useful. bound from Bidiford for Glasgow, has been driven ashore in Solway Firth, after terrible experiences. Her -ails were torn lo shreds. The crew were without food for sixty hours. Their hands were lacerated. They burned their clothing vainly signalling, and one man, Denis O’l.eaiy. died wilfiin a hundred yards of the land, hi- body being lashed to the deck. COW APPLY THIEVES. POME. February 18. Thieves, disguised as shepherds, al Chiarmonli. Sardinia, wined out a family of six people. The tliieveknockfd at the door of Signor T elide, a well-to-do fanner, and while lie was giving them a meal, according tu the traditional rule of hospitality, they stabbed him in the back. M lien his wife and four children rail into the kitchen they ;:Imi were stabbed. the thieves decamped with Tcdde’s money, 'flic police are in hot pursuit.

BISHOP ON MODERNISM. (Received this day at 9.30 a.mA LONDON. February 18. '• Paris of the Bible must go. Science's slartling and revolutionary discoveries have given a succession of the rudest shocks to orthodoxy, which prevent its acceptance as an infallible historical document.,” said the Pev. Gore, the frail and white-haired septuagenarian ex-Bishop ot Oxtord. preaching at -St. Paul's in defence ol religion against .sceptical intellectuals and doubling philosopher-. The Pev. Gore, continuing, said:

We are living in an age ol disillusion, discouragement and cynicism. Me must lace the task of disentangling L bristiiiuity Irom anliquatcd ideas; nevertheless, we must not go 100 far. A mass of intellectual people to-dav arc deluded and dominated by revolutionary modernists. Iraditional theology certainly needs revision and some traditions must be abandoned, but the extent of abandonment is grossly exaggerated. There is a middle way between the fundamentalists and the radical modernists. Iho horrible and abominable canker should be rooted up.” JAP POLITICS. TOE 10. February IS. The Kemseikal and Sei.vuhonto parties have agreed to a compromise on the Reform Tariff Rill, which virtually results in no dissolution of the Diet.

AUSTRIA AND ITALV. VIENNA. February 18. The Chancellor. Mr Untuck, informed the Foreign Affairs Committee, that in replv to the Austrian Minister’s representations. .Mussolini had stated that in his speech on the 7th February he did not intend to alarm Austria. He meant only that Italy would never consent to a union of Austria and Germany or any alteration of the post-war condition. Mussolini added the assurance that no Italian troops would cross lirenner. M. Rnmsk declared that in view of .Mussolini’s explanation Austria would not refer the threats to the League. He hoped the tone of the Fascist Government and the press would he moderated. AMBULANCE AEROPLANE CRASH. LONDON, Feb. 18. A message from Casablanca states an ambulance aeronlane, while convoying a native trooper to the hospital crashed and broke into flames, incinerating the pilot, mechanic, trooper and army doctor. THE ROCTvFEIJ.ER OFFER. CAIRO. Feb. II). It. is understood Mr John ltockfellcr’s of For is conditional upon an international nrchnelogicnl body directing .the museum and the research institute lor thirty years whereafter everything reverts to the Egyptian Government. Air Rock feller’s lawyer has gone from New York to Cairo to explain Air Rockfeller’s attitude to the Egyptian Government. NAVAL OIL TANKS. LONDON, Eel*. 10.

In the House of Commons in reply to questions Sir AV. TT. Davison (Undersecretary Admiralty) said he anticipated the naval oil tanks being constructed at Trineomnli (Ceylon) would be completed in April. He added that oil fuel would only be available for merchant ships in cases of emergency,