BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1926, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cablo Association. 1

SUFFERING WOMEN AND CHILDRUN. LONDON, Feb. 20

Mr Havelock Wilson has instituted an appeal for help for the dependents of the seamen who were concerned in the recent shipping strike, more cseci;dlv those who left their ships in Dominion ports, resulting in otei file thosand families being deprived of the means of support. Mr Wilson asserts that the strikers in Sydney were assured that lunds would lie’provided for their'wives and families, hut many of these wives and children are still without support. The committee of King George's Fund has given £t,OOO. and the Seamen’s Union £1,001). WORLD REVOLUTION. A SOVIET REVIEW. (Received this day at 9.30 a.mA RIGA. February 23. The Bolsheviks are apparently ill no manner discouraged at the failure of their attempts to provoke revolutions in Germany. Bulgaria and Esthonia, according to M. Zinoviefl, who. in addressing the sixth congress of the Communist International at Moscow, said that although the situation in the Balkans had apparently stabilised, ho still hopefully regarded them as a source pregnant with sudden happenings which might be fatal to capitalism. Europe still held first place in flu' International's plans lor a world revolution. The East came second and America third.

Zinoviclf lengthily discussed the revolutionary development ol tho British working (lasses and enlarged on the prospects of severing the links between the Dominions and the .Motherland. labour LEADERS SUING FOR damages. (Received this day at 11.0 n.m.) LONDON. Feh. 28. Air Cook, the minors’ Secretary, has issued a writ against the Duke of Northumberland, claiming damages, and all apology as the result of the Duke of Northumberland's speech at Birmingham declaring that Cook v.as a Third |nl..riiational Representative on the .Miners’ Federation Executive. Cook strenuously denies this and says his orders come from the British miners and from nobody else. He has no coiinr.'etiou with the Third International. Mr John Wheatley, who was .Minister of Health in the MacDonald Cabinet. is claiming £9OOO damages for -lander from the publishers of the Glasgow "Eastern Argus.” also £3OOO from Mr Miller, his political opponent, in connection with a Letter published in the “Argus," allegedly charging him with dishonesty, crookedness, and meanness and displaying an excessive interest in a convicted coiner's action. Then follows Mr Wheatley's challenge of £IOO9 to anyone to publish the unfounded rumours which are circulating in Glasgow.

ARRESTED CDALAI UNISTS. (Received this clay at 11.0 a.m.) RIGA. Fell. 28. Among I lie eleven Communists arrested hy the Latvian police two were allegedly specially sent- by the Communist International from Moscow for the purpose of . re-organising revolutionary activities. Besides (he forged passports, correspondence with ihe International. was allegedly found in (heir possession. AN F.XI’FDII lON'S KATE. FAR IS. Feh. 23. The Government automobile expedition from Timbuetoo. which is attempting a record four days dash across the Sahara, is believed to have been exterminate tlhy lhe Riffs, no news having been received since 22nd. February. DAY OF MOURNING. BERLIN, Feb. 28. To-day was observed throughout Germany as a day of mourning for the war dead. President Hindcnbiirg and the Government issued a joint manifesto declaring that the German people cannot he destroyed, provided they remain united and loyal. All Hags were half-masted and the theatres and places of amusem.ent are closed. .Memorial services were held. The Socialists and Democrats simultaneously observed th? anniversary of the death of President Ebort. PURCHASED FOR PARK. LONDON, February 28. The "Daily Mail” states Lord Rothrrmere ns a memorial to Ids mother, has purchased for £ Ido. 000 the site of the famous Rethlehem mental hospital, for conversion into a pornia iit'ii t fourteen-acre playground and park in the heart of the Southward slums. The hospital was removed to Paddington in 1921. MUSSOLINI’S WARNING. NOTHING CHANGED IN GERMANY (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) PARIS, February 23.

•' I.c Petit Parisien ’’ interviewed Mussolini, who declared his speech of the Tib was the act of a responsible statesman drawing attention to the unsuspected peril. He was sending thousands of Italian ex-servicemen for the purpose of thickly populating Adige in order to combat the pan-German menace. Nothing had changed ill Germane. -Militarv reviews continue and

preparation is going on everywhere. Aviation, ostensibly civilian, was being developed and perfected. Railway militia had been re-established which means that 'the general stall' is again in control of the railways. The possibility of a common danger should bring France and Italy together, their SO millions of population equalling the

German bloc and thus establishing a, balance of masses. -Mussolini slippoorts Poland’s application for membership of the Council. Otherwise. Germany will later bargain for concessions such as the evacuation of occupied territories and the obtaining ol colonial mandates.

CO f ,OX IAI, X EM'S P A P E R S. LONDON. Feb. 23.

The newspapers of Australia and New Zealand have made it their proudest boast that they are written and published after the model of British newspapers, declared Lord Burnham, presiding at the annual meeting of the Newspapers Press Fund. Australians and New Zealanders took the British standards as their own and British practices as those best adapted to the British world.

BRITISH FILM ORGANISATION. LONDON, Eel>. "8,

With a view to promoting the development ot British tilms dealing with the achievement of ideas and ideals of the British Commonwealth of Nations and stimulating interest in pictures representing all classes ot life throughout the Empire, an organisation has been formed entitled " The British Empire Film Institute."