BRITISH S FOREIGN HEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1926, Page 2

BRITISH S FOREIGN HEWS

| Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] A PATHETIC RACE. LONDON, Feb. 28. It is regarded as most likely that Mr Tribitsch Lincoln, who has been delayed owing to monetary difficulties, . will reach. England in time for tlitTexecution of his son, who has lieen sentenced to death for shooting a brewery traveller in the latter’s garden, after Lincoln and a companion met him returning when they were leaving his house. The announcement of the father’s return to England followed upon a most dramatic story of tho father’s dash against the clock all tho way from Ceylon where he has latterly been a Buddhist novitiate. Ho landed at Marseilles on Sunday, and is expected to reach Paris on Monday, an ( ] possibly will reach London late on Monday afternoon. Should there he any hitch in the arrangements, his dramatic race may lie, fruitless, unless the execution of his son is postponed. Tribitsch Lincoln, who was formerly a British ALP., was met at Marseilles by a representative of the British Consulate. who related the rigid conditions v attaching to any spy’s landing in England. Lincoln will be met by members of Scotland Yard, and will he under police supervision tlie whole time. Immediately after seeing his soil, he must accompany the officer to an unnamed port for deportation again. BRITISH COAL COM A ID'S I OX'S REPORT. LONDON. Feb. 28. The momentous report of the Alining Commission is expected to appear during the coming week. Tho Labourites devoted their usual Sunday speeches to the discusson of v _ the possibilities of a conflict. Mr Cook (Miners’ Secretary) said that, until Alay, lie would work night and day for peace. He believed that they were going to win the greatest victory in the annals of labour, and h? hoped if would be without a struggle ; hut he warned the Government and the coal owners that if they started a struggle, it would he the end of capitalism. Tho railwayinen’s leader, Air Cramp, speaking at Nuneaton, sad:—“lf an attempt is made to reduce the standard of living of the miners, they (the miners) will receive the united support of a!i the trade unions.” Nevertheless, he sad. unlike some of his friends, lie did not foresee the inevitability of a . .■ • V great crisis. SAHARA -MOTORISTS SAFE. PARIS, February 2 The missing automobile expedition, after a three days’ terrible ordeal in a sandstorm, was forced to shelter beneath the cars. They arrived at Adrar in the .middle of the Sahara, and have proceeded to TimOuetoo. COMPULSORY VOTING. J.ON DON, February 25.5 i. Lord llurnhaiu lias given notice in tlie House of Lords, asking whether the Government, will create a Select Committee to inquire into the desirableness of adopting a system of compulsory voting. A 1 ESSO LINES AIAfS. BOYCOTT OF ITALY URGED. VIENNA, Feb. 28. Speeches urgng a boycott of Italian goods and of the tourist traffic to Italy were made at a demonstration at Ruthaus, organised by a League , named after the Tryolese patriot Aildreas Holer. Attempts to hold a demonstration outside Parliament and the Chancellor’s residence wore provented by tlie police.

LONDON, Feb. 28. Messages front Belgrade states that as the result of recent negotiations for an Italian-Jugoslav defensive pact the agreement has practically lieen completed, aiming to prevent* a German thrust to southward.

’A “ Daily News ” correspondent says: “ Signor Mussolini’s latest antiGerman tirade is interpreted as an at- | tempt to mobilise the opinion of all the border States against Germany, so | as to prevent an Austro-Oerman Union in Central Europe. FRANCK WELL OFF. LONDON, March 1. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Paris correspondent says: It is a strange paradox that a country whose industry is at 11 feverish pitch of prosperity has its national finances in confusion. 111 whatever direction it turns, the Government finds itself baffled in its efforts to make the country pay its way, but Ike vast industrial structure of France, raised in recent years, cannot be kept going when the pinch comes unless France restores her credit. The industrial structure has been raised largely h.v the aid of a depreciated currency. The present prosperity is amazing. Not a single Frenchman or woman is oil v the dole. The demand for manual labour is so great tliat France is l>ecoining a great field for immigrants. She now has thirteen million visitors. The extent of the. building operations is amazing. Happily, the French natioif seems to sec a danger signal, but at present. France’s position is comparable with Germany’s when the mark nose-dived, over-inflated, and burst like a bubble.

PARIS, Feb. 28. The Senate adopted by 270 to 211 the entire Finance Bill which was returned to the Chamber.

Both Houses adopted provincial credits for March, amounting to three milliards francs, necessitated owing to the delay in passing tiie budget.