BRITISH & FOREIGN HEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN HEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] GERMAN ROYALTY’S PROPERTY. BERLIN, Alarch 24. * According to provisional official figures twelve and u-luilf million people signed the demand for a plebiscite whether the property of the ox-rulers should he confiscated without compensation. Fifty per cent, of tho total electorate, or about twenty millions, must vote for tho plebiscite, but it is doubtful whether this figure will ho reached.

N.S.W. LOAN. LONDON, March 25. The financial papers expect the underwriters in London will he obliged to take up a portion of the New South Wales Loan. LEFT AVITH UNDERWRITERS. LONDON, March 25. Seventy per cent, of tlie N.S.W. loan has been left with the Underwriters. CTRL lAIAIIGRANTS. LONDON, Alarcli 24. The first party of twelve girl immigrants for New Zealand under a scheme organised by the slieepowners will sail by the lonic on Alarch 20. PEDDLING STATE SHIPS. LONDON, Alarch 25. After Mr Calkins’ return from Egypt, a hitch occurred in the negotiations to sell the Egyptian Government’s two “D ” and two of the “ E ” class of the Commonwealth ships. It-r-i ~ apparently owing to the competition of the sellers of second-hand ships, but the negotiations have been broken off. A RO At ANTI C CLAIM. [“Sydney Sun” Cables.] (Received this day at 9.30 a.ni.) j LONDON, Alarch 26. < A romantic suit involving £25,000 deposited in a London bank in 1906, by AT. Cabrera, president of Guatemala, who, after the revolution, died in prison, has been commenced. The Guatemalan Government claims tho money, declaring that Cabrera acted on behalf of the Republic. - _ Cabrera’s son, "Estrad, is the defendant and asserts tho Government’s claim is based on documents his father signed in prison under threats of death.

Counsel said he did not wislhto endanger international relations, but plaintiffs could not he trusted an inch. >, AVhen Astrad went to Guatemala to his father’s funeral, he was arrested with a view to ending the dispute, hut ho escaped. The Judge declimle to appoint a Cbmmission to take evidence in Guatemala. and adjourned the hearing till 4th Alay to onahlo witnesses to ho brought to England. THE AI ATTEOTTI SENTENCES. ROME, Alardb 25. Duim'ni, A’olpi and Poveromo were sentenced to six years’ imprisonment, of which four years is remitted under : the recent amnesty. They awaited their trial for twenty-one months so their neLt imprisonment amounts to eighty-two days. SENTENCED TO DEATH. TOKIO, A l arch 25. The Korean convicted of the plot to bomb the Emperor during the earthquarke excitement of 1923, and his Japanese mistress were sentenced to death.