BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS,

Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1926, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS,

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association

THE MOST WICKED THINGS. LONDON, -March 31. Over three thousand children and' young people of an English City wero asked to make a list of the most wicked things anyone can do. Drinking had the greatest effect on the majority, particularly those in the slum areas. A complete record ol wicked things included marrying for money, owning slum property, bobbed hair, kissing hoys, selling quack medicine', cheeking policemen, digging with elbows, wearing reducing corsets and attracting male attention. JAPANESE POLITICS. TOKIO, March 30. M. Sougoku has tendered his resignation and Premier Wakatsuki is considering reorganising the Cabinet. TRIAL AS SIRES. PARIS, March 30. The three alleged English spies whose arrest was cabled on January 2tith and their two women accomplices, have been committed for trial on the charge of having collected, or attempted to collect, int'orimition regarding tho security of the country. A PLANT DISCOVERED. LONDON. March 31. Eighteen barrels and boxes of gelignite and cordite, three thousand bombs, ten thousand detonators. a quantity of revolvers and small ammunition, bomb making moulds and a printing press ivere among tho contents of a (lump seized at King Street, Dublin, the biggest discovery of war material ever made in Dublin.

AN AWARD. LONDON, March 31. The Royal Geographical Soeitv ha: awarded the Founders’ Medal to Colo nel Norton for leadership of the Ml. Everest Expedition in 1924. PRINCESS’S CONDITION. LONDON. -March 31. A bulletin says that Princess Victoria slept for some hours. Her temperature remains high ami the eonlitinll of her heart is unchanged, hut :cr cough is less troublesome. ADM f RAT/IY APPOINTM ENT. LONDON, March 31. The Admiralty announces the aplointinent is approved of Rear-Admiral iVilliam R. Napier, as first naval lnem.ier of the Royal Australian Navy loan I. in succession to Rear-Admiral lall-T fioinpson. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. [Reuter Telegrams.] (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) LONDON. March 31. Hugh Daly, charged with throwing M explosive missile at a dinner given iy the Four Provinces of Ireland Club m March 20th.. was committed for rial. A woman diner who was sitting icar Baldwin, gave evidence that the nissilo struck her cheek, fell on the able, then on Hie floor anil hurst into ames. Her evening dress was badly unit, Inn she was unhurt.

AEROPLANE FATALITY. LONDON. March 31. News from Malta slates while piloting a naval aeroplane, Lieut. Bryan landed on an aircraft carrier. The aeiopliine tell over the side of the vessel and sank. Neither the body nor the machine has been recovered. BRITISH FINANCE. LONDON, March 31. Foreign. Colonial and Dominion services estimates lor the forthcoming financial year are £7,088,000 a nett decrease of £297,Ob’D. Colonial services decreased by £004,000 but. overseas settlement estimates have risen by £487,00!), principally owing to grants under the Empire Settlement Act. .Empire marketing fund is allocated at £500,000. FRENCH POLITICS. (Received, this dav at 11.0 a.m.) PARIS, March 31. The Socialist Party has decided not to vote against the Government, but to abstain from voting when a motion of confidence is proposed, in order licit to provoke a Ministerial crisis. It is believed this decision will assure the Government a majority in the Chamber on the Finance Bill including the much criticised increase' of the turnover tax. The Chamber resumed the debate on tho Government’s financial proposals and adopted the poll tax without division, with certain amendments, including the authorising ol persons exempt from the old poll tax to make a voluntary donation of a minimum of twenty francs, thus enabling French people at home and m Die colonies practically to demonstrate tlieir patriotism.

PECULIAR EIRE DISASTER

[Reuter Telegrams.]

(Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, March .‘U Three men and three women were killed at ft fire in a mansion in the (’unlock district. County Dublin, early this morning. The lire has mysterious features. The fire brigade and the police found the doors of the blazing house locked and bolted, and u» six bodies within. One ~f the victims, a man servant, was terribly injured, and it is believed, according to one account, to lie due to a bullet, and according to another, due probably to a falling beam. Other victims are two brothers, two sisters and a maid servant.

AIRSHIP POLICY. LONDON, March 31. hi the House of Commons, Sir R. Hoare answered in the. affirmative to a question whether the matter ol airship policy would he submitted to the Imperial Conference.

CHINESE PIRATES HONG KONG, -March 31

The Chinese merchant steamer. Hong Kong, en route from Shanghai to Canton, was pirated by a gang of armed nitn disguised as passengers. They herded and hound all the other passengers, stripped them of money and valuables, and loaded the loot, valued at alxnit C 12,000 sterling, into fishing boats awaiting them near Bins Bay. a notorious pirate base near Hong Kong. Many of the passengers ’ were immigrants from Anitiricn with substantial savings.