BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

(Australia & N.Z. Gable Association.} EFFECT OF WOMEN TEACHERS. LONDON, April 6. Protesting at a schoolmasters’ conference at Hull against women teaching boys, a delegate, Mr Graves, of Leeds, said that when a man teacher saw devilment in a boy he also saw divinity, but a woman thought he was really a devil. When she thought she was making boys angels she was really making them prigs. Young boys would be rather cuffed by a man than cuddled by a woman. MURDERS AT CAIRO. CAIRO, April fi. An extraordinary case of convicts committing one murder and attempting another for the purpose of drawing attention to their alleged ill-treat-ment in prison, occurred when a lorry 1 was carrying a hundred convicts* to flfc / the Delta Gaol. Pandemonium reigned in the street when three prisoners \ cut the throat of a companion. The bystanders’ horror was increased when in tho ensuing confusion, a number of manacled convicts succeeded in scrambling to the roadway. In tho subsequent melee, a guard was severely slashed in the face. Three assailants used the knife, which had been pre-nrrnngedly concealed in a loaf handed to them as the lorry passed the railway station when they were en route to the gaol after examination at Cairo in respect to the murder of a fellow convict in gaol in order to draw attention to certain alleged grievances. AIAR.IT IAIE CONFER ENCE. BRUSSELS, April 6. Sixteen countries wore represented at the opening of the international maritime conference. M. Yandervelde, in the inaugural address, emphasised the need for unity of maritime law. The conference would, inter alia, examine the conventions regarding tho rules in case of collisions, and mutual assistance by ships and also ill connection with ships mortgages and bills of lading; and, furthermore, the question of immunity of State owned vessels, in which connection the conference must decide whether it was possible to retain the old legal conceptions. ANCIENT FINDS. CAIRO, April fi. Miss Clayton, of the Thompson, archaelogical expedition to Northern Fayoum, discovered at Cliindi, ill a depression a few miles from the modern cultivated zone, twenty buried baskets made of wheat stalks, containing wheat blackened with age, and a wooden sickle with three flints, proving to belong to the Libyan flint age, five thousand years before Christ, and two thousands years earlier than the previous discoveries. SOCIALIST ATTACKED. LONDON, April fi. The “Daily Herald’s” correspondent in Italy says that Signor Afodigliani, the Italian Socialist leader, was walking at Naples with his wife and l daughter, when a Fascist gang attacked and heat him until lie was stream- [ iug with blood. They even heat the ; wife who tried to defend the husband. , Afodigliani’s condition is critical. Ho is • specially hated because ho was counsel : for Afatteotti’s widow. \ r FASCIST STRUGGLE. a : LONDON, April 5. “i i Another version of the Fascist Party 3 struggle is that Signor Federzoni leads ? the steadily growing Nationalist Wing, which, if it supplants Mussolini, will not he one whit less imperialist. The “Daily Express” Rome correspondent Istates: A •lema.r'kabrei ceremony will take place on Thursday i aboard the battleship flavour, in which Alussolini is going to Tripoli. All the Provincial Secretaries of Fascism will voyage oil the warship from Civita. Veechia to Gaota, a distance of 150 miles. During the voyage, Alussolini will introduce the new directorate of Fascism to the Secretaries, and make an important announcement of policy. He hopes that the circumstances of tile voyage will assist in impressing tho officials with tho greatness of Italy. TAX ON BEER. BERLIN, April 6. The price of beer has been responsible for the first conflict since the in- t auguration of the Dawes scheme be- f tween the German Government and Sir - Andrew MrFadyean, the Commissioner of the controlled German revenues, who has objected to a compromise in the Budget that has been adopted by the Reichstag, by which any increase of tlie beer tax is to lie postponed till January of 1927. He objects on the ground that the postponment might lead to a. deficit in tlie controlled revenues next year, when Germany lias to meet heavy reparation payments. Sir Andrew McFndyean lias agreed however, to a postponement till tho first of July, but tlie German Government proposes to submit the dispute to international arbirntion as provided by the London agreement. AfAY DAY. LONDON, April 7. The British, French and Belgian .leaders have signed the International i Federation of'Trade Unions’ .May Day , .Manifesto, ufeoiaring:—“European statesmen still refuse to discard the wartime mentality; are still unable to evolve an international policy of social reconstruction ; and are still fomenting international hatreds, which menace world peace, and are a hindrance to *”

the workers’ economic security.” "It adds: “Only strong action by a united Labour Movement can save us from politiacl hatreds and economic ruin. Let the workers on May Day demand a universal eight-hours day, the recognition of tho workers’ right to share in industrial control, and true, lasting world peace.” NEW GUINEA LAND. LONDON, April 7. The "Financial Times” understands that the tender of two millions sterling has been made to the Commonwealth Government on behalf of an influential British syndicate, comprising important shipping and financial interests, Fa tho British New Guinea plantations preprinted from the German enemy .’".7 war time. £ The “Financial Times” adds that other tender of £2,150.000 has lieea . submitted from another source, which , is believed to lie acting on behalf of a German group. S The paper adds that should these ■ properties lie acquired by the British f syndicate, the flotation of a public company is likely to follow, in which case the undertaking will he easily the largest plantation proposition of tho kind ever presented to the public for support. The biggest exisiting company of a similar nature, it says, is that of tho Angle-Dutch plantations of Java, owning 212.021 acres of land, of which 63.878 acres are under cultivation. The writer in the "Financial Times” gives the area of the New Guinea properties as 430,000 acres, of which the \ arear under cultivation is unknown, , but it was estimated in 1920 that the aggregate value of tho properties amounted to about four millious.