BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 April 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cablo Association. 1 BAGHDAD FLOOD. (Received tbis day at 11.0 a.m.) j BAGHDAD, April 13. There is a slight improvement in the Hood situation. The river is lulling | slightly, but is a desert. r i lie flood f level is stationary. The ladies oi the Royal family have departed for the n King’s estate, one hundred miles north of Baghdad. King Feisnl is tempo!nrily living in the house of a Jewish merchant at Baghdad. The damage will probably be two million sterling. ~ CHINESE AFFAIRS. PEKING, April 13. (] It has been definitely established s that TuanchijuL is taking refuge in ’ business premises in the Legation quarHo took his seal of office and sent out a warning that he would not lie responsible for mandates during his absence. DUKE OF YORK TO OPEN CANBERRA. , LONDON, April 13. The “ Graphic’s” Court correspond- c out asserts it has been virtually decided that the Duke of York will open the Parliament at Canberra, tho Duchess accompanying him. SOVIET METHODS. PARIS, April 13. 11 The South American, delegates re- n turning from the Moscow meeting, ' r sensationally announced that they had 1 seceded from tile Third Internationale. They declared that Moscow leaders > were forging huge sums of foreign money for the purpose of promoting world wide terrorism. n POORLY PAID FRENCH OFFICERS LONDON, April 13. Maurice Guillaume, editor of “ Lo Petit Journal,” in an article declares tho captains and lieutenants of tho s . Paris garrison are so miserably paid, 0 tilic amount being less than £lO month- ° ly, that they are forced to work at (>l night time as taxi-drivers and motorear washers for the purpose of supporting their families. Others are 1 working as packers in warehouses and ” learning shoemaking and tailoring. MISSING SPANISH AIRMEN. CAIRO, April If. British airmen found the missing •Spanish aoroplune, one hundred miles from Amman with a note saying the 1 occupants are proceeding to Amman on 1 foot. British airmen hope to pick ( them up later. SOCIALISTS AND COMMUNISTS. 1 HAGUE, April 13. 1 A meeting of the Executive of tho Labour Socialist International, rejected by 247 to 3 the proposal of the British Independent Labour Party for a 1 joint conference with the Moscow Communist Internationale, with a view to the formation of a United International. CHINESE INTERVIEW. PEKING, April 13. Chnngtfcolin, in an interview, stated: “My sole object in this war is to eradicate Bolshevism,from China. As soon as that is accomplished I will withdraw to my own territory, north of the Great Wall and my entire attention will henceforth tie devoted to the reconstruction and development of along lines of industry and \ pence.” Changtsolin seemed embittered against Fengvusiang. He declared he was not interested in the next Pre- ! sident of China, although a big man was needed. “I shall keep out of polities in China, my business being entirely with Manchuria.” FRENCH DEBTS 'LO BRITAIN. LONDON, April 13. The French Government will not accept the Caillaux-Churchill debt agreement as binding. M. Peret told the “Financial Times” Paris correspondent that he hoped the result of the coming Loudon negotiations, to secure more favouraide terms later, A safety clause must / also be inserted making payments dependent on. the Germnn reparations. GREEK SENTENCES. ATHENS', April 13. An extraordinary court martial sentenced to death Colonel Zavellas and Major Karnkoufn, lenders of the Karnbournou meeting and sentenced seven other officers to various terms of imprisonment.