BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] SPANISH AIRMAN FOUND. CAIRO, April 18. A British flying officer Coghiii found Estevez forty miles from his machine with his feet blistered and slightly septic, otherwise his condition was fair. - Estevez was conveyed by aeroplane to t'lie nearest medical station. The mechanic was found twenty-five miles from Estevez and ho will be similarly transported for attention if Ilia condition permits. It is still a mystery how both subsisted. A SOVIET CLAIM. [“ The Times ” Service.] LONDON, April 18. The “Times” Riga correspondent says that apparently in connection with Amundsen’s expedition the Soviet is proclaiming as Soviet territory all lands and islands which nitty be discovered northward of the Soviet coasts to the North Pole irrespective by whom they are discovered. THE ECONOMY BILL. LONDON, April 16. After a good-tempered sitting in which Air Winston Churchill (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and Air J. H. Thomas (Secretary for tho Colonies in tlie Labour Cabinet) led the opposing side.-, the House of Commons rose at 7.15 this morning, after passing clause nine of tho Economy Bill. Further discussion of the hill was adjourned till Aronday. EXGI -NEERING CRI SIS THREATENED. ißeceived this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, April 18. An engineering crisis is threatened. The conference of the engineering employers and trades unions on tho national demand for a pound per week increase in wages failed to reach an agrement., The trade unions are now considering th® question oi authorising a strike ballot in the London districts. FRANC CAUSING UNEASINESS. PARTS, April 16. The fresh fall in tlu* franc despite the apparent improvement in the financial situation, is causing uneasiness. It is attributed to sales of French francs abroad, especially in Belgium and Italy for the maintenance of war currencies; also in Holland for unknown reasons. The false reports with regard to the demonstration by the civil servants in Paris was circulated in Central Europe and these are also blamed. JAP FOREST FIRES EXTINGUISHED. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) TOKIO, April 16. The forest fires, which caused much damage on the hills around Kobe, liavo been extinguished. BACK AT PEKIN. PEKIN, April 17. The evacuation of Pekin by thcKuominchun (.Ministerial Council) troops has been completed and the allies are to enter the city to-day. It is expected that Parliament will be convened immediately with A'en as Premier, and Doctor Wellington Koo as Foreign -Minister, but tho plants in ibis connection are subject to the approval of Chang- Tso Lin, the Alanchu Chief. BACKING FOR BRITISH MINERS. LONDON, April 1(5. Sir Arthur Steel Maitland (Minister of Labour) on behalf of Mr Baldwin, conferred with the coal owners, urging on them a confidential declaration of their new wages rates, which he has compiled, in accordance with the Coal Commission’s suggestions, eliminating tlie contnuanee of the subsidy. If the owners’ proposals are not available by the. 19th. April, Ah- Baldwin will attempt to speed them up. FAMILY’S UNIQUE RECORD LONDON, April 17. The Chiltern Hills district, of Buckinghamshire, furnishes a notable example of longevity in the family of the late William Inn, a farm labourer, who lived in a small cottage at Beacon bottom, and died at the age of ninety-four, leaving seven shildren whose ages now are: Henry 08, Caleb 91, George 88, Fred 86, Helen 83, John 80, Edwin 75. A U.STRt (-POLISH TR EATY. VIENNA, April 16. Tho Austro-Polish Arbitration Treaty lias been signed. It is valid for three years. , ’ ATRMAN TURNS UP CAIRO, April 16. J he Air Force lias received a wireless from Ammant that the Spanish ait man, E»stenoz, and his mechanic have Leon found in fairly good health. CORII AM’S PLAN. LONDON. April 16. It is understood that C’ohham’s itinerary for his flight to Australia is nowon the verge of completion. It differs materially lrom Ross Smith’s. It consists chiefly of short stages, numbering about thirty, none of them exceeding five hundred miles. Apparently this idea is to provide for quick petrol refills, doing two stages daily, so that if the weather is favourable, there is a prospect of his cutting off at least a week from Ross Smith’s time of 28 (lavs.

Cobh ain will probably cross the Straits from Atamhoka to Port Darwin and thence fringe Queensland and will traverse the Riverina to Melbourne. CHRONOMETEr" FOR NEW ZEALAND NAVY. o' r ... LONDON, April 18. ■Sir James Allen is presenting to the .New Zealand division of the Roval - avy for an annual boat competition a magnificent solid silver ship’s chronometer. surmounted by New Zealand’s coat of arms. THE CANADIAN MOTOR FIRMS. OTTAWA, April 17. A telegram from Windsor, Ontario, says the Ford Motor Coy., on Saturday. announced its intention to continue operations in face of the tariff reductions. “We believe it is the duty of all patriotic citizens to carry oil and do their utmost to build up Canada.” Mr Wallace Campbell, vice-president, stated at Osliawa, Ontario: “We have definitely decided to discontinue the manufacture and assembling or Oakland, Cadillac. Oldsmobile and G.M.C. trucks immediately and import these cars completed from the United States.”

Mr R. s. McLauglin, president of General Motors, Canada, announced on Saturday to stop within ninety days the manufacture of Chevrolet*.' Tins cars will be imported completely finished while the manufacture said McLauglin may ho continued on a close margin of profit. “SAVING THE FRANC.” PARIS, April 18. A “ Save the Franc ” campaign is in full swing, and donations to the voluntary fund to redeem the floating debt are flowing in on all sides, including seventy thousand francs from the principality of Monaco, and ten thousand from the French Footbal Federation.