BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

CLEARED AT LAST

SPY INCIDENT EXPLAINED

PARIS,. April 20. France lias been startled by the dra** matic confession of General Messitty that lie, and not M -.Maivy, was iii loee with Miitahari, the spy whfc was shot by the French. M. Matey was suspected because love letters which were discovered were signed “M Y.” . When M. Maivy recently resigned office as a member of the Cabinet, a woman journalist wrote to General Mesiny, who was War Minister in 1914, asking him to clear up the mystery.

General Messiny has replied : “Fourteen tears ago ALatahari tried by all the incomparable and seductive powers she possessed to make me her lov- I or. I found her charming, but full of mystery, and ns tempting as she was disquieting. I had the impudence to tell her so in writing.” General Messiny added that lie hoped the adventure would serve as lesson to young deputies. The confession clears M. Maivy after a miscarriage of justice recalling the Dreyfus case. BRITAIN’S PROPOSAL. TO RETURN MOSUL. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 20. It is reported that Britain has now proposed a ratification of the frontier of .Iraq in favour of Turkey on tho south side of the Brussels line, thereby returning the Mosul region of Iraq. Britain also suggests a Turco-British security pact, CHINESE REVENGE, SHANGHAI, April 21. Tho Pekin correspondent of tho “North China. Daily News,” says:— “Prior to the Kuomiiieluin’s evacuation, extremists persuaded their commanders to exterminate the Cabinet Office guards, who fired on the students on March 18th, in Pekin over the Taku demonstration. Tho guards were taken out beyond tho Yellow Temple, and were there shot with machine guns, only' live out of four hundred / escaping.

WARSHIPS IN DARDANELLES. PARIS, April 20, French naval circles are indignalit at Turkey’s concession to contractors to,raise the .Allied warships that were sunk in the Dardanelles. They point out that the French flagship, “Bouvet” wks isunk with her flag flying, and it would lie an insult to seven hundred dead therein to disturb their grave. Secret army in Germany. LONDON, April 20: The “Daily Mail’s” Berlin correspondent discloses the contents of a confidential memorandum on Gentian secret armaments, drawn up by Doctor Guidde on behalf of tho Peace Societies, for submission to the Reichstag. It reveals that the Steel Helmets’ oTranslation. is a vast movement, embracing the whole of Germany. It is financed by industrialists. It has a definite plan for mobilization in the event of war. and it is splendidly trained In conjunction with the army. Its arms include light and heavy artillery, mine throwers and machine guns. The organisation possesses extensive recruiting machinery. Dr Guidde urges the strongest gorCl'ni'nent repression of the organisation.

EUROPEAN COMPLICATIONS. LONDON, April 20.

Tile “ Daily Telegraph’s" diplomatic correspondent says: Though no protest is being made to Berlin, with regard to the Soviet-German agreement, the general view in Britain is that the moment for agreement is hardly happy. When the terms are published they will he carefully scrutinised for tho direct or indirect bearing upon tho Locarno Pact. Apparently it is not considered feasible that Germany’s cosignatories to the Pact should see-the text of the agreement before it is signed, but iU. Bones, the Czecho-Slo-vakian Foreign Minister, sent circular memorandums to all the Powers, including Germany, seeking to 'elucidate whether the draft agreement was compatible with Locarno. M. Benes's memorandum aroused resentment in Germany. If the precedent of tho Tureo-Soviet Treaty is adopted, Berlin and Moscow will he bound to consult with each other regarding issues affecting their interests.

new radio Wonder. CHEQUE TR ANSMtTTET). LONDON, April 20. A cheque for one thousand dollars, made out in London this afternoon, was transmitted to New York by radio photography. It was presented and paid within nn hour. This is one of the remarkable tests carried ont with liis own system of radio photography by a young American, Captain Ranger. The cheque was photographed on an ordinary negative and placed in the transmit ted and a fasoimilie w.is wirelessly received in New York. The transmission was autonjitically executed. The main feature of the new apparatus is a glass cylinder, which is pierced by a strong light. As tins cylinder moves, a cell operates an ordinary wireless telegilaph circuit, and produces a facsimile at tbo receiving station instantaneously. Another photo message, sent across to-dav. was autographed in manuscript by Robert Browning.

AUSTRALIAN BEAM ERVICE. NEWS FROM ENGLAND, LONDON, April 20. I lie Daily 1 elegraph. special correspondent says : Australia’s beam transmitting station at Grimsby, and receiving station at Skegness, are scheduled for completion on June 11th, when it. will Ik? possible for Australia to receive beam wireless messages, but slie will he unahle to transmit messages to England till the end of July. It is also announced that arrangements are being made for the Rugby Station to transmit news and commercial messages to foreign and dominion subscribers, but regular services will bo undertaken by the lieam stations. BRITISH POLITICS. LONDON, April 20. The House of Commons read the third time the Imperial War Graves Endowment Bill, and the Economy Bill was then passed through the Committee stage by 264 to 124 unaltered, after a five-days debate. COAL STRUGGLE. AMSTERDAM, April 20. M. Lovosky, the General Secretary of the Red Trade Unions’ International, has sent a. message here to the International Federation of Trade Unions, from Moscow, asking the Federation to telegraph the place and the time at which the representatives of the two internationals can meet in order to elaborate forms and methods for supporting the British miners in their righteous struggle against the offensive of united and well-organised capital.