BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1926, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] EGYPTIAN ELECTIONS. v X. CAIRO, May 23. The election returns, so far, including the unopposed, are: Zfighlulistfl 88, Liberals 19, Nationalists 3, Independents 5,' Itteliadists 1. . The first three constitute a bloc. There are 214 seats. The “Argus” (Cairo) of the 23rd. says the Itteliadists were routed at the elections, the Zaghlnlists Coalition having captured all the twenty seats in which the results have so far been declared. The figures in the thirteen constituencies show that the coalitionists polled sixty-eight thou- r sand votes, against their opponents’ J thirteen hundred. In one case Aztiiv jj Pasha (ex-Kfinister of War), a promin- ) elit Ittoliadist, mustered only three votes against his opponent’s 6,358. LORD SOMERS, LONDON, May 22, Lord, Somers arid his suite have embarked on the liner Cathay at Tilbury, accompanied by his aides-de-camp Lieutenant Malcolm, of the Welsh Guards and Lieutenant Brinkman, of the Grenadier Guards. Alleged “ratting.” ST. JOHN’S (Newfoundland) .May 23. Tho Hon. C. Russell aitd the Hon. F. G. Bradley have yielded to the demand from Premier Monroe to resign from . the Government. The Premier charged them with plotting to overthrow fiie Ministry.

EGYPTIAN WIRELESS. CAIRO, May 24. The Egyptian Government litis grant- ; ed Marconi’s a thirty years concession ? for Wireless. KRIM’S LAST STAND, t Tangier, May 24. i A Riff courier reports that Krini summoned the loyal tribal leaders and declared his resources were almost exhausted and the position hopeless. He giivo a f/ec choice to submit to France and Spain or fight to the death shoulder to shoulder with himself. _ The tribes decided to fight. j MUSSOLINI AND POPE. INTER ESTI KCI NEC OTIATI ONS. ' A [“Sydney Sun” Cables.] (Received this dav at 8.30 a.ln.) LONDON. May 24. _ The “Westminster Gazette’s” pofitical correspondent state# Mussolini secretly negotiated for Vatican support for Italian expansion on the lines of the Holy Roman Empire. The bargain includes a settlement of tho question of the Papacy’s Temporal power, giving the Pope the actual territory oit the Vatican side of the River Tiber. Mussolini hopes to profit by the Vatican’s troubles iu France and -.Jugoslavia gaining the Pope’s blessing and interest in the Fascists internal policy and external expansion. Italian officers are already wearing , wristlet watches upon which a minute map of Imperial Italy includes Nice and Malta.. The prime mover at tho ’ Vatieanis not the Pope, who actually is worried and anxious hut a powerful personage behind the Papal Throne, who threatens to resign whenever tho,""'A Pope expresses his misgivings too m forcibly. ELECTION DISTURBANCES, [“ The Times ” Service.] LONDON, May 24. The “ Times ” correspondent states there were three serious,although isolated, election disturbances in which two persona were killed and fifty-five injured. " !■ - - ‘