BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. EGYPTIAN POLITICS. CAIRO, May 23. Zaghlul is in ill health and ivilt no accept the Premiership. Adly Pasln may form a new ministry. Xiwtir ad he res to his intention to remain nidi the auguration of Parliament at whicl he will read the King’s speech defending the Cabinet’s action after whirl he will resign. CHUM AN COMM (TXI STS. (Received this day at 12.20 p.m.) Rerun, May 24. The Gerii'lm Communistic Party and Extreme Nationalist Organisation of Stahlhelm or steel helmets, held a icview of their respective forces yesterday, the former in Berlin and the latter in Dusseldorf. Communists were estimated to number thirty thousand and Stahlholmites fifty thousand. Purge forces of police, including mounted men, were present. The proceedings were orderly. The Communists review was held in 1 large park in Berlin in the presence of thousands of curious spectators. They were arrayed in semi-military uniform. They performed military evolutions with commendable celerity, while bunds played revolutionary airs. Many speeches were made denouncing everything and everybody including British Trade Union leaders for their return to work after which the sernbly dispersed with hinds playing, banners flying and singing of songs, including the Communists latest favourite ,“Mother, a policeman killed your child.” Two police aeroplanes circled overhead during the proceedings. 100 MILES AN HOUR. (LONDON, May 24. Brooklands was the centre of an enormous holiday throng, where Parry Thomas and his machine “Balls,” provided a sensation by roaring round the track at 100 miles an hour. The course i was only built for a maximum speed 1 of 120 miles, and the onlookers held I their breath as “Babs” dashed round a curve at such a tremendous pace that she missed plunging oveT- the edge of the slope by inches. Only when the monster car had finished her phenomenal perlormant e was she .surrounded bv great crowds, the majority of whom were a new type of speedgirl, only found at Brooklands, attired in what might lie termed extraordinary streamline costumes and hats "’hicli wore elegant representations of the favourite racing helmets, chattering about gears, differentials and acceleration, faster than “Bubs’* had travelled.

BRITISH CONSUL ATTACKED. PUKING, May 24. The British Consul at Swatow, while removing Communist posters from the walls ot the Consulate, was attacked hy a number of pickets. He defended himself with a walking stick, escaping with slight injuries. Subsequently an armed guard from a British gunboat in the harbour was posted to defend the Consulate. The Chinese Commissioner was informed they would remain until an official apology was tendered and as" surances given that there would he no recurrence of such acts.

BRITISH RKGIO.Y. LONDON, May 21. At the British Legion Conference there was a very considerable feeling shown over a resolution protesting against the action of the headquarters of the Region in issuing a statement in the press calling on all ex-servicemen to oiler their services to preserve law and order on the occasion of the general strike. The resolution was defeat-; ed and the Conference passed a resolution in favour of urging an international federation of ex-services to convene a meeting with ex-service or-

ganisatioiis of ox-citoniy countries, which aro genuinely working in the interests of goodwill, with a view to devising ways and means for collahora-

OKOLOGTCAL CONGRESS. MADRID, May 25. Three hundred and fifty-three- countries were represented by thirteen hundred delegates at the fourteenth international geological congress which was opened by the King. MANILA CLASH. MANILA, May 25. Constabulary and municipal police at San Feranda Crnmpagnn clashed. Two police were killed, two constabulary men wounded, two civilians killed and twenty civilians injured. AIR. DISASTER. MANILA, May 25. During a practise flight two army aeroplanes collided in. midair at Novorie near Narn, one bursting into flames and the other breaking in two. Roth pilots and lieutenants were killed. PLAGUE OF R ATS. LONDON. May 21. A curious consequence of the coal strike is that rats are forsaking the South Wales collieries in thousands and invading the miners’ dwellings, owing to the supply of grain not being available when the' pit ponies were withdrawn. The rats are so numerous and daring that it is necessary to fight the plague. Men in Rhondda Valley collected ferrets and dogs and organised a rat killing campaign. They propose to enter the worst pits and destroy the rats wholesale.