BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1926, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

] [Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. PEKING, May 27. According to Chinese reports, two f Chinese attempted to assassinate Marshiil Feng Yu Hsiang, while he was ’ inspecting an arsenal at Moscow. .Marshal Feng was uninjured and his i assailants were arrested. > BYRD’S STATEMENT. LONDON, May 27. “ I stayed fourteen minutes at the Pole,” declared Commander Byrd when he was interviewed on arrival at Lon- '' don, en route to America. “ Beneath ’ us was a white, snow-covered ice pack, as (fur as we could see in every direc--1 tion. There was no sign of life anywhere. The temperature was just zero.” Ho added that he was quite convinced that he laid reached the Pole from the findings of a sun compass which ho was able to use continuously. FRENCH POLITICS. LONDON, May 27. Paris telegrams announce that what is tantamount to a vote of confidence was carried by 320 votes to 209, alien the Chamber agreed to the Government’s demand for an adjournment of the interpellations regarding the financial situation. Undoubtedly recovery of the franc, followed by the collapse of Alxl-el Kriin has greatly strengthened M. Briand’s position. N.Z. LOAN. LONDON. May 28. The New Zealand loan with the final instalment of forty per cent, payable on 23rd July, and interest payable in January and July, the first payment of 1 half years’ interest on first January : 1927, was well received in the city, where financial circles consider the terms favourable. i - s ROTARY CONFERENCE. , HONOLULU, -May 28. | The Public International Rotary Conference closed at three o’clock to-day. The altitude of the delegates is reflected in an address by Mr Charles Rhodes, Post Director, who said:— “ The Rotary International Conference brought together people of the j three countries in friendly meeting where friendships have been made, and will never he broken. Australians, New Zealanders and Americans were ( blood brothers before this, hut from now on they will he brothers in their great effort to maintain world peace.”

DANISH AVIATOR ARRIVES. (Received this day at, S a.m.) TO K 10, May 28. Botved. the Danish aviator ill as arrived at I lei jo, Korea. WILD MEN OF GERMANY. TALK OF A MONARCHIST COUP. [“ Sydney Sun ” Cables.] (Received this day at 8.30 .a.mA LONDON, a.ay 28. Germany is at the cross roads. The fate of the Republic is in the balance, says the “Daily News” Berlin correspondent. Republicans and Monarchists realising the referendum on royal property on 20th June may finally solve the constitutiouary problem are now marshalling their forces. The terms of the proposed law whereon the referendum will be field, explains the Monarchists violence also the exKaiser’s fears, ft provides that interRoyal properties be confiscated and handed over to the unemployed war cripples, widows, peasants, small investors, pensioners and-other victims of the war and its aftermath, while Royal castles, palaces and shooting boxes he transformed into hospital or schools. Monarchists and notoriously turbulent wild men are drilling on one of his big estates within two hours of a railway journey from Berlin. This explains'tlie persistence of the report of an immediate Monarchist rising. Republicans, including Demonerats, Socialists and the majority of Catholic workers are prepared to carry the blow. Communists are reconciled and have agreed in any emergency to join the Republi-

cans. Meanwhile the Monarchists effervescence is growing owing to the operations of the Hohenzollern agents, especially in reactionary Bavaria. The idea of a coup to upset the Government and the setting up of a. dictatorshin thereby, stalling of a referendum, is winning favour among the wild men.