BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1926, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] ANCIENT HOUSE SOLD. LONDON, June 6. Chautri House, Essex, built in 1367 and used in the 16th. century as a residence by Christopher Martin, one of tlw Pilgrim Fathers, has been privately sold to an American for £lO,000. It will be removed and re-erect-ed in Boston. NO GERMAN coal. “The Daily Herald” says that German firms decline to sell coal to Britain, possibly because they are afraid of having trouble with their own miners or they prefer to sell in a market usually held by Britain. RUSSIAN FLEET TOUR. LONDON, June 7. The “Times” Riga correspondent reports Moscow announced the Red squadron, consisting of a battleship, two cruisers and some destroyers, will make a voyage round the world this summer, visiting Stettin, Portsmouth, Toulon, Genoa, Alexandria, Calcutta, Ngasaki, San Francisco and Panama. The fleet has begun exercises in the Baltic. A sjiecial order emphasises the chief object of the manoeuvres will consist of testing the defences of Leningrad approaches and calls special attention to the co-operation of the fleet, air and coast defences. The Com-mander-in-Cliief Zoff urging reinforcements of the Red Navy stressed the fact that Britain was able to penetrate the Baltic and clean up to Kronstadt. He recalls the action of the Great Powers in 1923 when they refused to consent to the bottling up of the Baltic for Baltic Powers and adds, “ British naval visits to the Baltic are certainly aggressive. She is making one Baltic State in order to strengthen her influence against Russia.” MOSUL TREATY. LONDON, Juno 7-« y The “Daily Chronicle” states: As a result of the Mosul Treaty, Britain will he able to evacuate Mesopotamia" well withinMhe period of four years after the ratification of peace with Turkey in August of 1924. By the now Treaty, the Government has retrieved the blunder of committment <>f further indeterminate occupation. Mr Donohoe, the “Daily Chronicle’s” corespondent, expresses the opinion that industrial and mineral developments will receive a stimulus in the region now that the ever-pre-ent spectre has been,laid. The question now exists as to whether an oil pipe running through Mosul, across the Syrian Desert to a Palestine port, can he profitably laid in view of the possibility of a Turkish petroleum company, striking oil in the Mosul area.

BOYAL COLLISION. [“Sydney Sun” Cables.] [Deceived this day at 8.30 a.in.) LONDON, June 7. Tlieir Majesties, the King and Queen and Prince Henry while motoring on 4 a visit to Princess Victoria, near Coat- - ley, Middlesex swerved to avoid a woman cyclist. The mudguard of tlie car hit the cyclist. The car narrowly , missed two pedestrians. The Bovalties alighted, the Queen visibly pale and the King greatly concerned, .accepted a. passing motorists offer to drive the cyclist home. Later the King sent » messenger to enquire regarding the cyclists condition. Later reports state she is recovering. SOVIET MONEY. (Deceived this day at- 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 7. The “Daily Mail” in the leader says that the funds that Mr Cook boasts of receiving have not come from the miners of Bussia whoso wages are 12s 6d weekly. The Bussian railwaymen are paid 40s weekly. It is preposterous to supnoso that such wretchedly paid ' workers provided a thousand sterling to assist tlie British. It is the Soviet which provided the money for the purpose of working tlie,political and commercial ruin of Britain. These: bloodthirsty ruffians do not care twopence about the fate of the miners wives or children. They had already .allowed thousands of Bussian women and eu.ildreu to starve. Cook and Smith freely accept tainted money forgetting that while the British coalfields are idle, the Bussian mines hiivc been developed upon starvation wages. Tlie v Government must stop Bussian money M being sent, which is a violation of the j Anglo-Bussian Treaty.