BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1926, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

[Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.] PARIS TO TOKYO. PARIS, June 15. Captain d’Oisy has reached Krasnoyarsk, in Eastern Siberia, after flying 2970 miles in four stages; He expects to reach Peking on Wednesday, thus flying from Paris to Peking in six days. [Captain d’Oisy, the famous French aviator, is -attempting a- nine days’ flight from Paris to Tokyo, via Russia.] EX-G ERMA N COLONIES, PLEA FOR RETURN, LONDON, June 16. “Painstaking, but nil essentially clumsy case for the return of the German colonies is made,” says a reviewer, “By Doctof Schnee, in his hook, ‘German Colonisation, Past and Future.’ It is only worthy of notice because Dr Schnee was successively a Magistrate in New; Guinea, DeputyGovernor of Samoa, and Governor of East Africa. He might be forgiven any bias if it had not led to a mischievous distortion of evidence when ho seeks to prove the incapacity, and even the cruelty, of the present mandatory Powers. Amid astonishing indictments of British rule, lie gravely asks whether the unhappy people of the ewGermnn protectorates shall continue to be exposed to decimation by the plagues and the diseases with which the British, French, and Belgians. are unable to cope V' The Reviewer adds: “It- is time that such gross insinuations were refuted. Perhaps Dr Schnee would ho reluctant to admit that, under the admiiiitration of Australian doctors, some of the tropical ex-German Colonies have been virtually cleared of malaria. Dr Schnee adopts the curious reasoning that tire natives of the ex-Ger-man Colonies, including New Guinea, when they affirm their loyalty to Germany, speak from the bottom of their hearts, but when they declare a prefereucre for British rule, they have lice,n bribed and bullied by cunning officials.”

BRITISH DEFENCE,

LONDON, June 17

A pronouncement against establishing a British Ministry of Defence was made in the House of Lords by Lord Balfour, when replying to Lord Thomson.

Lord Thomson urged reconstruction of the Committee of Imperial Defence. with greater executive power regarding its policy.

Lord Balfour said that administrative co-ordination was going on happily. The Ministry was in the process of (establishing a College of Imperial Defence for the purpose of disseminating knowledge and ensuring co-opera-tion oil the military side. Personally, lie could not see any gain in having a Minister of Defence, if the Imperial Defence Committee was left as it was, because it was more able to effect co-ordination of the civil and military services than a Minister would be.

Lord Cavan said that tlie present system worked smoothly and well. It would he extremely ill-advised to try to change, it.

SAVED FROM THE SEA. TOKYO, Juno 17. The cruiser Kasuga, reports that all the crew of the stranded steamer, numbering 73, have been rescued, after prolonged and hazardous exertions. They are now proceeding to Yokohama.

PRESERVED BUTTER. LONDON, June 15. Answering Mr J. R. Clynes’s fears' regarding the effects of the Anti-Pre-servative Regulations on food • supplies, the Food Council states that New Zealand tests showed that preservatives were unnecessary. British distributors and consumers were quite commonly unaware of the difference between boric butter and that which did not contain the preservative from the Antipodes. BIG PLANS FOR WEMBLEY. LONDON, June IG. It is announced that White’s SyndL cate intends to convert Wembley into the world’s sports centre. There is a colossal scheme, which includes a stadium. It is to be not only the permanent home of the cup final, but it is hoped to play the international rugby games there instead of at Twickenham, and also to hold international athletics there.

WRESTLING. NEW YORK, June 17. At Portland. Thve defeated Nichols in two falls out of three by wristloeks. Th.vc leaves for Australia at the end of June. EMPIRE PA RLIAMENTS. LONDON, Juno 16. The United Kingdom Delegation of the Empire Parliamentary Association, which, with from other centres of the Empire, will travel through Australia, and will hold informal conferences, will ho headed by at least one Opposition front benches. It will consists of nine Conservatives, six Labourites, and one Liberal. Jt is due to reach Sydney on September 18, going via Canada, and New Zealand. ANGLICAN CRISIS. LONDON, June IG.

The “Daily Express” says:— The Church of England is facing one of the greatest crises in its history, one which may lend to the breakaway of seven hundred thousand members of the Anglo-Catholic Party, to their eventual reunion with the Church of Rome. Thirty-six Archbishops and Bishops, in to-day’s conference at Lambath Palace, are expected to approve of the Rubric already passed by the House of Clergy, legalisng the perpetual reservation of tlie Sacrament. The Church Assembly is likely to confirm the Bishop’s decision. Then a fight will begin, as the new Rubric will have to go to Parliament for authority, which the Anglo-Catholics refuse to recognise. The rejection of the Rill would strengthen, the Anglo-Catholics’ vigorous demand for the disestablishment of the Anglican Church. On the contrary, if the Bill passes, the Bishops will ban the service of devotion to the Sacrament that is now being c-arried on in many of the Anglo-Catholic Churches, and as the Anglo-Catholics refuse to respect such a ban, prosecutions will begin. MOTOR. CYCLING. LONDON, June 16. In the Isle of "Wight, motor cycling race, Glierzi was disqualified from second place for a breach of the negulations. It is reported that he made an unauthorised change of the sparking ping during the race.