BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

FEDERAL LOAN

LONDON, June 21. The Commonwealth loan has closed but was not fully subscribed. MIGRATION CONGRESS. (Received this day at 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, June 2-1. Speaking at the World Migration Congress. Mr Kitson (Australia) said Australia did not object to European migrants, so long as they would lie absorbed without, detriment to the workers already there. The Australian standard of living was equal to anything in the world, and they were determined to maintain it.

Mr "Wilson (New Zealand) suggested tlie proposed migration office lie merged in the International Labour Office at Geneva with brandies in every country, containing adequate trades unions. New Zeland's objections to wholesale migration, were based solely on social and racial ■ grounds and applied equally to Europeans and people of European races. INTERESTING SCENES. (Received this day at 12.2 d p.m.) 'NEW YORK, June 21. The foremost subject being discussed among Catholic leaders attending the Eucharist. ic.s Congress is the reunion of oriental churches. It is claimed the latter are absolutely at one with "Rome on tbo question of sacrificing priesthood, mass and holy communion. Interest is chiefly centred on tiie Russian church, which so far is the greatest separated from Rome, and having now lost the support of the State which historically was the main harrier against reunion, is now free to follow its own choice. Meantime the Congress ceremonies concluded at Mundelein with flic greatest religious spectacle ever witnessed in this or any other country. The singing and praying of the. multitude of a million people gathered from all lands of the earth honoured and blessed the Eucharist in a Ivibel of tongue?!, the like whereof has never before been heard in the New World. EUCTIARI STIC CONGRESS. (Received tins day at 12.2 d p.m.) NEW YORK, June 21. The .Mundelein gathering was banked along either side of three mile “ Via Gloria,” circling the beautiful inland fake. It shattered every existing record in sheer magnitude of the number of persons, distance from which they travelled and the length of procession, surpassing any similar ovation in histoi'y. All the vantage point’s were so dansely packed it was impossible for many to sit down, so they stood beneath a scorching sun, with heads reverently bowed, chanting and praying, until the Papal Legato with Cardinals and suites emerged from the celebration of Pontificial 'Mass, after which the huge procession wound round the lake. A striking feature was the orderly attitude of the gathering. There were no protests, no demonstrations. The police and traffic experts estimated that four hundred thousand people arrived by the trains after sunrise, and half a million by motor, while a hundred thousand camped in the vicinity all night and a further two hundred thousand' were unable to enter the grounds. The programme was disrupted iri the afternoon by the heaviest rain storm experienced for months.