BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1926, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] PRINCE lIENRY FALLS. LONDON, June 30. While Prince Henry was competing, in a jumping competition, a dog frightened his horse. The Prince was thrown,. [ but he jumped up and declared that lie V was not hurt. He afterwards won the reserve prize for officers’ hunters. A SPANISH PLOT. PARIS, July 1. Following the departure to London of Their Spanish Majesties, a private visit of the police revealed a- plot to assassinate the King which was frustrated oil Friday by the arrest of two notorious bandits and anarchists who had come purposely from Argentine. They confessed they intended to attempt the King’s life. The police ha ve been watching five individuals who A., landed at Cherbourg from Argentine, at the beginning of May. Two Spanish subjects Ascaso; suspected of the murder of Archbishop Sargossa in 1923 and Bonaventur Durettv, using false names. When Ascaso was arrested he attempted to fire at the police, hut was overpowered. Both were armed with automatics. Ascaso had bank notes of a thousand pesos payable at an Italian bank and a receipt for a motor car. Three rifles and - 210 cartridges were discovered in their rooms. It was explained the car. was to be used to convey them, to the last station outside Paris where the Royal train stopped, where the attempt would lie made. It is reported that as a result of the plot, the Spanish Government have arrested over four hundred militaries. The prisons are crowded with civilians. Melquiado and Alvarez, ex-Premier, are included. Count Roma nones when threatened with arrest, fled.

RUSSIA AND GERMANY. BERLIN, June 30. A long delayed agreement has been concluded whereby a syndicate of German hanks will finance the Soviet in a million, marks purchase of factory equipment and vehicles from Germany for four years. Herr Curtins, Minister of Economic Affairs, told the Budget ’ Committee that a scheme has been worked out to. improve the marketing conditions of Germany and to consolidate RussoGerman economic relations in accordance with the recent treaty. The Government is understood to guarantee thirty-five per cent of the credits and the German State Governments a further twenty-five per cent.

PACIFIC CABLE DUPLICATION. LONDON, June 30. The cable ship Dominia is loading 3,500 nautical miles of cable, weighing 8,500 toils, for the VnncouverFalining Island cable duplication. Sho leaves London at the end of August, and begins laying in October. She expects to complete the work in three ■weeks. PECULIAR. SUTCIDE. PARIS, July 1. Major Debos, Tils wife, land a friend were walking along Beacliy Head in the middle of the afternoon, when a friend inquired where to find a spot like the Sydney Head Gap, from which so many lfave committed suicide. “Just over there where that man is sitting,” said tile Major, who, with a stprt, saw the man move and hang with liis legs overhanging a cliff six inches from a drop of hundreds of feet’. Major Debos stealthily crept up in order not to frighten the man. The latter then rose and attempted to throw himself over the cliff. Major Debos gripped him, and after a despeiute struggle on the brink of the cliff, the Major managed to pull the man to safety. Then fate played the strangest of tricks. The man who had just been saved from an appalling death on the rocks below suddenly groaned and expire. It turned out he had poisoned himself.

COBH AM AT NAPLES. ' ROME, July 1. Cobham, the British airmail, arrived at Naples after an excellent passage from England. He reported that everything was running smoothly. NON-STOP FLIGHTS. PARIS, July 1. Several competitors will shortly try to heat the French brothers Arrachards’ new record for a non-stop flight. Captain Le Maitre. who accompanied the Arrachards, set out to-morrow for Senegal, and Captain Grier starts for Western Russia to-morrow. Captain Challe will later fly to Central Europe. Tt is significant all three are using different motors. This is due to the French Air Ministry’s desire- to stimulate rivalry in tlie air motor industry.

SPANISH SOVEREIGNS. LONDON, June 30. King Alfonso ■ and Queen Victoria of Spain, have arrived here for a fortnight’s private visit. They were welcomed at the"railway station by Queen Mary, the Prince of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of York, Princess Beatrice and other members of the Royal Family. WAR MEMORIALS. LONDON. June 30. Mr Shepherd, representing the War Graves Commission, attended the Anglo-French War Graves Committee at Paris, at which the French Government mildly, but pointedly, suggested that Britain and the Dominions were outdistancing them in the magnitude of thoir war memorials on the French battlefields, and doing so to such an extent as completely to overshadow the French memorials. They instanced the Australian memorial at Maningate. and also Canada’s proposed memorial at Vimy. which will he fifty per cent more costly and higher than the Arc de Triomplie at Paris.

France, it was pointed out. is financially unable to overspread her hundreds of battlefields with similar structures, and she must therefore suffer by comparison in the French popular estimation with Britain and the Dominions, who had collectively fewer hut individually more colossal memorials.

The British and Dominion delegates undertook to convey France’s representations to their respective Governments..