BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] FASCIST LAWS. ROME, July 2. The latest Fascist reform is the decree curtailing the size of the iewspapers. From to-day the newspapers will be limited to six pages. Tho “Popolo d’ Italia” says: The Government’s new measures will teach journalists the need of" clear and concise writing. The reporters and tlie political writers will thus learn the Fascist stylo, wliicTi is one of beauty. Tho limitation of space will also curtail rhetoric, as long winded'.speeches will not he reported.” Tho wine growers are staggered by tho issue of a decree ordaining that a large proportion of I hc wine pressoda this year must ho distilled into alcohol fuel for motor cats. TAX ON* .SINGLE PEOPLE. " ATHENS, July 3. The Government of Greece has decided to huact taxes upon unmarried persons of both sexes. PRESENTED AT COURT. (Received this day at 8.30 n.m.) LONDON, July 4. The following New Zealanders were presented at Court:—Misses > .]. IT. Louisson, L. C. Tapper, Emily Maguire, Mistresses if. Rodmayne, E. Maguire, E, D. Denniston, E. Al. Myers, E. M. K. Oilmour. LADY HOUSTON. LONDON. July 4. Jersey Royal Court after hearing medical experts rescinded the former declaration that Lady Houston was incapable of managing her own affairs. WOMEN’S PARADE.

(Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 4. Thousands of women headed hv Mistrossso Pankhurst Despard, Dame Fawcett, including women who were candidates for Parliament ::it last election, justices of the peace, councillors, teachers, students, and actresses t marched in procession to Hyde Park demanding the franchise for women on equal terms to men. LONDON, July 4. Obituary,— Sir Adolph Tuck. WASTE OF BEER. LONDON, July 2. Fire broke out in the Talbot Arms •tavern, at. Uplyme, in Devonshire. The •fire brigade was summoned from Axminster, thnoe miles distant., hut running short of water it was compelled to use beer. The brigade’s efforts appenrod successful, hut the fire again broke out, and the inn was destroyed. DANUBE FLOODED. BELGRADE, July 3. Disastrous tloods have ravaged in lowlying districts along the river Danube. There arc many victims. The Danube river is higher than it has been for a. century past. Fifteen thousand men, assisted by troops, are working to save the harvest in the Batelika district, the most fertile in the Kingdom of Serbia. FRANC SLUMP. LONDON. July 2. Tho French franc closed in London at 183 to £l. The further slump is apparently due to the uncertainty of the French political situation. FIRE IN GOODS STATION. PARIS, July 4. ' There was a huge blaze at Dijou goods station, when a score of wagons were destroyed. The damage is estimated at four million francs. Traffic lines from Dijou to Lille and Nancy are suspended. TRAIN SMASH. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) PARIS, July 3. Twenty were killed and sixty injured through the derailing of the HavreParis express between Acheres -and Poissy. It is believed the accident was due to a landslide following a storm. DERAILMENT CASUALTIES. PARIS, July 4. The casualties in the Poissey derailment are now estimated at seventeen killed and ninetyseven injured. PARIS, July 4. The engine driver Sondach was killed by the ITavre-Paris express but Leroux, Director of State railways escaped. Abbe Duval, of Havre, crawled out unhurt from the wreckage and rescued many of the injured and .gave absolution to the dying amid torrents • Of rain.

ST LEST AN FLOODS. BERLIN, July 3. A terrific thunderstorm swept the giant mountains of Silesia and floods washed a way houses and bridges. Villagers were awakened by rushing waters and fled in a panic. Many were drowned trying, to rescue cattle. COBHAM AT ATHENS. ATHENS, .July 2. Cobhnin is here detained by a slight indisposition. He fully expects to continue his flight to-morrow. COBHAM’S FLY. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) , LONDON, July 3. Cobhnin departed from Athens at nine and arrived at Liros at ten fortyfive after a delightful flight o\ei toe Aegian Sea, alter which he took iff on a six hundred mile (light to Alexandrette where the British Consul met him with a steam yacht in the bay and towed him up the liailtoui. Feeling better after a day’s rest, ordered by a doctor, he goes to Athens to-morrow and will then fly to Bagdad. COBHAM AT BAGHDAD. BAGHDAD, July 4. Coblinm has arrived. THE SICK CRICKETERS. LONDON. July 4. Collins , has been ordered into a nursing home. It will be known on Wednesday whether lie will be able to play in the test at Leeds. Ryder is expected to be sufficiently recovered by Wednesday. Hendry should bo able to play at Margate in a fortnight. FLOODS IN HUNGARY. BELGRADE. July 4. Very’ serious floods are reported from Bacska and Banat, the most fertile provinces of Hungary. Sixty thousand acres of tlv? best wheat land are inundated. AMUNDSEN’S JOB. NEW YORK. July 4. Amundsen sailed for Norway on Saturday. He said: “I’m going home for a rest. Forty-one years ago at the age. of fifteen I knew what I wanted to do .during my life. I wanted to mo both Poles. I have seen them and the job'is done. There are-no more places to discover. There will be no more lectures, no more expeditions.’’ SOCCER. OTTAWA, July 3. . English ’ soccer tourists defeated Winnipeg All Stars at Winnipeg by 7 goals to nil,

A SHOCKING SUICIDE. PARIS, July 4. A dreadful suicide is reported from the mining town of Susa. A mines foreman named Gagnon walked into the mess room with a stick of dynamite in his mouth. He coolly lighted the fuse in the presence of twenty-five colleagues, who scattered to safety. The building was blown to pieces, likewise Gagnon. Ten miners were terribly hurt, and a pig and a mule in the yard killed. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. LONDON, July 4. . Tho “Didly Tedcgraph” says that Mr Baldwin made a statement in H-e House of Commoncs this week regarding the programme of tho Imperial Conference, and the possibility ol a slight postponed)t whereof having again lifisen, owing to the Canadian dissolution, hut it was hoped to avoid it.