BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1926, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] alleged fraud. LONDON, July 7. Sussannah Hughes Bevac, who was arrested in New Zealand in February last, was to-day charged at Bow St., * Court with obtaining by conspiracy and fraud, from the Prudential Assurance Coy., the sum of £2,881 about Juno 1922. Detectives testified to reading the warrant to her on a train from Soutlv ampton, and telling her that she"' would probably bo further charged with majirufiadturing false evidences for the purpose of misleading a judicial tribunal, and obtaining' monCy by false pretences. The woman denied the charges, amV she told the detectives that she glad to come to England to clear her-J self.- She was remanded for a week.

WINE EFFECTS. LONDON, July 6. The Cologne correspondent of “The Times” reports that a ship laden with Wine capsized on the Rhine. The crew were rescued, but barrels of the -vine were washed 'ashore, and a number of tho inhabitants partook copiously, resulting in four deaths, 'and thirteen have been taken to the hospital un-A conscious. KOREAN TROUBLE. TOKIO, July 6. Anti-missionary feeling is now running high in Korea: It is due to an American missionary using nitrate of silver to brand the Korean word for theft on the forehead of a boy who stole apples from a hospital’s ground. The boy, who, between fright and shame, is seriously ill. At Tokio reactionaries are also planning an anti-missionary mass meeting despite !a telegram from the Governor of Korea, requesting them to abstain because the sentiment in Korea, is already at a high pitch.

AVIATION LANDING DANGERS LONDON, July 6. Tlie trustees of the Daniel Guggenheimer Fund of £2,500,000 for the promotion of safety in aeronautics) have reported declaring that tlie landing speed to-day is far too high, and thatthe run after the landing is too long, anil the gliding angle to the flat angle of descent is too slight. The trustees are organising an international competition in "England, with two 1 hundred thousand dollars for prizes, in order to attract the host v designers and manufacturers throughout the world. All countries’ experts will be consulted to frame rules and regulations.

T.U.C. REPORT. LONDON, July 7. “Tho solo reason for the termination of the strike, says the Trades Union Congress General Council’s report, “was the futility of its continuance in view of the miners’ attitude. The leaders of the miners must have known that the coal industry must be reorganised and that therefore it was uec- .

cssary to devise an alternative ty standing by while thousands starved oil a slogan, the adoption of which meant the throwing out of 300,000 mine workers by the closing of the uneconomic mines. It is saner to allow a temporary wage reduction during reorganisation. Tlie T.U. Council could not follow, the' Miners’ Executive’s policy of negotiation under which tho splendid response of the sympathetic strike would have evaporated 1 tlie means-of attrition, brought the unions to bankruptcy, and undermined ttftir morale". No organisation is entitled to claim such a sacrifice. The continuation of the strike was, utterly unjustified . LONDON, July 6. At the Weymouth Railwaymen’s Conference, only six voted for the dismissal of Mi- J. H. Thomas M.P., from the General Secretaryship of the organisation. A no-confidence motion was overwhelmingly rejected. Mr Thomas sent a letter to the press representatives explaining that all of them could return to the National Union of Railwaymen’s Conference without discrimination.

The journalists have decided to attend tlie public session to-morrow.

MEAT WAR ENDING. LONDON, July C. Cautious statements made on behalf of big firms importing Argentine meat suggest that the time is approaching when the meat price war may lie .terminated by an agreement. The “Daily Mail” says the importing firms have sacrificed millions of pounds during the past year. The importers contend that the public has been benefiting through the cheapness of joints, hut, sooner or later, the senseless competition must cease. The fight has; been really between Vestey’s and the American group.

BRITAIN’S UNEMPLOYED. LONDON, July 6. The unemployed in Britain at the end of June numbered 1,638,000. This is an increase of 334,000 more than there were a year ago. The above figures however, exclude the idle coal workers.