BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1926, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

[Australia' & N.Z. Cable Association MANSLAUGHTER. PARIS, July 8. Six men who were charged with lb lnanslbughter of a number of Ara stowaways on a French ship last April were sentenced to two years inipris onrnent, and a six hundred francs fin in addition to costs. One was acquit ted. WOMAN'S .MOTOR. RECORD. PARIS, July 8. Miss Onrdery. driving an “All Blit ish” car on die Montlhery track broke the world’s record for foui thousand and five thousand miles, hci speed averagin'; seventy miles pel hour. ENGLISH STAGE. LONDON, July 8. Mr Lee Slmbcrt, the world’s nios influential theatre manager, made i startling attack on the English stagi before his departure for New York He said : “ I wanted to find materia for six hundred theatres, but I have only been able to purchase four plays while 1 have only engaged three 01 four artists. Where are the pretti young women with voices able to act: Once they abounded. Now the Knglisl managers only want people with readymade names. Your managers go tc America to buy their successes, thinking that the risk will be less. The result is that English authors are not writing. The old-time manager has gone. Many of those in London nowadays do not know their business.” BELGIAN" STRIKERS DEMANDS ANTWERP, July 8. The strike of dockers here has been settled. The employers have granted the dockers the increase asked for at the earnest request of the Governor of the Province,, and of the burgomaster. in the interests of the country, and in view of the rise of the exchange value of the Belgian currency. LOAN FOR THE CAPE. London, July 8. The underwriting is proceeding of a Union of South Africa four million loan at five pier cent., redeemable in 1945-70. The issue price is one hundred. EIGHT HOURS BILL. LONDON, July 8. When the fin d stage of the. Coal Miners’ Eight Hours Shifts Bill was reached in the House of Lords, Lord Parinoor and Lord Arnold'discussed the Bill at length, and Lord Cecil walked out, leaving Lord Balfour as the "sole occupant of the Treasury Benches. . Finally Lord Salisbury walked in, and he angrily moved the closure. He Said it was obvious what the opponents of the Bill were doing. Lord Arnold persisted in his discussion of the Bill and a. group of Members of the House of Commons, who were standing at tho bar, cheered him. Then the Chancellor, amid a hubbub, said that lie would nut the motion oil his own responsibility. 'l’he Commoners kept up'their interjections. The Chancellor finally ordered a clearance of the bar. The Commoners then slowly dispersed. The closure was carried by 41 votes. Lord Arnold demanded a division on the third reading of the Bill, hut he did not persist. The Bill was read a third time without a division. Tho Members of the House of Commons were then summoned to the House of Lords to hear tho Royal War- I rant read. This punctuated by coughs, j subdued remarks, find cries of pro lies! j from a group of the miner members j of the House of. Commons. j A heated incident followed. As the Commoners were filing back through j tho lobby, the Conservatives and tire j Labourites engaged in wordy verbal in- ! terchnnges. | One Conservative, Air E. R. Bird, | suddenly turned, shouting; “Did yon j say that of me?” and he then struck at- Mr Gardner, who was behind him. I Other members intervened and pre- | vented a conflict. | Mr Kirkwood later sought to rd-jom-n the House to discuss the incident, but he was ruled out of order.LADY ASTOR. LONDON, July 3. During a debate on the new Poor Law Guardians Bill, Lady Asitor referred to a municipal corporation. Before she had finished the sentence, Air Jack Jones (the Labourite) shouted: “Veil ,are a liar if you say so.” On a general demand for a withdrawal, however, Mr Jones apologised, and then substituted the phrase “terminological inexactitude.” Afr Lansbury then protested against wealthy women interfering when the poor people’s conditions were being discussed. RUSSIAN HELP FOR MINERS. MOSCOW, July 3. It is officially reported that the Trades Association Agency announces that tho Central Council of Russian Labour Unions have resolved to transfer to the British Miners' Federation 370 thousand roubles, which-has been collected from the members of the So v-iet Labour Unions. SETTLEAIENT PROPOSAL. LONDON, July 8. A movement is afoot to get a special Delegate Conference of the miners summoned. Some of the men’s leaders hope that the result will he a declaration of the miners in favour of the Royal Coal Commission report ns flic basis for a settlement. A FORGERY. MOSCOW, July 8. Sergius Diuzholovsky has been airested on the charge of forging the famous Zinovieff letter. MILITARY AT AN’S COMPLAINT. DELHI, July 8. Convincing evidence of the reality of the Bolshevik menace in India is furnished by Colonel Saunders, the Director of AlTlitary Intelligence in India. He states that in Afghanistan, the Soviet has given subsidies, arms and ammunition. Russian engineers, lie says, are constructing railway lines, telephone lines and roads, lhe Afghan Air Force has now Russian pilots and mechanics. The main drome of the force is at Kabul, from which frontier stations can he bombed. Kabul, he says, is now an important propaganda- centre for work in India. The Afghan Government, states Col. Saunders, sees a danger of Soviet penetration. and of being forced into war with Britain at the dictation of its Soviet friends. He also states that Russian penetration is going on on the borders of Bui-mnh. and that the movement generally is a serious menace to peace in the British possessions in the East. If the Soviet policy continues, he adds, ■lie fears war during the present generation. RELIGIOUS PLOTS. DELHI. July 8. I serious inter-communal situatior has arisen nt Pnbnii, two hundrec miles from, Calcutta, following on r clash between Hindus and Aloha mine dans over the desecration of Hindi idols, resulting in Arohammedans loot i„ s Hindu shops. The disturbance ha:

spread to outlying villages. The Moaminedans surrounded tlie police and attempted to rescue their coreligionists. Thereupon the police fired, wounding some. Indian troops are now going to Palma. PASSPORT AGREKMENT. TOKIO, July 8. The Regent has signed a JapanAmcricn agreement eaneelling all passport fees between the two countries. EMPIRE CRISIS. LONDON, July 9. At the mass meeting in the Queen’s Hall under the auspices of the Empire industries’ Association, Sir R. Horne moved a resolution in favour of the widest extension of policy of Imperial preference and of the safeguarding of Home industries. Sir Hainar Greenwood seconded the resolution which was carried with enthusiasm. Sir 11. Horne said that the country was in the grip of a crisis, which a\us paralysing the activities. Only an audacious man would claim’ to have an immediate cure, but, he said, that mitigation could he iountl in an extension and a development of markets of the Empire, an protection against foieign competition.