BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1926, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

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A LABOUR CIRCULAR. LONDON, July 25

The “ Daily Mail ” spates Henderson circularised the affiliated Labour organisations warning them against disruptive Communist tactics. Despite these efforts the Communists every-, where are forming local trades councils, hoping to control the trades union movement. 'Jibe “ Daily News ” states the Council of the Independent Labour Party lias issued a manifesto calling for a general election on the coal issue beeiutc the Government is not equal to dealing with the crisis and devoid of any policy' except starving the miners into submission.

BELGIAN ACTION. BRUSSELS, July 25

AVliilu the misfortune of French finance will assuredly react on the Belgian franc, every effort is being made to stem tlie panic. The King and Queen of the Belgians are setting an example by denying themselves luxuries. From to-morrow they will share with the meanest, the Government’s grey bread, the universal use of which is expected to save half a million francs daily. Resentment is shown in Brussels against American, German and Dutch tourists. The Government has decreed the closing of cabarets, cafes and dance halls in order to discourage tourists. FOG CAUSES WRECKS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) TOKIO, July 26. A dense fog is reported responsible for two wrecks. The American freighter West Faralon struck a reef . off Oshima shortly after Leaving Yokohama for Kobe, while the Hakuho Marti went aground off Boso Peninsular, near the entrance to Tokyo Bay. The Hakuho was bound from America £o Yokohama with a cargo of lumber. Ff.OOD FATALITIES. (Received this dav at 8 a.m.) TOKYO, July 26. ■(Seventeen are dead and eighteen missing and seventy* badly injured- as the result of floods in Kaiynn, Korea. Two hundred houses were destroyed and a thousand flooded. Dvsentry has broken out among the refugees. A FALSE ALARM. LONDON, July 26. A Portsmouth message says that it has now been ascertained /that there is no question of espionage involved in connection with the “ Suffolk’s ” 'plans. An officer engaged in her construction made a drawing for !his own information, and lost it, hut it disclosed no confidential information. The authorities are satisfied with the explanation. , FREIGHTER. CRASHES INTO PIER. PEKIN, July 16. Fourteen people were i killed or drowned and scores injured when the Japanese freighter, Tnishomaru crashed into a pier at Shanghai in avoiding a junk. QUESTION TN COMMONS. LONDON, July 26. In the Commons, Sir Frederick Wise asked if Hon Amery would place on the agenda of the Imperial' Conference the suspension of the Trustee Act, i 960, ns regards Dominion loans, for three years, owing to the British Government’s large conversion loans falling due during the coming three years. Mr Amery replied : “Certainly not.” He added that the adoption of the suggestion would injure Empire development. ,