BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

THE ROYAL VISIT. LONDIN, July 2G. It is officially announced that the Duke and Duchess of York will visit New Zealand in 1927. AEROPLANE SMASH. BAGHDAD, July 26. In the aeroplane smash at Hinaidi seven persons were killed and one seriously injured. HOUSE OF LORDS. LONDON, July 26. In the House of Lords, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, drew attention to the new situation in connection with tho coal dispute. He asked the Government to reopen negotiations for settlement on lines of the commissions report. Viscount Cecil replied that tho Government could not agree to the continuation of the subsidy nor pledge, themselves to provide a limited subsidy of three millions offered in June. Nevertheless tho Government did not desire a fight to a finish. The Government favoured arbitration and accepted the commissions reports. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. LONDON, July 26. Susannah, Bevan, cabled 14th July, was committed for trial. STRANDED PORT KEMBLA. LONDON, July 26. Latest report regarding the Port Kembla. is that the ship’s position is unchanged. Extra- salvage vessels and equipment are arriving to discharge two thousand tons of cargo. AIR SMASH. LONDON, July 27. A Vickers-Vernon troop-carrying aeroplane crashed upon the roof of the aerodrome at .Hinaidi, nclir Baghdad, killing seven. This is the twentyfifth such crash of the year, and it is the worst aeroplane accident since the war, except the Croydon disaster on Christmas Eve 1924, when eight were killed. LONDON, July 27. The “Daily News” states that inquiries show that Russo-British diplomatic circles decline to confirm or to deny the report from Baghdad that the destroyed biplane was a large carrier that accommodated twelve passengers and two pilots. A seventh victim was working in a shed that was crushed by the falling plane. Tlio cause of the disaster is unKnown.

JAPAN’S FEARS. VICTORIA (-8. C.), Jluy 26. The Australians have irritated Japan by their policy of the “ White Australia.” This is because the suggestion of their inferiority is implied, rather than because Japan wishes to go to the island continent. This was the declaration of Major General J. H. McBrien, tho chief of the General Staff of the Canadian Militia, when addressing the Canadian Club here to-day. Ho said that Japan was watching anxiously for any steps that the United States may take for the establishment of an aviation station in the Alentian Islands, and the fear that the United States may attempt to dominate tho North Pacific \\jas also fostered in Japan by the continued fortification of Pearl Harbour and other Hawaiian bases, while, at the same time, Japanese have (realised that the completion of the Panama Canal has doubled the effectiveness in the Pacific of the naval strength of the United States. “ It is the irony of fate,” ho added, “that the United States, which compelled Japan to abandon her isolation, should find Japan her greatest rival in the Far Eastern trade.”

HOME WHEAT PRICES IMPROVE LONDON, July 26.

Wheat cargoes have firmed by threepence to ninepence on strong American reports. Parcels in near positions have advanced threepence to' a shilling, owing to a strong consumptive demand. Liverpool future are: July 11s 10id per bushel, October 11s ofd, December 10s llid.

THE WOMEN MINISTERS . LONDON, July 27. The Pastoral Session of the Wesleyan Conference, by 201 to 149 votes, referred back to a representative conference the decision advocating the admission of women to the Ministry. METAL MARKET. LONDON, July ,27. Copper is £SB 8s 9d and £59 3s 9d per ton; lead £32 16s 3d and £32 10s; spelter £34 5s and £34 12s 6d; tin 0289 2s 6d and £284 2s 6d; silver, standard 20Vd per oz. fine 31 13-l Cd. LATE TSAR’S FORTUNE. LONDON, July 26. A former attache of the Tsar’s court informs the Italian newspapers that Tsar Nicholas deposited his fortune in London at the outbreak of the war, and tkit, of this, despite withdrawals to alleviate Russian distress, twelve million plus interest remains. The Tsar’s surviving relatives desire King George or King Emanuel to arbitrate on its disposal, blit they cannot legally prove the Tsar is dead.

NOVEL ROBBERY PLAN. BUCHAREST, July 27. Armed bandits adopted a novel scheme of wholesale plunder. They set fire to the Tlesaleigu Theatre at Braila, Roumania, during an evening performance. When the building was .beginning to blaze, some of the gang rushed to the auditorium and compelled the panic-stricken public to give up valuables at the point of their revolvers. Other -bandits penetrated the dressing rooms, and carried off the wardrobes of the actors and actresses. The gang finally escaped in the general disorder.

RUSSIAN HELP. MOSCOW, July 27. It is semi-officially announced that the receipts from the trade unions for the relief of the British miners in May and June and in tiie first 20 days of July exceeded four million roubles.

CLOSING THE CHURCHES. MEXICO CITY. July 26. There were interesting scenes of religious ardour throughout Mexico yesterday. The adherents of the Catholic Church -being under the belief that these were to be the last regular masses that would he held before the compulsory closing of the churches. They were crowded with communicants starting at five in the morning. Many thousands of couples were married, after hurrying their wedding arrangements. A hundred of the couples were married in a single church.

Senor Calles (President) announced that these new laws were forced upon the Government by a seditious attitude on the part of the clergy, and starting from next Sunday, the priests will assume the status of private individuals. The church properties will be then turned over to the personal responsibility of leading Catholics.