BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

(Australian ifc N.Z. Cable Association.]

HEROES OF ANTARCTIC

LONDON, July 28,

The Captain Scott Mission House Fund has closed, totalling £84,007. Books covering the scientific results of the exhibition have been published at a cost of £19,300 while £38,512 has been devoted to the support of tho relatives of the dead, and £27,500 has been set aside for future Polar research and for the upkeep of the Scott Memorial Museum at Cambridge. A stately memorial in bronze and "granite has been cretcd at Devonport, Scott’s birthplace. A tablet has been erected in St. Paul s Cathedial and £SOO has been contributed to Captain Oates’s regimental memorial.

DESERT MOTOR VENTURE.

LONDON, July 27

A powerful Anglo-French group have bought the Nairn Transport Company in the Near East, inaugurated by the New Zealand brothers Nairn, as cabled on the 21st of June. Mr Nornmn Nairn will be managing director of the new company, the main object of which will he to further develop and extend tho Baghdad-Daniascus route. New six wheeled motors will he used, comple - ing the journey in 24 hours, and making the journey from London to Baghdad in eight days, compared with -2 days'by sea.

dramatic arrest,

PARIS, July 28 - The police have effected a dramatic arrest, that of Sacliastavisky, a Pole. It j s alleged that lie carried out olio of the biggest financial swindles of recent times, defrauding hankers and exchange agents of huge sums by means of false cheques. Half a dozen detectives, armed with revolvers, burst into ■a house where Sacliastavisky was living in princely style, maintaining as guests a, group of followers, including Hem i llayotti (his secretary) and Al'lette Simon (his mistress). Dinner was about to be served to a dozen guests, whnui the police held up while Sachastavisky was discovered hiding in an antechamber. The arrest was made in the nick of time, for ft was to have been a farewell party before Sacliastaviskv left Tor Switzerland. Two limousines were already piled up with luggage ready for 'liis departure after dinner. Sacliastavisky and liis secretary arc in custody, and Arlette Simon is in a nursing home under supervision.

A DESPOILER. PARIS, July 28. A statue in Place Tetats, Unis, in memory of America’s fallen in the war, representing, a Doughboy holding out his hand to a Poilu, was smashed with a hammer by a Russian named Caromenko, who when arrested declared lie acted- as a. protest against America’s refusal to cancel the French debt, thereby inflicting suffering on tbe workers.

BAD FLOUR. LONDON, July 28. Apropos of claims for Australian B. Grade flour that were recently mentioned in the House of Commons, tho ‘Daily Telegraph,” oil the authority of a member of the Baltic Exchange, states tho flour in question was shipped in 1920. The British merchants who bought fifteen hundred tons of it lost twenty-one thousand sterling. The present claim, with tho law costs and interest, amounts to thirty thousand. A member of tbe Baltic Exchange explains that, owing to lack of freights during the war, wheat and Hour were stored in Australia for several years. Through exposure and damage by rats and mice, the flour became unfit for human consumption, hut the Victorian Government certified this shipment as fit for human consumption. Trouble arose in South Africa over a similar consignment. Eventually the Commonwealth paid £115,000 as ex-gratia compensation. Similar claims from Japan were settled out of court. The member of the Baltic Exchange adds: “The next move rests with Mr Bruce.” ,

THE DRY LA AY. LONDON, July 27

In the House of Commons, Mr G. Locker Lampson outlined the results of a conference held at the Foreign Office between General Andrews and other American delegates and British officials for the purpose of establishing a close-working liaison to deal with rum-running. Air Locker Lampson said it involved no question of policy or politics. The liaison to be established would enable both sides to assist each other to secure the strict observance of the law, and thus reduce the causes of complaint and misunderstanding materially. There would be no extension of the right of search and no interference with legitimate trade.

AAIPTHILL PEERAGE. (Received this dnv at S a.m.) LONDON, July 28. There was an echo of the Russell divorce case, when Justice Swift granted a petition for a- declaration of legitimacy of Geoffrey Russell, establishing tho right to succeed to Die Ampthill peerage.