BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

CHANNEL SWIMMER FAILS. LONDON, Aug. 3. A New Yorker, Aliss Barratt, starting from Dover abandoned the Channel swim exhausted, two miles off Cape Gris Nez. . A CONTRADICTION. LONDON, Aug. 3. The • “Dpily Chronicle,” commenting on Sir Austen Chamberlain’s reply, claims that it holds documentary evidence proving that fie has been misinformed. The “Chronicle” states that the actual sale of munitions was to have been from the British Government to a. Birmingham, firm, but tliq Government knew that this firm was only buying the munitions to resell them, and the Government had expressly authorised the resale to Turkey. Tho “Daily Chronic£e” adds: “Sir Austen Chamberlain is correct in saying that there is nothing in the law of nations to prevent the sale and resale of the armaments, but, if he means that there life no strong moral and political objections, then we entirely disagree with him. Do Ministers recognise how much the cause of world peace stands or falls with the cause of disarmament?” The “Daily Chronicle” emphasises that the munitions here concerned nre the actual property of the Government and are located at the Government stores. ■

ASIATIC UNITY. TOKYO, Aug. 3. Adopting “The League of Asiatic Peoples,” ns its official name, the Pan-Asian Congress has concluded. The delegates expressed their, satisfaction with the success of this first step towards Asiatic unity, which they say, is bound to affect the world in the nob distant future. r , .

INDIAN COTTON ORDERS. DELHI, Aug. 2.

Resulting from heavy loss of piece goods which the merchants of Calcutta have sustained through the repeated communal right, the M invari Chamber of Commerce, the mpst influential body of Indian trailers, have requested the members not to place forward contracts for foreign piece goods for. defined periods. Too effect of this will be that no piece goods trade with Manchester will lie done for four months. Tho normal imparts, amounting to twenty-six million sterling per year, will be reduced by one-third.

HIGH COALMISSIONER

[“ The Times ” Service.] (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 3. The High Commissioner should rank officially'and popularly next to tlio Premiership, said Sir James Allen, in an interview. He was convinced tho relations between Downing Street and the Dominions should he carried on through the progressive development of the High Commissioner’s office. The system would work well in proportion a s the responsibilities of the High Commissionersliip were realised in the Dominions. It would he of first importance that the best possible man be obtained and he must be, fully trusted. Nothing would be gained by attempting to make the appointment non-political, as playing to party, and being a partisan were not the same thing. Personal experience of Dominion politics is almost a decisive advantage to tlie High Commissionersliip. Sir J. Allen said he considered Hon. Amery’s weekly meetings can be extended, if the Dominions accepted the High Commissioners to go to the Foreign Office. Downing Street, particularly. was ready to co-operate hut the Dominions were slow to take advantage. The Premiers were reluctant to do” anything which might seem to diminish their own responsibility. Everything should he concentrated on the High Commissioner’s branch. If the various duties were divided, it would inevitably result in a lack of co-operation and diminution of the officers’ prestige.

COMING MARRIAGE. LONDON, July 3. Air R. L. Raymond, a Sydney-ite, is engaged to lie married to Miss Kathleen "Williams, graml-daughter of William Austin, the first barrister to settle in Dunedin. She is a daughter of Airs Price Williams who managed tho. Afanehester Branch of the New Zealand Red Cross during the war. PORKFTT’S' SUCCESS. , LONDON. July 3. At Oxford University tho New Zealander. Porritt, passed in Afateria Medics Pathology,