BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable'Association.] CHINESE CAPTURE. PEKIN, August 15-. Fengticn troops captured Nunkou Pass. Pekin is bedecked with flowers in celebration of the reported fall of the Pass. His Majesty’s gunboat Woodlark from Hankow to Changsha was fired on by Chinese troops. Tho Woodlark did not return the fire. There were no casualties. NEW REVENUE CHANNEL. LONDON, Aug. 14. A huge scheme of advertising liy means of postmark dies on letters and postcards has been introduced by tbo Postmaster-General. It is available for business men, societies, and municipalities. Advertisements on millions of letters have already been booked at a scale of charges varying according to the area it is desired to cover. AN AFRICAN VIEW. (Received this day a!. 9.0 a.m.'. CAPETOWN, August 15. The “ Nation.” the Nationalist English weekly, supposed to represent tho official view, in discussing the Imperial Conference, says there is every reason to suppose that South Africa, Canada and "tike. Irish Free State will stand shoulder to shoulder for the practical approval of the Dominion status. Australia and New Zealand stand on the other side. This is not unexpected, so far as New Zealand is concerned, because they never fully emerged from tlio swaddling clothes of colony-hood. The case is different with Australia, where tlio birth cry of an awakening nationhood from time to time has been heard. It is with some surprise, therefore that 51 r Bruce’s denial of the claim of the Dominions to an independent status under the British crown has been heard. It is not imppssible for Australia to fear that.the cost may have prompted slr Bruce’s conservative attitude. Even so, not improbably, his views will call forth repudiation. even in Australia. Referring to slr Bruce’s remark that sympathy and interest should be shown to the ideals and aspriations of other Dominions, the paper concludes with these words: “ Give us a reason to hope that Australia, even though she may not choose an independent status under the British crown for herself, nevertheless, will not only not oppose, but even view with sympathy, the claim of other Dominions to whom as slr Ilertzog said, international independence has become an unavoidable national need.

KITCHENER MYSTERY. [Received this day at 8.30 a.in.) LONDON, Aug. 15. Scotland Yard late last night took action regarding tho casket brought by Frank Power from Norway, alleged to contain the bodv of Lord Kitchener.

Power in an interview, declared he desired the Government to bike charge of the affair. The coffin is now aji Westminster mortuary. It is understood it will be opened in the presence of a Coroner on 'Monday, LABOUR. AND AMERICA. (Received this dav at 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 15. Mr Cook, at to Mr Baldwin’s cable to America in which it denied the miners’ wives and children were starving said the leader of the Labour Party had been asked to reply, but would not. Mr Llovd George was going to d ! > so and the was going to tell the truth. Mr Cook added that twenty thousand sterling had already come from America. He denied that he had latterly climbed down.