BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] ROUMANIAN PLOT. BUCHAREST, Aug. 23. A protracted police search for Communist terrorists culminated in an exciting night-time encounter. On the approach of the police, the Communists opened fire and continued till their ammunition was exhausted. The police thereupon charged and captured the hand, including Tcaclecu, who had escaped from gaol while serving ten years’ imprisonment for throwing a bomb iii the Senate; and also his cousin, the ex-Dcputy Stofanoff, who had, in his absence, been sentenced to ' twenty years’ imprisonment for Communist activities. The police state that they captured p sensational .documents, and largo sums Jfc. of money, allegedly obtained from*' Moscow, for the purpose of organising Soviet espionage. KILIM’S EXILE. PARIS, Aug. 24. Abdel Krini and family arc leaving Fez on August 27th for the Island Reunion whither they rare being exiled. IRISH AVAR MEMORIAL IN " FR ANCE. ', ./ PARIS, Aug.. 23. Marshal Joffro presided, and several high British officers were present,' at the unveiling of a monument erected at Guillemont by the Irish Free State, in memory of the Irishmen who fell in the battle* of the Somme. FRENCH LOAN. PARIS, Aug. 23. M. Poincare is issuing in Switzerland a loan of sixty million Swiss francs, redeemable during the period beginning in 192 G and ending in 1951. ■ ■ ■*' CHINESE PIRATES.

PEKING, Aug. 23. The river steamer “Mansing” was pirated during its voyage from Malojvoliow to the -Sunning district. The Chinese captain and crew, at the point of the revolver, steered to Wpngchu, where all the passengers, the entire compradore staff, andean armed gwrd of eight Chinese were carried off and made prisoners. The pirates seized the cargo and the passengers’ belongings. The majority of the passengers, numbering over one hundred, were Chinese returning from America. The master and crew were later released and they brought the steamer to port. 'Hie only * casualty was one guard, who was stabbed seriously. ANGLICAN BISHOP’S VIEW. LONDON, Aug. ,23. The Daily Press, commenting on the Bishop of London’s warning to Canada against admitting non-British immigrants, says: The question of the distribution of the population of the Empire seems to outweigh all other subjects at the coming Imperial Conference. Tt advocates transplantation on a large scale from Britain, which, for the next fifty years, should he the chief tnslc of all in the Government’s concern. GERMAN STEEL TRUST. BERLIN, Aug. 23. The Berlin bourse was crowded with an exception'll number of visitors, who eagerly awaited the announcement of the first quotation for the new German Steel Trust shares, whose introduction was unique in the bourse’s history. The shares opened at one hundred and thirty, and rose on the open market to 147 Reichmarks. The banks l«ve recently been inundated by orders totalling over double the trust’s capital cf eight hundred million marks. The shares offered to-day were reported to lx? under thirty million. The police had to protect the brokers’ offices,. so great was the rush of investors. IMPORTED LABOUR PESTS. VANCOUVER, August 21. Sir William Vicars sailed on Wednesday for Sydney. Addressing the Canadian Club on the subject of Australian industrialism he said Labour should get rid of imported pests who agitate the minds of efficient, sturdy Australian workers.