BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuter Telegrams.] COMMONER DEAD. , (Received tliis day at 11.0 a.in.) LONDON. Aug. 2-1. Obituary.—Swift Mae Neill, a member of the Hffti.se of Commons. GERMAN DEL EG AT I OX. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) BERLIN, Aug. 24. It is officially stated that tno German delegation to the League of Nations will only go to Geneva when it his been definitely established that there will be no obstacles to Germany a admittance. CHANNEL SWIMMERS FAIL. (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 24. Since Miss Ederle’s conquest there have been numerous aspirants to swim the Channel. No less than six started last night hut all gave up owing to 1 various causes after hours of fruitless effort. Otto Kommerieh, at the end of six hours’ swimming collided with a large fish, variously described as a dog-fish, .porpoise and shark. He was dragged from the water semi-con-scious rind in great pain. Three women aspirants succumbed to sickness caused by the roughness of the sea which was so great that the wa\cs were dashing aboard the accompanying tugs. STOWAWAYS. LONDON, Aug. 21. Four youths, aged 17. who were imprisoned for stowing away on the Opa'va, which was hound for New Zealand informed the magistrate that they and fifteen others who were discovered before they left Liverpool, desired to find work in New Zealand. hour reached Colon before being discovered and were sent hack. ON HOLIDAY BENT. • PARIS, Aug. 21. Several newspapers draw attention to the fact |lmt the international financial lenders are spending a holiday in Aix Los Baines, including Baldwin, Lome, Mellon, Strong, Parker, Gilbert. The “Libeite” declares the assembly is not a mere coincidence. It says Senator Dupuy a member of the financial deputation which Caillaux sent to Washington has arrived at Aix Les Baines with instructions to open semi-official inter-AUied debt settlement negotiations.