BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuter Telegrams.] SIR J. PARR. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 20. Sir James and Lady Parr visited Southampton, paying their first visit since appointment. They farewelled migrants by the Ruapehu, including twenty public school hoys and thirty domestics. They describe the latter as,a healthy useful type. Sir James Parr told the hoys they were going to a land of promise. He found every adult party already had relatives in New Zealand, who had secured employment and housing for them beforehand. GREEK CABINET. ATHENS, Aug. 20. Pangalos has been transferred to Crete where lie will he detained in Izzodin prison. Tn accordance with the decision of the Party leaders to form a Cabinet of Service, consisting of civilians, headed by General Kondylis ;l s head of the National Democratic party, Kondylis formed a Cabinet with himself as Minister of War and Marine; Argyropoulos (ex-Ministor at Anfora), Foreign Affairs; Professor Triandaiilsopoulos, of communications; Papas, who is a distinguished surgeon, will bo Minister of Public Instruction; Drossoponlosco (Governor of the National Bank of Greece), Minister of Finance; Nekes (who is a lawyer), Minister of Agriculture.

TURKISH TRIALS. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 26. The second trial arising out of the alleged plot against the life of Mustapha Kemal, ended in a number of ex-members of the Committee of Union and Progress being charged with instigating a conspiracy. The exFinnnco Minister, Djnvid Bey, Nazim Bey, Nail Bey and Hilini Bey were sentenced to death. GERMAN SUBMARINES. LONDON. August 20. In reference to Paris reports that Germany ihas sold Russia eight submarines which- ought to have been destroyed under the Versailles Treaty, the “Morning Post’s” Berlin correspondent learns that all the old submarines were destroyed under the Allied Naval Commission’s supervision. It is pointed out the Treaty does not prevent German firms working either in Germany or in neutral lands, supplying Russia with, all the requisite parts for submarines. The “Evening Standard’s” diplomatic correspondent states the Commission on disarmament has called the attention of British, French, Italian, Japanese and Belgian Governments to the discovery that Germany has arranged for the construction of submarines in Holland.