BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuter Telegrams.] CHINESE BANDITS SHOOT PRIEST PEKING. Aug. 28. Bandits fatally sliot a Catholic priest. Father Ruyfl'elaert, of the Suivuan Vicariate, while he was travelling Shansi. The Chinese accompanying him were also killed, and Father Buyffelaert was brought to v S inail town, Kiingfiingyingtze, where he died-after receiving the last Sacranionts. FAMOUS AIRMAN KILI.ED. . NEW YORK, Aug. 28. A Philadelphia message states:— Commander Rogers, of Hawaiian flight fame, sustained a broken leg and bruises and shock when a land phiiie was wrecked on Friday and tell into the Delaware River. He was taken to the hospital, where he died {,-oni his injuries, the pain which he had endured while the seamen were working to free him from the wreckage contributing to his death. The mechanic, Samuel Schultz,. was critically injured.

SATISFIED. PARIS, Aug. 20. Znleski (cabled on the 25th.) is perfectly satisfied with the conversations. He declared that the French and Polish policies agreed and possibly a general entente might .result if Lord Cecil’s proposal dealing with the composition of the Council was slightly modified. ANGLO-R USSI AN COMMITTEE. BERLIN, Aug. 20. The Anglo-Russiiin Committee concluded a four days’ secret meeting. The fact that the meetings were protracted till midnight daily is indicative that differences on the question of uniting the Trade Union movement in Europe are bv no means overcome. The result (lf the discussions is embodied in a protocol for submission to the respective executives, and will not bo published. , , f( , FRA British delegates returned to London by aeroplane. They declined to see pressmen.