BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] NEW IRISH PARTY. LONDON, Sept. 13. Scenes of extraordinary enthusiasm greeted Captain William Archer Redmond, Mr Thomas O’Connell, and other former members of the old Irish Nationalist Party of the British House of Commons, at Waterford, where a new Free State Parliamentary Opposition party was initiated by Captain Redmond and his colleagues, on Saturday. They were given a triumphal torchlight procession through the city today. '1 lie street lamps were garlanded with streamers which hung across the roads' and many bands were present. Special trains poured in supporters from a large area.

Captain Redmond, speaking at a crowded meeting, declared that the time had come for Ireland to make a fresh start. With her traditional patriotism, he said, Ireland, must re-assert herself. They must form a strong cohesive opposition, who would be prepared strictly to scrutinise the present Government’s policy, and would ho ready to take over the reins of Government.

GALLIPOLI PILGRIMS. LONDON, Sept. 12.

Two hundred of the men and women belonging to the St. Barnabas Pilgrimage, who have spent three weeks visiting the graves of soldiers and relatives at Salonika and Gallipoli returned to London to-niglit. Every one of them agreed that their five thousand mile journey was a pilgrimage in the truest sense. Their eyes were heavy with tears when they left, buff they had returned with a glow of happiness. “A wonderful sense of peace possessed me since I commenced my return journey,” said Mrs Aitkcn, from Glasgow. “I was the first woman to land at Kelic Bay. My son served in the A.I.F. and I identified his grave on Lone Pine, and I brought hack treasures that can never he taken from \ me.” ' The party visited twenty-seven military cemeteries, and every one of them found thc-ir loved ones’ tombs. COBHAM DELAYED. LONDON. September 12. Messages from Bangoon state that there has been no further news of Captain C'obham since he landed at Victoria Point, whence the only communication is by passing steamers. The long delay suggests that Cobliam’s seaplane has been damaged. BASH A. September 12. Out of three Arabs who have been arrested in connection with the death of Elliott. Cobham’s mechanic, two have been released, while the third, who has been employed as a deer hunter by a local Shiek, has been committed for trial on October 22ud. the evidence against him being stated to be oyeriy helming.