BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

1 Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

SUBMARINE TRAGEDY. LONDON. September 15

Two courts martial have adjudicated upon the disaster to the ■ submarines 1129. One court martial found Commander Skyrme. who was commanding 1129. to have been guilty of hazarding tho submarine. He was sentenced to he reprimanded.

Tlh> jiroseeution pointed out that Commander Syrnic must have known that the submarine’s hatches were not closed, but he took no precautions regarding flooding the tanks. Commander Skyline gave evidence. Ho stated that he approved of Lieutenant AYevell’s tests, but he did not see the flooding of the tanks or otherwise he would have stopped it. He considered that the First Lieutenant should he allowed to carry out his duties with a minimum of interference from the Commander or otherwise lie would be helpless in eases of emergency.

U.S. LIQUOR LAW. LONDON, September 15.

The Daily Telegraph’s ” Genova correspondent states: “ Hie United States Prohibitionists’ costly and persistent campaign has partially succeeded, Finland. Poland and Sweden having agreed to submit a request to include dealing with alcoholism in tho League’s work. ALLIED DEBTS. BRUSSELS, September 15. The Belgian Cabinet has decided to turn down Captain Lowenstein’s offer of a ten million loan as unworthy of consideration. PARIS. September 15. The French Treasury has paid over two million sterling to Britain as the first instalment of the French debt. COST OF DISPUTE. LONDON, September 24. Tiie Westminster hank review estimates the coal dispute cost the country two hundred million sterling up to August 31st. “ COALS TO NEWCASTLE.” LONDON, September 14. The well-known paradox. “ Bringing coal to Newcastle,” has come true. Since the miners’ strike began, 124 vessels have delivered 147 (?) tons of coal at Newcastle. AN AIR. ROUTE TEST. LONDON, Sept. 15. An Air Ministry twenty-five seater troop plane, having two engines, has departed from Cairo for Aden, to make a. round trip of four thousand five hundred miles, returning via Khartoum. This is the first of a scries of cruises to test the air route arrangements, and to gain experience over tho routes not regularly flown.

KIPLING’S LATEST. LONDON, Sept. 14

Kipling’s volume of short stories and twenty-one new poems entitled “Debits and Credits,” is lreing published tomorrow. Its popularity is evidenced hv the fact that four editions are being published simultaneously. It includes a daring picture of tho gate of heaven during the war, where St. Peter is emharnssed bv the necessity of being on duty twenty-two hours out of the twen-ty-four. Heaven being run on the lines of the War Office, with innumerable departments. INQUEST VERDICT. . LONDON, Sept. 14. \ The verdict of the charabanc disaster on September 30th., wherein an express and charabanc collided at a level crossing was one of manslaughter against the dead gateporter. who the _ Coroner declared did not take a single one of the precautions printed in the Railway Company’s rules. french forest fires. PARIS, Sept. 14. Forest fires, starting in the South of France, travelled northwards, and 140 acres of the Forest of Fontainbleu wer destroyed yesterday. The fires are now raging among the newly harvested crops in the Somme and alarm is felt for the safety of the Bois-de-Boulogne.