BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] OPINIONS ON DISASTER. PARISj September 22. The newspapers arc of opinion that Fonek’s disaster was due to insufficient preparations. He should have made trials with a. full load. Sonic suggest that the delays were due to lack of confidence in the machine. Some experts say it would have been a miracle if Fonck had succeeded. OCEAN COLLEGE SUGGESTED. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, cScpt. 22. The British Empire Union is considering a project of inaugurating Imperial Ocean Colleges, using sailing ships of two thousand to three thousand tons, accommodating a hundred students between sixteen to nineteen years old, under a chaplain, doctor and three masters, who .should conduct a scholastic curriculum while voyaging about the Empire for nine months, via Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and India. The students should visit the cities and farms in each Dominion, learning the conditions of life and industry, in order to determine 1 which career they prefer, also u bother in Britain or the Dominions. WOMAN’S RECORD JUMP. LONDON. Sept. 22. 1 Muriel Gunn., an English girl, jump- ' oil 219-jJin. at Battersea Park, beating the world’s record recently established at Gothenburg by a Japanese girl, Hitomi. i AIRWAYS. LONDON, Sept. 22. Only after Sir E. Geddes had promised to consider the postponement of a further call oil capital, did the eriti- , cal shareholders adopt the report main- . ly owing to the Company’s twenty ( thousand loss demanding the winding up. Geddes in explaining said the loss , was partially due to the substitution , of multi-engineered machines costing sixty-three thousand for single engine valued at nineteen thousand, which were all scrapped owing to greater , public confidence in the former, 1 though flie delay in delivering enforced a refusal of considerable traffic. The public demand for accommodation in Imperial machines was a sufficient 1 'demonsyrn'.tioii 0 f Hie confidence in ' the fleet’s efficiency, which was nowrecognised las of the highest standard in tho world. Further capital necessitating a call of 10s per share was required solely for the development of Empire air routes. Sir Herbert Humbling, one of the Government directors 1 strongly supported Geddes. i) COMMERCIAL. LONDON, Sept. 22. s The tallow sales were not held. 1 At the wool sales there was a good 1 selection of merinos and greasy cross- t breds suitable for Yorkshire top mule- 11 ing. Price were very firm for all sorts * ll at full Into rates. New Zealand, Tekapo 46.]. DELHI, Sect. 22. A filial forecast of tho Indian jute yield shows a record crop of nearly eleven million bales,- each containing J four hundred pounds, an increase of to million over last year. There are J 3630 Thousand acres under jute, an t increase of 515 thousand acres. I 1 BEAUTY CONTEST. * (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) ; LONDON, Sept. 23. I'j From the seclusion of a Piccadilly V roof to-day. the judges seeking the most beautiful girl in Groat Britain, -j critically looked over twelve lovely girls out of .the sixteen hundred competitors. They kind to show then a knees as well as their teeth and fanswer many personal questions |, Three were chosen: ivy Ellison, who , was recently given a cinema position as s a result of a newspaper beauty contest; Ada Phillips, aged eighteen, from ~ Birmingham, who needed much reas- [ buring before consenting to remove hei r lint, because she said “ My hair needs waving”; and Norami Rose, age seventeen, from laiiuhurgh. now appearing in a small part in ‘•Rosemarie.” All three, are brunettes with v grey or dark blue eyes. The winnei will he sent to America to compete y with other international beauties for the prize of £IOOO and a five year's f cinema engagement. [ AIRWAYS LTD MEETING. ' LONDON. September 22. Sir Eric Geddes at the annual meeting of the Imperial Airways Limited announced the company’s services to Egypt and India would commence . January, the machines being similar . to those used in the European ser- „ vices. Hoare, wife and staff’ would make tho first flight from London t" Karachi. Emphasising the growth ol public feeling of safety in flying. Geddes said the Coifipany in the first months of the current financial year i carried more passengers than during the whole of the previous year. The development of Imperial air routes ought not .to he stunted by parsimonious Government assistance. .I 1 ranee , gave civil aviators subsidies totalling four hundred thousand sterling and , Germany half a million compared with Britain’s £137,000. Lacy (a shareholder) in objecting to the calling up of all authorised capital moved that the Company be wound up. The motion was declared out of order. The directors undertook to try to delay the call. LOXGUEVAL MEMORIAL. LONDON. September 22. Lieut. Mildenhnll represented the New Zealand High Commissioner at at the unveiling of the French war memorial at Longueval. The Mayor sent greetings to the people of New Zealand. He said the honoured name o l ' New Zealand -would live long in the memory of the people of Longueval and Flers. A wreath from New Zealand comrades was laid on the monument. N.Z. FISHING. LONDON, September 22. The New Zealand office reports the publicity campaign has resulted in increasing the number of sportsmen inquiring" about sailings to New Zealand for trout and swordfishing. VENEZELOS DECLINES. LONDON. September 22. Au Athens correspondent states Venezelos declined nil offer of tlio Greece Presidency. A PACT, LONDON. September 22. A Riga correspondent states advices from Kovno report the Soviet has eoneluded a noil-aggression pact with Lithuania. The pact contains a clause recognising Vilna as Lithuanian territory. . HOPES OF SETTLEMENT. 1 CONTINUOUS CONFERENCES. 1 LONDON. Sept. 22. t Following last night’s interview with t Mr Baldwin, the Miners ’Executive for the first time put forward a specific e proposal as the basis of a coal sett-le-t ment. There were a series of Importt ant meetings to-day. The, executive e remained in continuous session all day. while the leaders in the afternoon had a long conference with Cabinets’ Coal Committee at the Ministry of Labour. The Miners’ leaders later went to i) Downing 'Street to see Air Baldwin, and attempted the cover their tracks

liv leaving the Ministry of Labour by the back door and proceeding by a devious route to Downing Street. At 5.30 the remainder of the executive, who were on the tip-toe of expectancy for an important development, learned they would not be required further till to-morrow. The Stock Exchange tone in the afternoon improved markedly on ail unconfirmed rumour that the strike was settled; Later it was announced that Cabinet negotiations would lie resumed to-morroiv. DUTCH MUTINY’. HAGUE, Sept. 22. Tiie Asseii mutiny is one of several deplorable incidents of recent months. The fewness of the casualties was dec, to a majority of the Guards’ Regiment when the commander ordered them to fire refusing and the? bthers fired high, the bullets lodging in the roofs of houses. The only death wars of a sergeant looking on from a distance. The mutineers fled, lint returned to their barracks at night time, when sevora l were arrested. It is pointed out that the mutiny was due to growing Dutch anti-militarist movements in connection with which democratic labourites held the annual disarmament demonstration on 20th. Sept, at which eighty thousand attended. The “Handelsblatt” declares the revolutionaries arc systematically breaking down the Army’s discipline, and it constitutes a grave danger to tho young conscripts.