BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

EXCHANGE OF TEACHERS. LONDON, Jan. 12,

Air ALRao, the Chief Inspector of Schools of Victoria, is going home via the United States and Canada. Ho spent a month on the Continent with a group of exchange teachers from Canady. New Zealand, South Africa and Ceylon. He states that he is firmly convinced of the great value of the system of exchanging teachers, and desirableness of extending tile movement.

ENGLISH PEER’S SON. LONDON. Jan. 11. Lawrence Palk, the son and heir of l ord Ilaldon, has been arrested. Palk disappeared mysteriously from a city Office on December 28tli. with a. sum of money allegedly belonging to the office. ROUAIAXIA’S TRAGEDY. PARIS, Jan. 11. An uiicensored telegram from Roumnnia states that there is wrangling (among King Ferdinand’s doctors, which is adding to the tragedy of the King’s fight with death. The royal surgeon. Professor Juvara. is accused of diagnosing hemorrhoids, when the disease is really cancer. The rivalry between Professor Juvara and the other Royal physician. Professor Gerita, ended in each countermanding the other’s proscriptions, until Queen Afarie ordered Imth to abide by the instructions of Professor Hartman, the French surgeon.

For the purpose oT calming the public anxiety. Queen Marie asked Professor Gcritu to sign a statement that the wound had healed. Professor Gerita refused to do this, as it was untrue. Another doctor who has examined King Ferdinand states that the cancer has grown devastatingly, and that a further operation is impossible, and that his early death is inevitalj'e. The King tins normally twelve stone , in weight, and he is now only eight stone. TAN ON BACHELORS. PARTS, Jan. 11. The number of bachelors in France lias steadily increased since 1920. In that year tlio Government decreed that super-income tax on twenty-live per sent should he imposed on bachelors aged thirty. The number then (itxed was ninety thousand. Last year the number had grown to 260 thousand.

FRENCH PRESIDENT. PARIS, Jan. 12. M. Bouisson has been elected as President of the Chamber of Deputies. It is not regarded as :a Socialist success, but as a personal triumph, owing to his impartiality. He has been a Deputy since 1909. FRENCH MEMORIAL, PARIS. Jan. 12. The Cabinet lias decided to seek an appropriation to build a monument commemorating the co-operation of the French and British troops in the Battle of the Somme in 1910. STRONG QUAKE. MANILA. January 12. There was a strong earthquake felt here this morning, but no damage is reported in the eitv. DANISH KING ILL. COPENHAGEN. January 11. The King of Denmark is suffering . slightly from influenza. REMEDY FOR UNREST. LONDON. January 12. 11 Tt is not by the curtailment, but bv the extension of the trade unions’ authority, and by their admission to partnership in industrial enterprises, that the peace, stability, and continuity of production will he obtainable,” declared the Rt. Hon. Arthur Henderson in a notable speech at Falkirk, in which lie suggested that Mr Baldwin should invito the Speaker to preside over a conference of representatives of tho Trade Union Congress, the Labour Party and the Employers’ Federation, for an informal discussion of the whole industrial situation.

The Government, he urged, ought seriously to consider the creation of a. Permanent National Economic Council, or a Parliament of Industry. Half a, dozen practical, responsible men on both sides, within a few hours, coul-dr discover tho fundamental facts of any industrial situation, and find the mosteffective road to peace.

AX EMPIRE TOURNEY. LONDON. January 11. ‘ A conference will shortly he held in London of the Empire Women’s Hockey Association, with the object of forming an All-Empire Tournament in 1927. ini hiding England. Ireland. Scotland. Wales. South Africa. Australia and New Zealand. The tourney may be played in South Africa with the ideal of a half-t\ay venue. ROWING TITLE. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON. January 12. Sporting Life” has opened a fund t 0 defray the expenses of Bert Barry t„ visit Australia to row Goodsell for the world's title on the Parramata in June for which Barry is issuing a challenge.