BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

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DE PINEDO’S LATEST. LONDON, Feb. 14. Tile Alarchese De Pinedo, the Italian airman, has arrived at Riodoro, thereby completing a two thousand miles flight in two stages. ER IT! SH EAIIG It ATI ON, LONDON. Feb. 13. The Overseas Settlement Department is asking for supplementary appropriations for assisted passengers for the fical year ending on March 31st. including for Australia. £00.(X)0; for Now Zealand £20,093 and for Canada £40,000. It is antiepaled that the coming year will require further Canadian increases, owing to the operation of the “Two Pound” scheme. New Zealand is now expected to remain static. The Department is satisfied New Zealand is absorbing immigrants t<J the limit of her capacity. Regarding Australia, it is expected that, the activities and developments of the Migration Commission will ultimately quicken the flow of migration there.

OPERA STAR. LONDON, Feb. FT

The Hungarian singer, Aladamo Peachy, has decided to sue Daly’s for damages for her theatrical dismissal. The amount mentioned is five thousand sterling. BRITISH COX 31DERATTOX. LONDON. Fob. 15. Tn the House of Commons. Air Baldwin answering Afr Rennie Smith (Labour) said President Coolidge’s armament proposals were under the Government's most earnest consideration, hut it was too early to make any statement on the subject. ITALY'S CONDITIONS. LONDON. Fell. 15. The “Daily Alail’s” Rome correspondent states: Signor Mussolini’s reply to President Coolidge suggests that Italy may participate in a conference on the condition that she does not thereby accept a further limitation of her naval programme. BR ITISII I N YESTK j AT fON. LONDON, Feb. 15. President Coolidge’s naval disarmament proposals are (wing"examined by experts of the Foreign Office, the Admiralty and the Dominions Office, which are in consultation, says the "Daily Telegraph,” and v.-hon their sectional reports therei n are completed. they will l.e referred to the Committee ot Imperial Defence for a general strategic survey 1 efore being considered by the Cabinet. The difficulty of reaching a concrete solution in the absence of France is fully realised in London. Beyond the alternative, attributed to While House, of a threepower. instead of a five-power conference. It is hinted hero that, the Honrst press suggests that the AngloAmerican naval pact may he vigorously revised.

IAfPF.RTAL RELATIONS. LONDON, Feh. 15. The Colonial Secretary, Air Amery, replying to Viscount Sandon (Con.) in the House of Commons, to the desirableness of developing a system of person:il contact between London and the Dominions, said this had been affirmed at tho Imperial Conference, but it y*,is a matter tor discussion with the Governments concerned To some extent, negotiations had teen in progress. BISHOP DEAD. (Received this dav at S a.m.) PEKING. Feb. 15. Obituary—Eishor> C. P. Scott. TX PORTED VL. LISBON, Fch. 14. I’he Portugeuse Government has issued a decree that the revolutionaries shall 1" tried without a jurv. but that their sentences, will he subject to continuation by the Court of Appeal. Aforeover. the Instigators will be made responsible for the damage caused by the bombardment. The Republican Guard will he disbanded. and all ihc political clubs and associations concerned in the revolt wLI| ho dissolved. RK PIN EDO’S FLY. LONDON. Feb. 5. Do T’inodo. flying at night, in the hope of saving a day on the Atlantic crossing, left Rio Do Orov at eleven last night. The hvdrordnne passed over Cane Verde going splendidly. The aviators < xno, t to reach Barnnmtmco to-morrow.