BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

[llY TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] MADMAN’S ACT. (Received this day nt 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, March G. A force of police, lliree fire engines and several hundred people besieged tin' baker’s shop of .Joseph Hayward in Kentish Town, who bad been certified for removal to an asylum, lie locked himself in a bedroom, armed with a revolver, and refused anybody admittance. Firemen vainly used hose. The police finally started to force the door whereupon three shots were fired through the door. The fourth splintered a window causing a crowd to scatter. The police waited for an interval and then broke down (lie door and found Hayward dying from a wound in the temple, with u fin., chambered rvolvcr in bis band. He died on the way to the hospital.

COMPARISONS. LONDON. March f>. Conditions at Paris and Rerlin today present an amazing comparison. Paris is virtually quiet and grave with no foreigners in Montmartre, lights are out and the cafes closed, and fantastic prices are charged for dishes previously an al l faction to tourists. One strawberry, a florin; asparagus, ten shillings; ordinary wines doubled, and fines wines increased. While scanning the menu of Berlin, the city Is blazing with lights, night life is the gayest in Europe. Cabarets and dancing saloons are springing up amazingly and the streets are thronged after midnight. The city is a bewildering maze of illuminated signs, each street vying with the other in the brilliance of its illumination and diversity of entertainment in the hope of achieving the distinction of being the chief centre of the glittering night life. Lights are unlowered until dawn when the othei Rerlin rises to its feet, the Berlin of work, lasting and frugality.

PRIVY COUNCIL. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON. March 0. J. 11. Morgan. Professor of Constitutional Law at the University College, London, lecturing on the judicial committee of l’rivy Council, described the Committee’s reports us the treasury of the Empire’s common law The committee being noil-parochial, treated Rich Dominion as a. law until itself. The day had gone by when the Imperial Government would oppose a restriction or even abolition of an appeal when a Dominion so demanded. For example, AustiUlia’s limitation of appeal was a constitutional interpretation. Personally ho was convinced that a plebiscite of Empire would overwhelmingly favour the retention of appeals. A LIBEL ACTION. PRAGUE, March (I. General Gyda who was degraded and deprived of military rank, following upon a charge of spying foi the Soviet, won a libel action against Colonel Kratoehvil. Gyda contended that if incriminating documents were in existence they were forgeries, and took action against Kratochvial as the instigator of the campaign agjiinst him. The Court vindicated Gyda and sentenced Kratoehvil to six weeks imprisonment with a fine of six thousand crowns. A crowd of Fascists cheered Gyda as he left the Court. MISSING AIRMEN. MADRID. March G. Preparations are being made at Casablanca to send a relief expedition carrying medical supplies and lood to ascertain iirst, u Bruges and companions are under the wreck; secondly, if tliev are not found to explore the widorness and shore near the spot whore the plane lies smashed. Inc opinion is expressed here that the fliers lost direction and using luol in an effort to recover were obliged finally to make the best landing possible. It is thought that the 'airmen even R injured, may have lieen able to crawl ashore and take cover from the tropical sun. This theory has some weight when it is remembered that the French fliers Bussoutrot and Joiisse were loveed down practically it the same plain in 1920 and wandered in the wilderness before being found bv another aeroplane. EUPESCi: INTERV lE\Vl£T>. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, March 0. Lady Drummond Hay, in the ‘ Daily Express” had an interview vitli_Madame Lupescu, who is living quietly in n pretty two-storied villa in the outskirts of Paris with Prince Carol. She ga i<l; ”1 have not dragged Carol from the Throne, and am" not holding him Pack. He has not renounced the Throne because of me, as the world ifalsely told. I am neither a siren, eirce nor a vainuire. merely a loyal friend, ami no ’obstacle to Prime Carol’s allegiance to duty. I did not mu away with him. I met him by accident at '.Milan, when lie was unhappy. lonely and surrounded by enemies, and felt unashamed of the friendship T did not hesitate to accompany him in his hour ol need. Peiliaps it is an impetuous and forgetful evil-rlii tided world. Hilt dear me. wlmt scandal, what excitement. Ours is no vulgar love affair. Carol needed and still needs a friend. Therefore T stay as far" as I know at present, and will remain here where we are happiest. We never go to Paris. Carol is no reveller, despite In's terribly dashing reputation. He does not drink and really is not half as romantic as lie is made out. He is just a gentleman, but because be is a King’s son and boil to a Throne, is subject to wonderfully untrue tales. W o lead one of fhc quietest lives imaginable and intend going on si in i Isi.rl v if we can be left alone. Why should we cure ? A\p don’t.”