BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

[I!Y TKI.EGRAril —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] BEAM TESTS. (Received this day at 10. lit a.in.) LONDON. March 8. “ Going on all right,” was the only statement vouchsafed after to-day’s beam tests. No data has yet been compiled and officials say they will not venture an opinion concerning the results until evrything has bciii analysed. SHIPPING RUMOUR. LONDON. March 8. A rumour is current in shipping circles that one of the principal groups is negotiating for the purchase of the Australian Commonwealth line. A NOTED PICTURE. LONDON. March 8. Felton bequest lias pun based Cotlnian’s wafer colour.'''Landscape with, Shepherd. - ’ formerly the property of Derwent Wood. Cullman used sour paste to retard drying and facilit. :l.e the manipulation of pigment. BANK MANAGER DEAD. LONDON. March 8. Obituary—Walter Leaf, hank manager.

REBUFF TO SOVIET. ROM E. March 8. A fresh rebuff for .Moscow is contained in Cabinet's i‘itilioatinn of the* treaty the All it •. signed in Paris in 192'), awarding I’numaniu seventy thousand .square miles of Bessarabia, which Russia took in 1812. Hitherto only Rritbiin and France had ratified the treaty. Scralnja explains Italy's ratification which renders the treaty effective, had been delayed in the hope that Russia and lioumanii would negotiate directly. Italy did not desire to giro the act a hostile character towards Russia, but had no intention of evading her übligjitions. The Soviet in an anticipatory protest against Italy’s ratification refused to countenance “annexation.”