BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[BY TELEGRAra—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] LONDON, March 11. The price of gold £f -Is 102 d per oz. EARTHQUAKE TOLL. TOKYO, March 11. Exposure and starvation are hourly adding to the earthquake toll. Relief carriers are finding hundreds of dead along the roads. Official reports state there is an excess of four thousand dead and six thousand injured. A gale yesterday scattered the temporary hospitals and refugee huts, driving relief ships to shelter. BEAAI AVIRELESS. LONDON, -March 11. Despite the strictest official retinence in all quarters, the Australian Press Association understands there is much hopefulness that beam tests will work out to specifications. As soon us they end at nine o’clock to-morrow night the whole week’s figures will .be analysed and deductions made for errors to see it one hundred words a, minute for seven hours daily has been maintained. If thereupon the engineers give a certificate of efficiency, the Alarconi Coy will request the Post Office to take over the stations and later will ask the Australian Company’s assent, after which it will he perhaps a week before the service will he open to the public. It is understood Alarconi’s are most anxious to be able to announce success at Tuesday’s reorganisation.

CHILLED -MEAT. LONDON, March 11. It is understood negotiations are afoot for another shipment of chilled meat from Port Hardy in June. It is hoped thus to considerably shorten the time at sea in Australia. AN APPOINTMENT. LONDON. Alarch 11. Charles Frederick Belcher, Judge of the High Court, Mjasaland, has been appointed Chief Justice of Cyprus. DANIELS AfYSTERY. LONDON, March 11. It is hinted that new police inquiries at Boulogne may be responsible for developments in the mystery of the death of the English nurse Daniels, whose body was found at Boulogne. The police are endeavouring to trace a .ship’s officer who is alleged to Live been seen at Boulogne in company with Nurse Daniels. Thus far, it seems to be established that she was alive at noon on the day following the departure of the steamer that she intended to natch. In view of doubts as to the identity of the body, to which Nurse AlcCarthy contributed hy saying that she does not think that it is tlie body of Nurso Daniels, exhumation is likely. In the meantime, the Alagistrate in charge of the investigation has made no comment on Nurse McCarthy’s refusal to go to Boulogne beyond insisting that her presence is regarded as indispens’ible to a thorough investigation.'

NEW YORK LOANS. LONDON, Alarch 12. The Financial News states: “Ihere is discussion in City circles regarding two New South Wales’ loans that are maturing shortly. It suggests that the money required for their repayment will be raised in New York.” The “Alomiug Post’s” financial correspondent pointedly says: “In view of the fact that New South Wales has made its last borrowing in New York, and not here, a good deal of interest is being taken in the very large -“‘rounts of the New South Wales’ obligations, which will lie maturing later in the year.” SEVENTY LIVES LOST. TOKYO. Alarch 11.

Searching' torpedo boats are said to have abandoned all hone cf saving a training ship, the Kirishima, a ninehundred ton sailer from the Kagoshima Alarine School, with 72, including '4O students, aboard. The vessel wirelessed ail “5.0.5.” on the night of Alarch 9tli., saying that she was sinking. The liner. Empress of Canada,'coming to Yokohama, changed her course, and fruitlessly searched for the Kirisliitna.

It is Itelieved that she sank with all hands during a heavy storm.

CWM RELIEF FUND. LONDON, March 12. The Lord Mayor of London’s relief fund for the Cwra Colliery disaster victims has closed. The total is £24,000. Commending .the generosity of the response, the Lord Mayor says that there is sufficient to make adequate allowances for all the dependents. SALVATION ARMY PROPOSALS. LONDON. March 11. Mrs Bramwel! Booth offers the Salvation Army’s assistance to the League of Nations to suppress traffic in vice. She points out the Army promoted a Bill for raising tne age of consent for girls accepting theatrical engagements, which ■should greatly help the movement. She says that if the age of consent were fixed at 20 years, it would not be excessive, because at sixteeen girls were usually children in such matters. Mrs Booth adds that the Salvation Army’s representative in .Japan had vainly sought permission to address the international convention on the keepers of disorderly houses that was held ni Tokyo in 102 G.

GREEK STRIKE. LONDON, March 12. Messages from Athens, delayed by the censor, show that in the clash between the strikers and the police, two were killed and fifeen injured, as the result of a police volley, after fire hoses hud failed to disperse the mol).

Consternation was caused in Cabinet circles when demonstrators carried the victim’s body to the house of the Minister of tiie Interior.

Negotiations held soon afterwards resulted in the calling off of the strike, the Ministry agreeing to benevolently consider the shopkeepers’ grievances.

It also ordered the arrest of the officer responsible for the firing on the mob.

There are curious stories from Ath- ■ ens regarding the collapse of the strike, which is rumoured to have been a general revolt against the Government. It is stated that a group of Communists attempted to force a military cordon, whereupon the officer in charge 1 ordered the Fire Brigade to pour cold water on them. He then ordered the soldiers to fire blanks over the heads of the crowd. In the excitement, however, the soldiers killed two, and wounded about fifteen. An attempt followed to carry the lxxly of a dead Communist through the streets in order to incite the crowds hut it is stated that the populace remained calm. The incidents have created a painful impression, but they are not expected to have any serious influence against the Coalition Government CANADIAN PROTEST VANCOUVER. March 12. The Provincial Liberal Party Convention here to-day endorsed a resolution that the Federal and British Columbia Governments should discontinue assisted immigration to Canada, declaring that it is against the spending of public money, either Federal or Provincial, for til© purpose of assisting immigration.