BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

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SOVIET -MILLIONS REDEPOSITED. LONDON, March ]4. The “Daily Telegraph’s" correspondent states officials of the Soviet who on the eve of Chamberlain’s recent l note withdrew two and ’a half millions sterling from London banks, have redeposited a large proportion of it. Apparently .Moscow no longer fears a diplomatic rupture.

THE POCHETTE AFFAIR. PARIS, March 14

Police rounded up in Lyons, Tours and other provincial towns the ‘agents of Rochette. Most of the victims are farmers and small shopkeepers. “I did not expect this early morning visit,” remarked Rochette with a twinkle in the eye. when the police arrived at the office. “It is jmd though 1 work on Sunday I did not think the police did.” Ho stood calmly smoking a cigarette while the j formalities were completed. “It is ' such a pity my eldest daughter is ab<\v~v to he married. 1 am afraid this busvyT ness will not do her any good.”

BEAM WIRELESS. LONDON, March 14

No details of the actual result of the beam tost are issued, hut it isunderstood that sufficiently long spells of reception most days with speed as high as three hundred words a minute, demonstrated that even with deduc- « tions for errors it would easily be possible to carry out and often exceed the provision. for seven hours a dayV transmission at a speed of one hundred words per minute. Details may be disclosed at Marconi’s meeting tomorrow. Nothing official emanated from the Post Office. It was left for Marconi’s to make the announcement of success late in the afternoon, too late for any effect upon the Stock Exchange quotations to be noted. It is expected the Post Office will announce, not later than 'Wednesday, that the service will be inaugurated within a week.

JUMP TO DEATH. LONDON, March 14. Detective-Inspector Addison who brought Dixon from New Zealand jumped eighty feet from the rooi ol Seltridges, London, when the street was < crowded. He missed a eljJffeur by inches and was killed instantly. COMING AFRICAN FLY. LONDON. March 14. The second official air force Cape to Cairo flight, with four Fairevs under the leadership of Air Commodore Samson, w ill begin on 30th March at Ivisuniu. They will he joined by a flight of South African De Havilands and the expedition is due at Capetown on 20th April. After that they go to Grahams town to co-operate with Union forces. Faireys return alone and are due at Cairo oil 22nd May. MYSTERY MAN CONTROVERSY. ROME, March 14. A controversy over the mystery nianU. gains strength hourly. Everybody is excited over the long • reports of the progress of the affair and Italy is divided into two camps, Canellaites and Brunicrites. The police are adhering to finger prints, claim it is calculated . impossible to find two identical designs only in a series of sixty-four milliard persons. • Canella’s sister says : “Don t speak to us of finger prints, mimics, or auto-suggestion. Our certainty that he is our missing brother is precise, sure, unqualified and mathematical.” A doctor of the asylum says the-man, whoever lie is, is not a malingerer 0r,.., simulator.

FRENCH NAVY. LONDON. March It

It is understood the idea of French participation in the welcome to the Renown (cabled oil February 14th) is abandoned, because French naval authorities desired their fleet’s cruise to fie the distinrtive. predominant feature, ft therefore is arriving at the end dr Mav. l

GERMAN SHIPPING. BERLIN. March 14

Germany's phenomenal mercantile marine recovery has been emphasised by Herr Cuno’s declaration at la Congrees of German Shipowners to the effect that the six hundred thousand >rl tons of shipping left to Germany by the Versailles Treaty has already l>een raised to three million two hundred thousand tons, or to two million below Germany’s pre-wOr standard. Herr Cuuo pointed out that a great moral effect liras been produced by the reappearance of the German ships throughout the world, as being an evidence of Germany’s unbroken vitality. A significant point is thGt forty per cent of Germany’s commercial fleet is less than five years old, whereas the world’s average of that age is sixteen per cent. Furthermore, the German ships are superior in loading, unloading and sJifet.v devices, and in speed, especially the freighters. Herr Cuuo also emphasised that the whole of Germany’s pre-war long-dis-tance routes have now been recaptured and while the English shipyards are at a comiliratively low ebb, the German shipyards are working overtime.

DANIELS MYSTERY. LONDON, March 14. Chief Inspector Gillin, of Scotland Yard, lias taken charge of the English inquiries into the Daniels mystery. Meantime, the Boulogne Magistrate lias appealed to Scotland A ard to send detectives to France, where, he says, “everything in our power will he done to assist them.”

He adds that a squad of detectives is ready at Lille Police Headquarters to leave at '.any moment. Doctor Sevestre, a medical expert, says that the body of Nurse Daniels is now so decomposed that lie is unable lo arrive at any conclusion.

It is equally possible that Nurse Daniels was shot, stabbed, or strangled.

KING OF SPAIN frx. LONDON, March 15. An imcensorcd message received by the “ .Morning Post,” via Gibraltar, states King Alfonso’s illness has been more serious than indicated. Official bulletins state he contracted pleuropneumonia as an after-effect of infill enza, and his light lung was in a had state. His condition throughout one night was critical, all the court physicians being in attendance. King Alfonso has sent a message to the nation, viz. :—“ 1 have passed through three days of severe illness, but. .thanks be to God. the troubles are

overcome. Mv spirits never sunk for a moment. I never ceased thinking of illy people.” FRANCE AND. IffiSAII.MAMKX'I. PARIS, March 15. In response to the new Note . iroMy Washington, it is generally the French Government will be represented as an observer at tin?.- Naval Disarmament Conference. COCKTAIL CONTEST. VIENNA, March 14. A cocktail making contest here was attended by representatives from all parts of Europe, including London. There were 115 varieties judged. A German won with a cocktail called the “ Valencia.” composed of two dashes of orange hitters, half a glass of orange juice, and a liquor glass of apricot brandy.

FATHER OF LATVIA DIES. RIGA. March 15

The death is recorded of M. Tschakste, a “true father of the people.” He strove long to free his country from the Tsarist yoke, and he succeeded at the time of the Bolshevik revolution in forming Latvia into a separate state. >. Since then he has raised it into the most flourishing of all tile Baltic States. Although for long the president, he lived the life of a simple farmer, growing the products which figured on the menus of his state banquets.