BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1927, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

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GERMAN WAP.TIME FILM

MERLIN, March 17

ft! hat is claimed to he the greatest wartime film, giving a complete monumental record is about to be released. Ihe producing company was granted official assistance and also access tithe government’s vast, archives, firstly to revise Europe pre-war, with nations bristling with bayonets. The prologue makes it dear how militarism made an outbreak inevitable. The form of mobilisation is revealed from the actual scene of the crucial days of 1914. The battle pictures range from the opening skirmishes in Flanders to tie Rattle of Marne, and induiie I i Oldenburg's inarch to attack Russia. A thrilling series of pictures of naval and aerial battles taken at the time. Radical journals attack tbo film, declaring the employment of trick photography Inis made possible a gigantic trick film which ought to be entitled: " The Vanquished Were Victorious.”

SOVIET TROUNCED. LONDON, March 17. “ftVe know that the Soviet set itself out to give orders to Englishmen:— and. believe me. they were not un-paid-orders to rebel against England and commit treason against the Empire.” declared Lord Birkenhead when trouncing Communist interrupters at a Dulwich meeting. “No language of contempt.,” he said, “could do the Soviet justice, and it is not worth while to Use it. They are not only murderers and assassins hut men who authorised the death of innocent young princesses, and who have .instilled that ever since, men who have stolen British property throughout Russia, and who nearly lost the war to which they were pledged with the Allies. Think you the proletariat rules in Russia? The only true proletariat is the peasantry who are strongly eposed to the Soviet.” A GIRL KILLED. ROME, March 17. An unknown assassin, who has assaulted and strangled girls agcil from three to six years, every six months for the past three years, repeated the outrage on March 13th. and then disappeared again. One hundred police are searching. Many suspects have been arrested. Hundreds of houses have been visited. Bloodhounds are being used. A CARTOON RESEN’WSD. CONSTANTINOPLE. .March 18. A cartoon appeared in the newspaper “Akcliam” depicting a woman dressed in Turkish fashion ascending in a balloon and casting out ballast bags inscribed ‘'Conscience,” “Honour.”

and “Virtue,” with a fourth bag ready to be released inscribed "Morals.” The deduction was that Turkish women were only progressing at the sacrifice of these virtues. The result of the indignation aroused Mas that the editor, tbo caricaturist, and three other members of the staff were sente need to imprisonment variously for live to one month, plus fines.

BUTTER SALES IN LONDON. LONDON. March Hi,

Fair sales of New Zealand butter from about 14Gs to 148 s have taken place, but big buyers are not operating. It is believed that they are willing to purchase at I l ls. Cheese is selling fairly well at 70s. SHIPPING RING CASE. LONDON. March 17. Sir James C'nird gave evidence in the Law Court in the actions against tile New Zealand Shipping and Federal Steam Navigation Companies, in connection with the pool, under which the ships controlled by the plaintiff and the defendants were engaged. Sir J. C'nird said that Mr Hughes (the Federal Line's chairman) told him in J9ll that Honlders wanted to get out of tlie Australian trade, and asked him to join in the purchase of their interests. Witness replied that he was agreeable and would take one-third. Counsel asked: 'Was it ever suggested to you until Mr Hughes’s lettor in reply to yours, that Mr Hughes bad not purchased IJoulder’s Australian interests on joint account with von. Witness replied : No. Cross-examined lie was asked: Do you realise you arc making a grave charge against an old friend. Witness answered: I cannot help it. During the continued cross-examina-tion of Sir John C'nird, he said ho was under the impression that the whole of the Australian rights of Honlders were purchased in the name of the Federal Steamship Co., and transferred to the N.Z. Shipping Coy. Witness contended that he had a third share. He said lie never transferred anything to anybody. There was no question of a re-sale. The Judge observed that, so far as he could see. it was a contest of truthfulness or of recollection between the witness and Air Hughes.

Counsel for the defence argued that Hie 1 allegations were not supported by the smallest evidence. The hearing was adjourned. FEAT BY GERMAN AIRMAN. BERLIN March IS. A daring experiment was carried out by Herr Espenlaub, one of the pioneers of gliding, when seated in a motorless glider. It was attached to an aeroplane which flew at a height of a thousand feet. Espenlaub then released himself and glided to earth. Ho landed at the aerodrome from which lie started. ANTI-HIGH CHURCH ATTITUDE. LONDON. March 18. Sir Win. Jovmson Ricks (Home Minister), who is the leader of the Evangelical Party apart from Ids Home Secretaryship, addressed a meeting on the Anglican Prayer Book revision at Tunbridge Wells. He said there was much in the new hook to which all Evangelicals would heartily assent. Other sections were gravely contrary to the traditions of the Reformed Church. He said:—"l am much impressed liv the Archbishop's plea tor unity, hut 1 am not satisfied with l'ic reply received, and 1 must confess the future is dark. 1 can see no real intention on the part of the Bishops, particularly those of Ritualistic views, to curb extremists. Hence any concession on the part of the Evangelicals would merely be utilised as a jumpingolf ground."

GERMAN AIR SERVICE. LONDON. March Pi. The German Air Combine, following u]> the success of its last year's experimental air services, inis inaugurated a regular trans-continental sleepers with British Napier engines. The service is beginning on May Day. A triple-engined German air liner will leave Croydon at four o'clock each morning, and will tly to Amsterdam, Hanover, and Berlin with connections to Scandinavia and Russia. 3rADRID• BA Ml IT SUIGID ES. MADRID. March 18. When the shops were closing, a man armed with a revolver, entered a jeweller's establishment and grabbed a trayful of jewels. The proprietor put 'up a light. Thereupon the bandit shot him dead and seriously wounded his assistant. He then fled, hut was pursued by a large crowd. He then suicided in the street on the point of capture. NURSE DANIELS MYSTERY. LONDON. March.l7. The May Daniels investigation is virtually at a standstill, owing to Miss McCarthy’s'refusal to go to Boulogne.