BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

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A STRANGE BURIAL, LOXDOX. .March 21

With the same secrecy which characterised lii.s leadership of the strange sect, .Smytli-Pigott (cabled on .March 21st) was buried in the grounds of the Abode of Love. The poliie allowed none other than genuine mourners to enter. Kadi seemed to possess a secret passport through the imposing portals of the Abode of l.ove. Numbers of fashionable, elderly women, in expensive furs, arrived singly and in

groups, some afoot and some in i'imousines. A coffin of unvarnished oak was carried by eight stalwarts belonging to the sect across the extensive grounds. The grave was dug beneath spreading beeches near by the original Messiah. Pigott’s children, lawful wife and spiritual wife were together. Altogether twenty men and a large number of women were present. When the coffin was lowered into the grave the crowd dispersed.

B YF.-EL KCTIOX. LONDON. March 21. The Leith bye-election resulted : Brown (liberal) 12. KM Wilson (Labour) 12.350 Heaton (Conservative) . . 4,007

GR UISEK DUX Ml MX. LOXDOX. March 25. The cruiser Dunedin from Xcw Zealand has ai-rived at '■fiicerness.

.MEDICAL A PPOIXT.MFXTS. LOXDOX, March. 25

.Three assistant medicals appointed to the Mental Hospital Department, Wellington, are: Childs, of the Minisi r.\ of Pensions’ Hospital. Iludderlicld. 11. Hayes. Mental Hospital. Ilaiiwell. and ,1. Walters, neurological’ specialists l;> the .Ministry of Pensions. The last two have had exponente in ultra violet ray treatment in Maudsley I lospital. CHAIX OF WAR GRAVES. LOXDOX, .March 21. How the graves of 1.175,038 Empire dead form a chain around the world is graphically described in the seventh report of the Imperial War Graves Commission. There were nearly three thousand war ecmctrics between the English Channel and the Vosges Mountains. In addition there are 1500 French and Belgian cemeteries, where Britons and Dominion soldiers are buried.

In Switzerland the liritish prisoners of war who died have been gathered together in Vevy Cemetery. There are ninety cemeteries in Italy and thence the chain stretches to Macedonia, the Balkans, Green Islands (where there are twenty-live cemeteries) and to Gali'ipoli. Here there are 111, six in Holies and twenty-live in a chain from Suvln Hay to Anzae Beach. Forty-six graves iu Palestine include ope on the Mount of Olives. Branching south and last there are thirty-live in Egypt, where there are hundreds of Australians, forty in East Africa and twenty-nine in Irak. Thence the chain extends to India, China, Australia, and Xew Zealand, back to the United Kingdom, where there are seventy-seven thousand graves in 7,500 church yards and cemeteries. .Moreover, there are many other countries oIF the track followed, where Britons and Dominion men are buried, sad to remember. The commonest headstone is to the unknown soi'dier, bearing the words : “Known unto God.”

HER I.iIX RIOT'S. BERLIN', March 211. Following a Fascist v. Comhumisl: street riot, in which one Communist was killed and twenty were injured, many police were taken to the hospital. owing to attacks with knives, clubs and bottles.

Herr Creziu'iky, Minister of the interior, announces the strengthening ol the special night police patrols and an increase in the police armament*.

The Minister is prohibiting the Steeiliehns mass meeting for April gt.h. in which one hundred thousand Nationalists were expected to participate. The Diet lias prohibited processionists from carrying sticks, and it advises the peaceful population to remain indoors. It hopes the presence of moderate numbers of police will be sufficient to prevent disturbances if the public are aware that there are heavy reserves tactfully concealed in the background. IN ThFcOMMONS. LONDON. March 21. When the Home Secretary was answering a question there were sudden cries of " “Leith! Leith! Four thousand majority. Resign! Resign!” This appeared at first to be an intimation to the Commons that the result was a Labour victory. When the correct result was known there were hearty Liberal cheers and much bantering of the Labourites. Mr BaVdwin answering Beckett said the Government continued to maintain contact with Nationalists in Hanlcoiv. As regards the future he would be guided by circumstances. He could not forecast what modification, if any, of their attitude might be rendered necessarv by the present or futuio developments. M.r Baldwin announced the House would adjourn on 14th April and reassemble on the 26th. ACTION SETTLED. LONDON, March 24. Cnivd’s action (cabled on March 22) has been amicably settled.