BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[BY TELEGRArIl —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

SEAPLANE ORDERPARIS, April 2. The newspaper “Avenir" declares the Junker Company filled the duties order for a three engined seaplane with cabin and cargo hold, which are detachable and replaceable with lighting platform, equipped with machine jinn turrets and aerial torpedo tubes. <" 'the paper adds that other.and larger - airplanes will carry 77 millimeter gun* designed to hold up a merchant ship. NEW SERVICE. LONDON, April 3. A combined night train and flvin'. boat daily service is being inaugurated between London and tlai’y. ARTIFICIAL FOGS. LONDON, April 3. The "Daily News” aeronautical correspondent says that secret researches into the dissemination of artificial fogs over cities threatened by raiding aircraft is rapidly progressing, enabling specially equipped neropi’.ines to spread immense cloud screens over wide areas of the skv, thereby completely hiding any threatened locality.

DROUGHT DISASTER. PARIS, April l. There is intense misery in Frencii Morocco. There has been no rain for a month. The people of the Sus district are starving, and the crops arc

withering. The hunger-stricken country population are crowding into has become a vast problem hot keep the tribesmen alive til;* year’s crops are harvested. J FRANK HODGE’S VIEW. DONDOX, April 4. y. Air Frank Hodges (former Secretary i of the Miners’ Federation), from the pulpit of the Coventry Cathedral’. addressed two thousand men, including many coal miners. He said that lie rejected the idea that industrial strife was inevitable. Thus far. lie said, the only basis of the workers’ organisation bad been the belief that they must be prepared for war in their industrial relationships. The new men, however, had become more analytical, and some of them had come to the conclusion that war was barbaric, and that strife was futile. The desire for industrial peace must be translated into industrial practice. The world, he said, was crying nut for effective oragnisation, and the plan for this must be based on the ethical precepts of Christ himself. Strife, he said, should be the Vast thought to come.

FERDINAND’S CONDITION. LONDON. April 3. Though the strictest censorship is enforced, there is no doubt that Ferdinand is seriously ill with bronchial’ pneumonia, following influenza, besides cancer. Tt is reported from Vienna that a conference was held at Bucharest to • decide what anti-revolutionary measures are to he taken if the King dies. His daughter, Queen Mary, of Jugoslavia, arrived at Bucharest during the night. A Brussels message says that Doctor Sluys. a radium specialist, was summoned to Bucharest. SUGAR ESTIMATES. LONDON, April 4. Tlerr Licht in his Madgehurg circular estimates five months beet sugar production at 3.868,758 tons, and the whole aempaign at 6,898,000. PRINCESS BETTY. (Received this dav at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON. April 4. When Their Majesties left Buckingham Pai’ace in a motor for Windsor they had Princess Betty in the car. The crowd was obviously anxious to obtain a glimpse and a nurse held her up. The Princess was equally as pleased as the crowd. EXCHANGE RATES. LONDON, April 4. Exchanges: Brussels 34.94; Paris 124.00, Stockholm 18.12. Oslo 18.69, Copenhagen 18.20. Berlin 20.49. Rome 101.70. Calcutta 17.15-10. Yokohama 24J. Hong Kong 245. Montreal 485 9-16. New York 48.1 TTf-lfi ; Amsterdam 12 11-18, Batavia 1215. LONDON. April 3. Bradford tops market is quiet, top makers making small concessions for actual business. m