BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

[|}Y TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] KMPTHJO WINE PROTECTION. LONDON, April 11. A change in the dividing line id wines, delighted these who tor years have been urging the protection ol Empire wines from i heap Continental vintages. 'lbis de.scriminaton in degree of strength and i in-rouse in duty has long been advoeated by the Imperial Economic Committee ol the Empire .Marketing Board who lelt the reforms would he a great help to trade. There is also much sat is* - lotion in Empire circles that a shilling excess he put on wine made in London Irom the cheap imported nntermented grape juice, which is seriously undercutting the genuine and better wines coming from Australia and South Atriea. DANIELS POST MORTEM. PARIS. April 12. Doctor Paul's autopsy at Boulogne reveals that Nurse Daniels was strangled. He says:—‘‘This is the most dillieult of my thirty thousand post morteius and the result is inconclusive. The thyroid hone was fractured, and the base of the larynx showed traces of blows. The right shoulder and hack were lined in spots and the lungs and heart conditions were consistent with strangulation." DRENCH COl'R'l' COMEDY. PARIS. April 12. \ ivditienl libel action connected with the Home Rule movement in Alsace ended in a series of sensations, possible only in a French court or Hilbert and Sullivan opera. A certain Abbe. Haigy, sued the editor of a Colmar journal lor alleging the Abbe had been a Herman propagandist. During his examination the Abbe dramatically declared that in serving Alsace he onlywished to -serve France. The defending counsel immediately challenged the Abbe to erv: “Vive la France.” The 1 Ah he promptly accepted, whereupon someone in the court started I lie Marseillaise,” with the electrifying result that the whole court joined in. The opposing counsel rushed to shake hands and the Abbe and the editor kissed each other. The jury without leaving the box returned a verdict of no libel.