BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

[by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] A SUPER-ZEPPELIN. BERNE, April 20. Zeppelin Z.L., 127, which is being built at Friedrichshafen, probably for the Seviile-Uuenos Aires route, will have a ballroom, a large dining saloon and forty bedrooms. WHEAT PRICES. LONDON. April 20. Cargoes are fully steady but buyers are unresponsive. Parcels are firmly held occasionally for an advance of 3d but the demand is quiet. Liverpool futures are: .May 10s sd, July 10s 3d, October 9s ll|d." SHI PR UILDERS CLAIM. LONDON, April 20. The shipbuilders will hold a conference next week to consider the unions claims for increased wages based on a revival of prosperity including a two hundred thousand sterling contract foisted work for New Zealand, another for remodelling New Zealand railway workshops aifd also the construction of a huge floating dock for Singapore, upon which nightwork has begun. RUSSIAN REPO IT. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) MOSCOW, April 20. The Political Department announces it has “discovered and -broken up a Monarchist group, calling themselves followers of ex-Grand Duke Nicholas. They were mainly engaged in military espionage on behalf of foreign intelligence service, which are also supporting attempts to create an anti-Soviet i, organisation in Russia. The MonarchPT' ists are directed by Youtepov, formerly a General in the White Army. Ho now resides in Paris and has received . funds from foreign sources, hut the ■ attempts completely failed. He has not established relations with any classes of the population. It is expected that further investigations will produce fresh foreign financial machinations.