BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

ply TELEGRAM!- -rER TRESS ASSOCIATION.] H INK LEU, AIRMANLONDON, April 25. As the result of experience at Bournemouth where he won thrice wStli the machine for the Australian flight, Hinkler is altering the machine ensuring still greater speed. While this is being carried out ho will perforin for the Air Aliuistrv, a special secret mission connected with British fixing prestige. He hopes to start lor A us- _ tralia not later than the middle ot Alay. N.S-AVj. POLITICS. LONDON, April 25. A reply to their press cables from Australia state AlcTvell’s and lladdeley’s proxies entitle Lang to record their votes in favour of conference reference to the expulsion of Goodin, and Gillies. Baddcley denies this. He says the proxies were only given for svecific purposes which did not include Goodin and Gillies reinstatement. - concerning which he and AlcKell maintain the original stand. FEDERAL LOAN. LONDON, April 25. It is believed the underwriters are saddled with fifty per cent of the Commonwealth loan. BEAM TELEPHONY. LONDON, April 25. There is a recrudescence of prophecies that it may fie only a few weeks before there is wireless telephony to Australia per medium of the beam hut it is definitely stated that experts are too busy fixing up the South African beam to bother about Australian telephony, which will be taken up in the latter half of the ye;ii. JAPAN’S CRISIS. TOKIO, April 25. The banks note closed prior to the moratorium are working under its limitations, which permit ordinaiy j business and one hundred yen withdrawals. TlWe is no excitement though a few savings institutions aie crowded with small depositors. All large hanks have combined to agree to support each other ; also smaller, while the bank of Japan guarantees loans to meet all solvent hank demands. The total deposits of hanks which dosed last week amount to eight bundled million. The Finance Department is preparing a government Bill for presentation to a special Diet authorising five hundred million support from the bank of Japan. SPAIILINGER TREATMENT. LONDON. April 25. The secrecy maintained regarding the fundamental details of the technique rendered it almost impossible to judge the value of Spahlinger’s work, says the report of the Chester Medical Committee, which visited Geneva to investigate his treatment. The Committee were disappointed at the results of the case examined. The remedies dd not offer a certain cure for tuberculosis, and there was no conclusive evidence that Spahlnger had materially altered the course of the disease. BANK-NOTE forgers. LONDON, April 25. The “ Daily Alail’s ” Florence correspondent says, acting on information from otners. the police raided premises occupied hv an associate of an international gang of forgers and arrested ten engaged in the production of English hank notes, sequestered the machinery and hank notes to a nominal value of half a million sterling. A branch at Athens was also raided and forty arrested. Large quantities of Egyptian and English bank-notes were seized. The former were packed In small barrels labelled lard, and were about to he dispatched to accomplices at Hamburg. It was calculated that altogether tlie gang circulated counterfeit English banknotes to the nominal value of three millions sterling.

A. FOOLISH ACTRESS. LONDON, April 25. ' Sybil Thorndike called theatre audiences “Lumps of Suet” and added she wak not the servant of tlie public and in that manner stirred up a hornets nest. She finds herself deserted by a majority of the stage, even by Basil Gill her leading man, who said “I regard myself as a servant of the public.” Others declare if Thorndike does not do what the majority of the public want, she will probably starve. In almost one accord they declare that British audiences are excellent, whether they over eat’ themselves before going to the theatre or not. The secretary of theatrical managers association had the last word. He said: “All artists including Thorndike are public servants, and it is up to Thorndike to educate the public, if she feels that way but I am afraid her remark will cost her dear.”

LONDON, April 25. Women have been given the right to pilot passenger aeroplanes bv the international commission for air navigation sitting in London. The decision is regarded with great interest, but experts are of opinion that it will be a long time before air companies engage them. CRICKET B ROA DC AST. LONDON, April 25. The Broadcasting Corporation is using the New Zealand team’s match against Essex as the first experiment in broadcasting a cricket description which will follow tlie Australian example of allowing the narrator lo intervene when he wishes to discuss anv interesting phase. DISAItAr AMENT. • GENEVA, April 26. Although ill-health prevented Lord Cecil attending the Disarmament Conference to-day, he told newspaper men that the Preparatory Committee had established a broad outline of a scheme but tlie completing of figures regarding armaments would be a difficult task. The application of what was called arithmetically the (greatest common measure had adjusted many differences. If this spirit were still maintained, differences still existing would yield to treatment. The conclusion of a week’s strenuous work was that disarmament was a perfectly practical policy. HUGE SWEEP ON ENGLISH DERBY'. LONDON, April 26. The receipts from the Stock Exchange Mutual Subscription and otherwise for the Derby Sweep have reached the record figure of a quarter of a million sterling. Thousands of applications for tickets were refused. Seventy five thousand pounds will lie allocated to the winner, while ninety thousand pounds will lie paid in subsidiary prizes and sixty thousand among the drawers of all of the three hundred nominated horses. Twentyfive thousand pounds goes to charities. The interest on the fund for six weeks pays all the expenses.