BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[BY TELEGRArH- -PER TRESS ASSOCIATION.] REVISED PRAYER BOOK. LONDON, April 26. Cries of “Stop this popish prayer book,' greeted the Archbishop of Canterbury on rising to address the Religious Tracts Society at Queen’s Hall. A man rose in the gallery and cried “My Lord before you speak may I submit a" resolution urging tho Governument to reject the Popish prayer book.” ’There were shouts of approval from several quarters. Eventually the police removed several men and women. some of them violently struggling, before the Archbishop was able to continue.

GERMAN SUBTERFUGE. LONDON. April 26. ’ ' The “Daily Telegraph’s” diplomatic correspondent says despite emphatic Berlin denials regarding the statement that German hanks granted a credit to Soviet (cabled on 22nd April) fresh admissions in the course of hurried explanations reveal large overdrafts have already been allowed beyond the fifteen millions agreed to in 1926. It is feared the description of “overdrafts on old credits” is a poor effort to conceal the new. PR 1 NCR'S HOLIDAY. MADRID, April 26. \ Their Majesties of Spain having left the Prince of Wales free to choose a programme for his Spanish holiday. one whirl of gaiety includes much golf and polo, betwixt kaleidoscopic glimpses of Spanish life, 10-day he golfed, then motored to the Spanish rodeo. He returned to Alcazar after lunch and attended a game of polo. He was offered a seat in a line of armchairs occupied by Spanish aristocracy and finding nowhere to place his hat and cane, he unhesitatingly dug his cane in the ground and hung his hat on top. constituting a new fashion which is now accepted in Spain ;.s correct etiquette for open air functions.

At midnight he went to a reception on a liner moored in the riyer with guitar bands fore and aft, and loudly clapped the Senoritas exhibition dances. He himself created a sensation by dancing u Charleston. He left, for home at two in the morning.

AUSTRIAN ELECTIONS. VIENNA, April 26

As the result of the general election the return to power of Monsignor Seipcl’s Ministry seems assured. The Social Democrats conducted a vigorous and costly campaign, and they retained city scats, but they were unable to shake the bourgeois parties in the country.

Commercial circles are greatly relieved as there is now no fear of a Socialist Government.

AIR TRIPS

LONDON, April 26

Tho London to Paris airway is becoming a greater luxury service. Tho latest editions are buffets from which light luncheons and other refreshments are served by specially trained stewards. In addition, pleasure trips over London and up the Thames Valley are being inaugurated, when aiterlion tea will also be served inclusive in the charge of two guineas.

PORTRAIT REJECTED. LONDON, April 26.

John Collier referring to the Royal Academy’s rejection of his portrait of Bernard Shaw,"said “Words fail me, it is only the second rejection in fifty years. 1 have no quarrel with the Academy, but I think I am harshly treated. I consider the portrait better than that of Aldon Huxley, the only other one 1 submitted this year, which was accepted. In fact. Shaw’s portrait is my best. I gave Shaw a quizzical, humorous expression. He gave seven sittings. 1 intend to exhibit it elsewhere.” ,

Shaw, interviewed, said: “I am surprised, like everyone else. Nothings is wrong with the portrait or Collier, or me. It is for the Academy to explain the discrimination, which must he against the sitter. If it thinks the public is utterly tired of portraits of me .then I agree I will he delighted to yield my place'to a humble, young, less shop-soiled literary colleague.”

UNDER FALSE COLOURS. PARIS, April 26.

At Nicax a six months’ sentence was imposed on Alohnmed Raschid, the so-called Emir of Kurdistan, on a charge of illegally wearing French decorations and carrying a false passport. It was revealed that his real name was Jay Bronson, who was deported from Switzerland and England alter six months’ imprisonment for fraud. Ho was also imprisoned in France and Germany. His arrest at Nice was the result of making himself conspicuous on a promenade, on five charges before an admiring crowd, wearing a gorgeous uniform' and numerous decorations, inc luding the Legion of Honour and Allied war badges. He possessed a remarkable diplomatic passport, purporting to give him certain powers on behalf of Kurdistan. Bronson was formerly a tailor at Chicago and subsequently posed as son and heir of Abdullah. He was accompanied by a lady with a diamond in her nose and was received by President Harding. LOST.IN SAHARA. LONDON, April '2O. Lost lor ten days in Sahara, with only a mug of water each for himself and three native servants, one of whom died of thirst, is among the experiences of Lieut. Donald Cameron, of the Nigerian Regiment, of Algiers, which place he reached after a six months’ march across the Sahara from Kano, a distance of two thousand miles. He is the first Britisher to traverse that part of the journey. Cameron’s 27th birthday occurred during the journey in a waterless region in which the guide lost his way. Both rations and water were very scarce and five out of eleven camels died, only two days' water remaining when they reached an

LONDON OPERA. LONDON, April 2G. Aliss Katharine Arkands, who first won fame in “The Beggars’ Opera,” is the only British star appearing at the forthcoming opera season at Covent Garden, though British singers are tilling a number of minor rolls. Aliss Arkands, interviewed by the Daily Express. said; “I am not only the sole British singer filling a leading role, hut I looked at the contract, and 5found that it was in the German language. Imagine that! A German contract offered to a British singer to appear in a British opera house!” The Daily Express editorially says: “The subscription list for Covent Garden is practically full. So much for British support for opera. AYhat about grand opera's support for British singers and conductors?” Among others mentioned, the paper says: “Aliss Florence Austral should he given a chance in senior opera, as she has one of the greatest voices of the world.” GENEVA. April 2G. A special liner conveying fifty Japanese delegates to the Coolidge Conference arrives nt Genoa on June 6th.