BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[I)Y TELEGRAPH- -PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) COMMERCIAL. LONDON, May 18. Gold is 84s ljd. LONDON, -May 18. At the tallow sales 1402 casks were offered, and 530 sold. Prices are unchanged. BALKAN FRONTIER SCRAP. BELGRADE, May 18. The Serbian gendarmes and peasants attacked twelve Bulgarian Komitajis at Kumanovo. They fought all day long. Three Komitajis and one gendarme Were killed. Several were wounded, tlie remainder of the Komitajis escaped. BOTTLE MESSAGES. LONDON, May IT). Two bottle messages have been washed up at Boulogne and Ealmoutli, purporting to come from Captain Nungesser, the Atlantic flier, indicating that his aeroplane had fallen into the sea. The Air Ministry discredits the messages. A HOAX. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, May 19. The NTiugesser bottles proved a boa x. FIRST CLAUSE PASSED. LONDON, May 19. In the House of Commons, under the guillotine. Clause One of the Trades Union Bill, as amended, was passed by 295 votes to 153. The debate was then adjourned. JAPAN’S DEMANDS. LONDON, May 19. The “ Morning Post’s ” Geneva correspondent says :—The Japanese, at the Coolidgc Disarmament Conference, will demand the maintenance of the status quo at Singapore and at Hawaii, and also will demand tlie perpetual demilitarisation of the Philippine Islands, through the extension of the Washington Treaty. Japan also will ask for the neutralisation of the Panama Canal and the opening of the seas, ns well as the gateways, of commerce to all nations.

M. Shideehi. Japan’s chief delegate at the Economic Conference, has already stressed the demand for the equality of all countries in coastwise shipping traffic. This means that the Japanese shipping as between tlie Western and Eastern United States by way of the Panama Canal would be on an equality with America commerce.