BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Lnv TELEGRAPH- -PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, May 27. In view of the Economic Conference resolutions, Empire producers carried a resolution requesting tlie Government not to assent to limiting theright of the dominions to mutually negotiate trade agreements with full preferential terms.

LISTENING-IN FATALITY. LONDON, -May 27. A verdict was given in the case of llainford (cabled on 2otli) that death was due to misadventure. A daughter gave evidence that she noticed a flashing and terrific hammering in her own earphones, and rushed to her mother’s room which was in darkness. Her mother’s earphones were similarly noisy. The flashing electric lamp was found to be defective.

QUEEN OF BELGIANS. PARIS, May 27. The Queen of the Belgians is here incognito. She visited and condoled with Nungesser’s mother. PRESIDENT ELECTED. PRAGUE, May 27. Nasarvk was re-elected President.

LOCARNO PACT. ROAIE. Atay 27. Signor ATussolini. speaking in Italian Chamber of Deputies, referred sceptically to Locarno, which he described as being a “more or less platonic manifestation in a world that continues to race in armaments.’’ He alluded to Germany as being “a democracy full of the decadence of France, and morally ill with a declining birthrate.”

CHANGE IN DANCING. Paris, Ainy 28. The days of the exaggerated dances, mostly of negro origin, are numbered. Grace is now replacing jerky syncopation. There is a Dancing Congress at present sitting. It his decided not to recommend such invasions as the “Heebie-Jeebies,” and the equally uncivilised “Black Bottom Dance.” Tho experts declare that there is a definite movement towards the waltz and the other dances popular twenty years ago. The public is now thoroughly tired. It no sooner masters a dance than it goes out of fashion.

ITALIAN SENTENCE. ROME. May 29. Signor de Gaspari, an ex-deputy and ex-leader of the Populist Party, was arrested when attempting to leave the country with a false passport and other documents. He was sentenced to four years for possession of forged papers.