MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1927, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

{■Australia & N.Z. Cubic Association.] F.IRE ON ■•RENOWN." IN BOILER BOOM. LONDON, .May 28. The Admiralty announces an oil tuol lire occurred in one of the “Renown’s ’ boiler rooms on the 20th of .May, between Fremantle and .Mauritius. The ship was stopped while the lire was extinguished. There were lour slight casualties among the engine-mom tarings. The programme "ill not. be affected.

CAUSE UNKNOWN, tßeceived this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON. Afay' 28. The Admiralty states the cause of the Renown's lire at present is unknown. ITALY’S FUTURE. ROAIE, Afay 20. In the course of a speech. Signor Mussolini said that the country must ho purged of all distributing elements. He denied reports from abroad to the effect that they were two hundred thousand anti-Fascists confined on islands. There were only 000 Italy he said, must have, a population of sixty millions by the second half of tho present century. The day would perhaps, come when there would be a tax on the bachelors followed by another on tho childless marriages.

Signor Mussolini criticised the weakness of democratic rule, instancing the cases of Germany and France. He foreshadowed Italy as a co-operative State, with its Parliament based on a free electoral suffrage, and without an Opposition. The country lie said, were all for the State, and nolle against it, but all one people. At the conclusion of bis speech. Signor Afussolini received an ovation, the people singing the Fascist liyman. ROAIE, Afav 26.

“One duty Italy will have will be to place five niillon men in full war efficiency, easily mobilised, to meet the cventulities of such movements as the Steel Helmets,’ said Signor Afussolini in the Chamber of Deputies, referring the German oatriotic organisation. He prophesised that Europe’s most critical moments will be between 1935 and 1940. Italy must then, lie said be effi cient and her air force must ho developed to its maximum. Italy, in ten years, would he transformed as not to he recognised by foreigners, or even hv the Italians themselves.

MUSSOLINI'S ANNOUNCEMENT ROAIE, Alav 27.

Signor Mussolini, speaking in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, announced that the present Chamber, along with its method of election, considers themselves as abolished when the 'Syndicates of the Employers and of the 'Workers had thoroughly organised the National Corporations, and had given them a definite form. They then would cheese their own best men to represent them in the new Chamber.

EGYPTIAN POLITICS. CAIRO, Afay 28. A political storm, which has been brewing for some time, seems likely to be precipitated by a note handed to Lord Lloyd (British High Commissioner) by Sarwat Pasha, disputing the authority of the High Commissioner to interfere in any matters. Sarwat claims that an army re-organisa-tion was not mentioned in the nego-

tintions resulting in the declaration of Kgypi’s independence in 1922. The tone of the newspapers and Parliament does not encourage the hope of tin early settlement.

LTNDBEROH THE HERO. 'Received lliis day at S a.m.) PARIS. May 29. Lindbergh, prior to his departure for Brussels, superintended the tank tilling and final adjustments and signed Lebourget’s golden book with an oilstained hand. An enormous crowd, cheering enthusiastically, watched the departure. Many broke the cordon of troops compelling him to take off hurriedly to escape his admirers’ zeal, lie was escorted by a squadron of military planes and flew over Paris, where the roofs and streets were packed with cheering crowds. He dropped a message of thanks, flew over Senlis and dropped a message saluting the town’s courage in wartime. He was welcomed at Brussels with equal cordiality, tens of thousands cheering when fie drove through the streets and wreathed the Unknown Soldier and Airmen’s Memorial. Their Majesties audieneed and decorated him with tho Cross of Knighthood and Order of Leopold. LONDON, May 29. One hundred thousand men and women greeted Lindbergh at Orovdon aerodrome in the afternoon. There was almost unlimited parking and motorists converged at all points that a half mile harrier was erected, behind which the public watched the hero. The American Ambassador. Mr Loughton, Sir R. Hon re, and a crowd of distinguished people welcomed the happy airman. PRO-CHTNESE PLOT IN MANILA. MANILA.. May 28. The naval authorities here checked a plot by Shanghai Communists and Filipino labourers to blow up a naval ammunition dump at Cavite navy yard near Malima, for, the purpose of blocking a shipment of ammunition to tho American ships in China.