BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONG-DISTANCE SWIM RECORD. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) COPENHAGEN. Aug. I-’. A Finnish railwayman, Maemaei'iali--I*olll. aged 29. claims the world’s ic(urd tor a long-distance swim. Me started from Valamo l.odoga on tin* Kill and readied Sortavala on tinJ Ith, covering forty-two kilometres, lie was necompanied the "hole wav In a coastal artillery motor-boat. A doctor was aboard.

.MURDER MYSTERY. PARIS. Aug. il

A mystery is engaging the best detectives in France. I lie bodies o! three young men were found secreted in a field near Paris. One was shot three times m tin? skull, and another shot five times, and a third was lying some distance from the others. It lias been thus far ascertained that two Czeclio-Si'ovakiun stnednts recently arrived in Paris with a considerable bum ol money. It is believed that an ae* (juaiutancc lured them with the aid of tin accomplice to a field, and murdered them. Thereafter, it is believed that the murderers visited the field and (|iinrrclled. one being slain, thus accounting for the third body found being flirt her removed from the others. A survivor, it is thought, obtained possession of the dead men's baggage from a Palis hotel ami decamped.

DIAMOND RUSH. CAPETOWN, Aug. 11

Fxtraodiimry preparations are being made for the diamond rush, newly proclaimed in the Transvaal, and posted as among the richest In the country. Diggers from ail parts are crowding to the farm, and large sums are being offered to athletes to peg the best claims. The owners have spared no expense in laying out a township on up-to-date .'fines. The race tor claims will he three miles.

AS RESULT OF' X.Z. Til I! FAT. LONDON. Aug. II

Tin* Daily Chronicle says Mini tin* threat of the New Zealand Aleut Producers’ Board, to build an open cold store in London, resulted in a ieduction of the charge.*; in the London cold stores for the first mouth of A 7*. to ."As. and the second mouth to "Ms to 295. Officials of tiie X.Z. Meat Producers' Board, eommeiiling, said: “Whether the reductions will satisfy out' people remains to In* seen.”

The Chronicle expresses the opinion that the reduction is to ltd vial to affect the retail prices.

GREEK CRISIS. CABINET RESIGNS. ■ATHENS, Aug. 12. Tiie Royalists' systematic* (distraction resulted in the Coalition Cabinet's dissolution, Al. Tsaldaris and others (|uitting the Council Chamber. The immediate cause of the crisis was the schomo of AL C'nfandaris, Minister of Finance, depriving the National Bn;tk of the rigid to issue hank notes, establishing a new bank for the purpose.

RUSSIAN' AFFAIRS. LONDON. Aug. 11. A most reliable interpretation of recent e,vents in .Moscow is probably that 'transmitted by tJie Berliner Tagehatt’s correspondent, who says:— “The light for Lenin's crown will continue at present inside the Communist. Party, hut on much more equal terms. Trotsky's tinny has been heartened by success and reinforcements and Stalin has been correspondingly weakened. Trotsky is undoubtedly the abler of tho two, hut Stalin is more moderate, mid will make a stronger appeal to t'ho masses, when tiie time comes, ns it undoubtedly will, for a conflict to be carried on outside the party.”

IMPOSTER'S ARREST. MADRID. Aug. 12. Doubting a Bavarian guest’s stories of his war exploits verification was sought and it was discovered that the guest was Carlo Von Areo. the swindler, who was then arrested and he subsequently confessed that he assassinated the Bavarian President. Eisner in 1919. NOTED INVENTOR DEAD. LONDON, Aug. 12. Obituary.—Joseph Harris, aged 80. He was the maker of the iirst bicycle in 18(5/, and the inventor of the Braille frame. LONDON, Aug. 12. The northern profesiomil golf chain pionslnp at Blackpool was won by Charles Wliitcoinbe with a score of 280 for 72 holes.