BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) A TERHII'TC STORM. (Received this day at !J.B(> a.in.) LONDON, Aug. IT A violent storm in Saono fit Loin: district, caused damage estimated up to fifteen million francs. C rops were destroyed and cattle killed. Woods were uprooted and roads blocked u bile thousands of people are thrown out of /tmployment owing to damage to textile factories.

CO.M.MEXISTS EXPELLED. PARIS, Aug. Id. “Le Matin” says recent incidents in the Sane territory led the governing commission to expel two Communist leaders, including Sehlafier, a member of the Bavarian Diet and the newspaper “ Arheiter Zeitung” has been suspended for a month.

A RECORD BREAKER. CAPETOWN, Aug. Id

By running sixty miles at Bninwayo in seven hours, thirty-three minutes, fifty-five seconds, Arthur Newton broke the world’s record for the distance by forty-nine minutes live seconds. He now holds all the world's long distance records from thirty miles to one hundred miles.

THE A.MATEFR STATUS. AMSTERDAM, Aug. Id

The International Amateur Athletic Federation passed a resolution regretting the Olympic Committee’s decision regarding payments to amateurs for expenses and warned athletes throughout Die wori'd that anybody receiving payment lor broken time for any sport is debarred from participation in events under the Federation’s jurisdiction. GOVERNAIENT OF .MALTA. .MALTA, Aug. Id. Sir Gerald Strickland accepted the Premiership, and will also become Minister of Justice and Head ol the Police. FORCED TO RETURN. LONDON, Aug. Id. The mail carrier Bremen was forced to return owing to bad weather and arrived at Dessau.