BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(Australian & N.Z. Gallic Association.)

A PARIS CLASH. PARIS, Aug. 18,

A .serious clash between Communist -strikers and police occurred in Avenue D'ltalie this afternoon when a crowd of strikers, as a means of protest against the dismissal of n comrade, tried to force an entrance to the Metropolitan Railway Yard. When expelled, they collected a crowd ~l seven hundred, seized a policeman and were proceeding to throw him down a well *'hprt three passers hy moiled him. The police arrived «thl charged and dispersed the mob. Ten wer* injured and three arrested.

► NTTEI) STATES El CURES*. CENEVA, Aug. 18

The International Ha hour Office has irisiied statistics of United States wages for the last 10 years, showing the total wages paid increased hy 175 per cent, and tin; average annual wage increased fro/// £11(1 to 1 £250. whereas the cost ot living iiie/v/anc was only 31 j>er Cent.

FINNISH VOTING fXNT/YAffOX, ; ' VIBORG. Aug. Is. Divisions of the Finnish Parliament now occupy only seventy seconds. A machine has been installed in the -shnml>er beside the Speaker’s chair /Hid when a division is necessary, he presses a button lighting a green lamp, as a signal to deputies, who thereupon press either yes or no. A button is installed in each desk and these are automatically recorded and Exhibited to the House. A mysterious affair. MTHAREST, Aug. 18. The Egyptian steamer Cost! which left Oalntz for Alexandria has fnysferibusly disappeared. She 1/as not been heard 6f since August 3rd. It M Sugg'&lted that the crew, which contained several Bolsheviks, mutinied y tintl have' tiikt’f/ fin- vessel to a Soviet port.' PRINCES VISIT! 6TTAWA, Aug. 18. ..The Prince of Wales and Prince ffeorgC arrived /it Vancouver to-day to spend fp'ut* days there and in Victoria purely (V/i holiday, unlettered' hy social functions'. AEROPLANE VISIT ACTION. LONDON, Aug. i%

Two business men flying from Rotterdam to London in the Imperial Airways aeroplane remembered in the middle of the journey an important 1 omission of business at Rotterdam. >they passed a note to the pilot explaining the situation and asking him to return to Rotterdam. The pilot wirelessly telephoned the pilot of the itoyiii Dutch aeroplane living from LoAilbri towards the English const en route id Ft’otterdUm asking if he had room for two p;isseri|Vers. The Dutchmnn replied “Vos,” lin'd both planes landed at Lynipne. where the lifsincss men were transhipped to the outwaWP bound.

LABOUR CONFER IiXCE. LONDON, Aug. 18

There are nearly one hundred resetut*,ns on the agenda for the Labour Conference. There is a change of front in the case of a capital levy resolution cabled earlier. It aims at a surtax Oft incomes of £SOO and over from propferty and investment. It is explained jiff nil appendix that the capital levy is links advantageous to-dav than five ydafs ago, hellce it is proposed to •AWkri the surtax to affect those who would? have paid the levy in its original form.