BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

RHINELAND ARM V. PARIS, Aug. 23

In a statement to the newspaper “Excelsior” regarding the Franeo-Bri-tish Rhineland negotiations, Herr AVirth, ex-Chancellor of Germany, de : dared: “There is no use disguising that their is a misunderstanding between Germany and France. '1 be latter regards the Locarno Pact as lowing to be treated in a new atmosphere, but without any change concerning the Treaty of Versailles. Germany on the other hand expects Locarno to restore her sovereignty and wants to see an end, or at least, a mortification of the Rhineland occupation.” He warns France that delays involve danger. lord pexrhyn dead. LONDON, Aug. 23. Obituary—Lord Penrhyn, former owner of Top Gallant.

TURKISH ELECTIONS. J.OXFOX, Aug. 23. Tho “Times” Constantinople correspondent says the general elections will he held early ill •September. The reelection ojWbrmor Nationalist members depends upon the Kemalist Party. T\emal desired that in future the Assembly shall Ik> composed of intelligentsia, imbued with Republican principles.

EGYPTIAN NOTABLE lib. CAIRO. Aug. 23. Znghlul is seriously ill, his temperature being 104.

ZAGHLUL DEAD. CAIRO, Aug. 23. Obituary.—Znghlul, the premier of Egypt.

PARIS, Aug. 23. The newspaper “Humanito” says the Federations controlling food supplies, transport and amusement, should enforce an. intensive boycott of A’ankee capitalism. GASOMETERS EXPLODE. LONDON, Aug. 24. Two gasometers, each containing two piillion cubic feet of gas, exploded with

terrific force at Manchester Gasworks The noise was heard live miles away Eighteen persons in the vicinity Mere injured and tlierc were a number ul remarkable escapes from death. There Mere tv.o explosions in rapid succession. fragments •were hurled tne hundreds yards and windows were smashed. A workman imo liuiul red yards distant v.as lifted eighteen inches in the air. Cars rushed the victims to the hospital and a strong io'ice of police and fiiemen cleared the adjacent streets, closed shops and schools. Another gasometer nearby, said to lie the largest in the world, escaped.

PACIFIC CABLE BOARD LONDON, Aug. 23

The Pacific Cable Board -Meeting was nimble to deal with the question of the Chairmanship in the absence of replies from some of the Dominions.

INDIAN TRIAD. (Received this day at 0.50 a.m.) DELHI, Aug. 25. The biggest revoltionary movement in India in recent years reached a climax to-day when the chief court of Uudh confirmed death sentences cm four Indians charged with complicity ill train robbery and murder. The accused had been before the courts for two years. It was through the accused holding up a passenger train and looting it in 11J25 that the authorities discovered the existence of a widespread revolutionary organisation in the United and Centra? Provinces, working in concert with a main organisation in Bengal. The result was that the police watched suspects, made many arrests and seized arms and ammunition. Accused with twenty-four others made a practice of holding up trains with the object of securing money to finance the revolutionary movement.

KILLY SEASON ESCAPADES. TOKYO. Aug. 25. Newspapers are featuring the siliyseason escapades of a lew youths claiming to represent an important element of .Japanese protestors, against the execution of Communists in America. The facts show postcards, mostly unintelligible, received at the American Embassy contained threats. The police were notified and the Embassy quarters guard was immediately strengthened. Two delegates saw one of the Embassy junior secretaries and a few precautionary arrests were made, all being released later. The police authorities state the more important Daboui organisations received letters and telegrams from America and Moscow urging co-operation in a world-wide movement, hut the appeals were ignored by the responsible leaders.

JAPANESE DEMAND. < Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) TOKYO, Aug. 25. Osaka, Mainichi. and sister newspapers in Tokyo, Niehiniehi Associated, the most powerful newspaper combination, permeating the entire country demand a war on China unless China's intention to levy surtaxes on manufactured cotton output is abandoned. The “.Mainichi” devotes two columns to an editorial call for the immediate cessation of China’s arrogance or Japan will be compelled to assert and protect her treaty rgihts forcefully, independently of other powers, unless their cooperation is secured. It quotes the Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs as saying that Japan hitherto had been over moderate and it was high time she changed her policy ana adopted a stern attitude, hacked up hv the entire nation of Japan.

LEAGUE CONFERENCE. LONDON, Aug. 25. The “ Daily News” correspondent at Geneva says the third conference, on communication and transit met in the famous glass pavilion attached to the League building which the rioters seriously damaged. Roller blinds outside and.red curtains within hid the riddled windows, hut smashed mirrors were not removed. The Chairman announced the Soviet refused representation hut desired to he informed of the decisions.

REMOVING SGI,MOON. LONDON. Aug. 23. Bill Sykes’ legendary home in Bermondsey will disappear under the London County Council’s million sterling scheme to dear out SO notorious slums and plague spots in 13 boroughs, displacing 25,000 inhabitants. Eighteen thousand will be re-housed in new five storey flats, with self contained tenements, two, three and four rooms letting at 10s (id to Los weekly. The remainder will be accommodated elsewhere Eight and a-lialf acres of slmmlom are being cleared at Shoreditch alone; others in Poplar, Islington, Deptford, and Bethnal Green. New buildings will 1 employ 13,500 men all the winter, erecting Hats in several areas, simultaneously, enabling the quickest transformation of slums in municipal history.

Dickens’s associations in Bermondsey commemorated the ocacsion by naming the fiats Pickwick and Oliver Twist.

’PLANE CRASHES. LONDON Aug. 23. Another secret long distance R.A.F. flight project was thwarted when a ’plane piloted by Flight Lieut. Rag became entangled in telegraph wires when taking off at Lymnene for Tangier. The machine crashed and was wrecked, but the pilot was uninjured. 'Hie ’plane lumbered along the ground for some distance and then slowly rose. Ra.g made a, desperate attempt to lift the nose over the wires hut the ’plane toppled over and hit the ground heavily.