BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(Australian it N.Z. Cable Association.) POLK'I') MAN I’.ATT KHIvD TO DlvATt BKIILI.V, Auo. 2b. At Hamburg ConiiiMiiiist Sacco ill inoii-t rat .ms barricaded a street atn attacked tile police. Hinging stones am bottles. They drugged out a police man oil' duly who was travelling i a trumenr and brutally maltreated him 'I lie policeman endeavoured to escape lie was collared alter imming a lev yards and recaptured, bludgeoned am .stabbed to death. Police i'iimFi injtc 1‘ the' rescue received a hail of stones am retaliated with revolver shots. Onle was restored after several hours’ fight in;;. Several police and numerous on lookers were iniured and many arrest were made. A LONDON TCKK. Lf'INDON. Any. 2b. The construction lias been complete! of London’s latest tube, which is specially built io carry London's mail 1 mat ter. There will he- six stations he tween Whitechapel and Paddington and driverless electric trains will c-nrr.v lort.v-live tons of mail in each direetioi hourly, savin" postal van transit to the extent of IlHl.Odli miles annually. HIOT DA.MAOL. PA 1! IS. Ait". 2b. Damage during the Sacco riots is estimated at ten million francs, of which the ( Loveniment are paying sixty and the municipnlitv fortv per cent. .M any ol those nrrested were tried amt sentenced to-day to periocls of a molt tit to ten months. BKA.M WAVKS. PKOC! I! KSS O'-’ T|->'Ts. Mfeceivcd this dnv nt 10. lb a.m.) LONDON. Amt. -2b. Despite the temporal y dioi-gnnisn-tion of t,!r.' aerial test, due to a lizard crawling into a feeder tube of the receiving apparatus, Marc-oids short wave lienm stations at Grimsby ami .Skegness for hit'll speed coimmmieation with India suec-es-sfuJly passed (he seven days posl office test. The average speed was 130 to 1 -*.() words per minute with 18 to 20 hours daily. Till capacity of (lie circuit is 180,000 daily in each direction. Stations are only rec|uiretl under the Government contract to despatch or receive simultaneously cme hundred words per rnincite during n daily average o! twelve hours. .Mr Keiloway said the Indian beam stations were aide to wink eontinuottslv at a high speed during the monsoon period, a remarkable testimony to the system's freedom from atmospherics. The Kmpire now possessed the most complete and most, up-to-date service in the world. Although the fndiiin stations were erected, communication between Britain aml tiie Dominions thereby would not lie completed before the end of 1928. Then teheihrme subscribers in Knglattd should he able to speak to any part of the Dominions. Benin stations enabling -Canada and Australia to communicate direct. arc ncarir.g completion.

Mart-uni's will open within three weeks commercial hegm telegraphic services he! ween England and ■south Americii. Knnhmd and I'n.iled Stales. Tie- Grimshy-I ndia Ira nsmi lii ng installation occupies the same room as the Australian which works on a single wave lengths alternatively directed easterly and westerly during (lilFerenl parts ol' Ihe day. while the India!! allows the nse of a second waive length, transmission being alw-ays in one cl i i oct inn. the Indian aerial s.. steni has five and the Australian, three masts.

ITALIAN EDITORS’ PROTEST. [Received this day at 12.25 P-ni )

GENEVA, Aug. 25. Editors and publishers ol live of the biggest suppressed Italian newspapers sent a. memorandum to lbPress Conference characterising pence time censorship as tho greatest menace to international understanding, which was proved by the persecution of opposition Liberal press in Italy. SCENE AT LEAGUE UNION. PARIS, Aug. 25. 'fbe atmosphere of cordiality at theopening of tbe International Parliamentary Union was rudely dispelled by the speech of Loebc (President of tbe Reichstag). M. Poincare welcomed the delegates and mentioned appreciation of the work of preventing tbe isolation of tbe thoughts of nations. Mr Loebc rose and declared distiust was worse than bate. If France was willing to sav that after 1927 not a single French soldier would remain in Gorman territory it would serve tbe cause of humanity. He sat down amid silence; 'ria l -Secretary General’s report wa.s pessimistic r.n the European political outlook. There- were, bo said, many centres of ovation in Central Europe. Balkans, Adriatic and Mediterranean, but the worst feature was that Europe bad not reached an equilibrium enabling it to face tho future with confidence. Jle admitted the economic centre of the world was passing to America. He appraised the work of the British Imperial Conference, which ho said, was a new example of the Brutish people’s wisdom and spirit of accommodation.

ALT, EG ED CONSPfR ACT. LONDON. Aug. 25

Fean Mcßride, a sun of Kanor McBride. who was executed at Dublin for participation in the 1916 rebellion, was charged under the Public Safety Act with being a person suspected of bein ge.ngn.ged in conspiracy and murder' of O’Higgins. Tbe Magistrate pointed out. be did not feel justified in remanding tbe accused under the Act, which only became law a month after the nrtirder. The police agreed to a remand for a week, in order to alter the charge to conspiracy under the ordinary law. MOUNTAIN RAILWAY SMASH. PARIS. Aug. 25. Tt is believed fifteen were killed and 25 injured by the derailment of a train descending the mountain railway from Mcrdcglaco near Mount Blanc.