BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) FLOOD DISASTER. Warsaw, Sept. 1. A cloud burst and persistently heavy rain, caused tremendous damage. Already twenty are drowned and the crops are swept from the fields. Several oilfields have been cut off and work has ceased. It is feared the wells are severely damaged. Troops were utilised to persuade the inhabitants of Stryj to evacuate the town. FILM OF GALLIPOLI. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 1. British instructional films have completed an arrangement with the Admiralty to film the Gallipoli campaign on the basis of Ramond’s novel “Tell England.” weaving in. campaign incidents. The film will bo ready in April.

IRISH ELECTIONS. LONDON. Sept. 1. Free Slate nominations close on Sa turday, when the shortest and hitter est campaign in Ireland’s history be. gins. The parties are frantic-all) grouping themselves with a view ti avoidance of waste voting power, necessary under the proportional representation. Mr Cosgrave has succeeded in reducing the number of Independent candidates, but. the Fanners’ Party which had five* seats in the late Dail. refused to amalgamate with Mi Cosgrave. hut are advising supporters fo give the second preference to C.sgravites. The latter will probably nominate one hundred, the Fanners’ Party 28, De Yalorailes 80. Labour, which is admittedly financially weak is reducing its nominations compared with June. Johnson emphatically denies Labour is any wise allied with the De Yalorailes. On the whole no striking turnover of votes is expet-ted. Two Dublin Conservative papers forecasts give Cosgrave a fifty-Tiftv share of seats, which will mean only llm narrowest margin of safety . NATIONALIST CLAIMS. SHANGHAI, Sept 2. Local Nationalist authorities stale two divisons of Southerners crossed the Yangtze and drove out the Northerners and re-occupied Pukowo, silencing artillery which had been bombarding Nanking for the past week. They claim they killed, wounded or captured over thirty thousand Northerners in the reent fighting disarmed forty thousand and scattered the rest.

British warships anchored at Nanking confirm the retirement of the Northerners at that point owing to the menace to their line of communications by Hankow troops advancing through Northern Alibivei, but other reports state a large body of Northerners is still on the south bank of Yangtsze, preparing to attack Nanking.

SPANISH POLITICS. MADRID. August 31. Five pounds sterling for each sitting will he the remuneration for 360 members of the new Spanish National Assembly, which meets in October to form a constitution and to prepare tlie .Fudge t.