BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) AUSTRALIAN CARBIDE COY. LONDON, Sept. 3. Tho Australian Carbide Coy. has circularised its shareholders. It is at present not paying an interim dividend oil preferred and ordinary shares due on Sept. Ist. It has not received accounts ironi Tasmania owing to the <1 istan.ee and brevity of the time, but particulars, so far available, have been unsatisfactory. 'I ho directors are discussing the position with the Tasmanian Government and are also considering improvements.

mail bag robbery. LONDON, Sept. 3. A great mail bag robbery resulted in the disappearance of £B,OOO of Treasury notes. 'I here is no trace of the packages, which were taken by two officials from Bournemouth Branch of the National Provincial Bank to the Post Office, registered as usual and placed in a mail bag which was sealed and entrained long with many others for London, stopping only at Southampton. On arrival at Waterloo Post Office the collectors noticed one hag bore the seal of another Post Office than Southampton. Tho seal had been broken and another substituted, and the hag filled with wn.slepa.per. after abstracting the notes. It is stated that during August, the chief holiday month. Bournemouth branch transmits as much as £75.000 weekly to London.

FORESTS EFFECT ON RAINFALL. I ONR ON. Sept. I. Meteorologists do not believe forests have any practical effect on the r.iinf.oll. said Dr (L C. Simp-on, Director of the Meteorological Office at the British Association meeting. !L- added the amount of energy in a single storm i.s entirely out of proportion i t anything that could he. il"i: • by ; tiering the ground. Doctor Brooks said u forest Unity feet high should increase local rainfall one per cent. The chairman summing up the debate showed that forests ft id not much alfoct. rainfall, hut might greatly affect water .storage and or isions.

GERMAN'S POINTED QUESTIONS. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) BEEFIN'. Sept. I. “Has (he German people forgotten it lost tho greatest war in history? Don’t you consider it extraordinary that an impoverished Germany should have the world’s most powerful wireless station, the longest, racecourses and largest covered courts,” These were the startling questions with which Dr Duisberg (President of the Federation of German Industries and President of the Dye Trust) electrified an audience of two thousand prominent. German industrialists at the Federation’s annual meeting. He fiercely denounced the belief that everyone was able to live hotter than hefore the war. whereas it should he tho exact contrary. “Let us hohfewer meetings and banquets,’ appealed Duisberg, “for while there is a distinct revival of trade and a. big reduction of unemployment, there is scarcely a. trace of improvement in exports. This is partly due to the crippling Dawes Plan, which must immediately he revised and partly to tho terrible need for economy.”

SOVIET EMBASSY. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) PARIS, Sept. -1. A stir lias been created by the revelation that the Soviet Ambassador. Rakovisk.v, at present in Moscow, is one of the signatories to a minority manifesto urging workers in capitalist states to revolt aganst their Governments, and soldiers and sailors to join tho Bed army. The subject was discussed bv Cabinet. M. Sarraut insisted there was ample evidence that persons connected with the Russian Embassy, were playing a role. 3 lie Government could not tolerate this, M. Briaiul agreed that a protest was necessary, courteous but firm. One Minister advocated a rupture of relations.

NEW SEAPLANE. LONDON. Sept. 3. A seaplane or airscrew driven water skimmer wherein a breach invcntoi. Degasenko, with a crew of three intends to bounce the wnvetops to New York crossed the Channel from Boulogne to Dover in 30 minutes avei aging 75 miles hourly. MR SAKi.ATVAI.A, M.P. LONDON, Sopt. 3. Despite his protests that lie is an Indian subject as well ns being a member of the British House of Commons, the Foreign Office has informed Mr Saklaviiln, M.P. for Battersea, that the vai’iditv of bis passport to India has been cancelled. ROTO KIT A DEPARTS. LONDON, Sept. 3. The Rotorua, has departed. COM.)I UN ISTS AHP ESTER. BUDAPEST, Sept. 3. In a Communist round-up throughout Hungary, mini hers were arrested, fifty in Budapest, including Ignncc Kornis. who posed as a nerve specialist and allegedly offered to ensure a Budapest revolutionary outbreak similar to Vienna’s July outbreak, also to blow no Mnufredwiess. Ho is further accused of blackmailing bank directors, but declares he was merely experimenting with psychoanalysis.

FRENCH SATISFACTION. I PARTS. Sept. 3. The Finance Ministry communique expresses satisfaction at the regularity wherewith the Dawes Plan, applied for tho first triclinium, ending 31st. August, constituting a touchstone, whereby France obtained payment of an important share by deliveries oJ kind The experience lias been favourable and the Ministry is considering tho utilisation of subsequent larger annuities, including development ol railways and ports.

ANARCHISTS ARRESTER. PARIS. Sept. 3. The French anarchists. Daildot. Robert, and Ilian Roncliini, Secretary of the Intcnational S-ncoo-Vanzetti Defence Committee, were arrested. Raudet and Robert are accused of several church robberies and assisting fellow anarchists to evade the police. Roncliini was deported.

INDIAN INTERNAL FIGHTS. DELHI. Sept, 1. Serious fighting is reported between Sunnis and Shiahs, two sects of Moslems belonging to Orakzai Tribe. Kalava. north of Kohat, on the north-west frontier. The trouble started through inflammatory preachings of a notorious Orakzai fanatic named Mohammed Aklmmbda, and Sunnis, in large numbers, aided by Afridis attacked two small Shias Tribes, killing and wounding a thousand, burning and plundering their houses. Thirteen were killed and a hundred wounded as a result of a clash between Hindus and Moslems at Bareilly, at a Hindu festival in progress. Moslems objected to Hindus playing music in front of the masque. A riot ensued and the police had to open fire to restore order.