TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18152, 15 August 1924, Page 8

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Woollen Company. The K.'i"'i \Y-)oi!'?u Company made a i pro lit i'-j-jSI las' year. The r: pr,rt and baiance-sht'et of the conij>jr.v arc jiven on our commercial p: yc.—l':.ge 10. Motoring Pr.^es. Afoi:rLug items are on pages 4 and Letters to the Editor. Letters to the Editor will be lour.d on page 11. Racing snd Trotting. Uncing and trotting items are on p.':a;. s 12 and 13. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Huhr Deadlock. Negotiations over the military evacuation of the Buhr have broken down temporarily, and the Germans Lave approached Mr Mac Donald to act as a mediator. Floods in China. Mftv thousand people were drowned, and 10,000,000 are homeless as i result. of disastrous iloo'ds in China. Autumn orops have been ruined, and there are fears of a famine'. Policy of Peace. President C'oolidge, in accepting renoiaination for that office, emphasised that America's foreign policy was one of peace. His own desire was to see war outlawed. Colonials as Governors. The ''Daily Herald" suggests that • Dominion Governors might equallv well be appointed from other Dominions as from the Homeland. Safety at Sea. New Board of Trade regulations to become operative next July demand more efficient lifeboat and raft equipment. Boxer Arrested.* Arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of murder, "Kid McCoy," the boxer, is reported to have confessed. Items. The Dominions are opposed to carrying on the Empire Exhibition in its present form in 1923. General Bruce says that another attempt to scale Mount Everest will be made next year. It has been discovered that glycerine has a decided value in the treatment of diabetes.