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Evening Star, Issue 18543, 28 January 1924, Page 8

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Pre«* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. GERMAN SEPARATISTS. ANOTHER ASSASSINATION. BERLIN, January 27. (Received January 28, at 11 a.m.) Herr Schicht, a well-known Rhineland Separatist loader, was assassinated in the village of Adnau. His assailants escaped. —A. and N.Z. Cable. DARING DAYLIGHT ROBBERY. PARIS, January 27. (Received January 28, at 11 a.m.) Armed bandits carried out a daring daylight robbery at Osterdag’s, a famous jeweller’s shop in the heart of a fashionable shopping quarter. Three well-dressed men entered the shop, foiled the doorkeeper with blows from an iron bar, and then shot the manager in the abdomen and head, mortally wounding him. They then decamped with valuable booty.—Sydney ' Sun ’ Cable. STEADIER BURNT. WASHINGTON, January 27, (Received January 28, at 11 a.m.) Eire to-night burnt the steamer Midland to the water’s edge. The damage to the wharf and smaller craft was 500,000 dollars.—A. and N.Z. Cable. MISS MARGARET BONDFIELD. LONDON, January 27. (Received January 28, at 11 a.m.) Miss Margaret Bondfield will go to Genova as the Government’s representative on the governing body of the International Labor Office of the League of Nations.—A. and N.Z. Cable. BERLIN COMMUNISTS. BERLIN, January 27. (Received January 28, at 11 a.m.) Tho Communists are organising a five minutes’ general strike on Lenin’s funeral day as a mark of mourning.—A. and N.Z. Cable. AEROPLANE ACCIDENT. DELHI, January 27. (Received January 28, at 11 a.m.) Advices from Peshawar report that an aeroplane crash occurred three miles from Quetta, resulting in tho death of a passenger and Leading Air Craftsman A. V. Stevens, and also m alight injury' to the pilot (Flying Officer J. N. Jacques). Tho cause of tho accident is not yet known.— Reuter. LONDON, January 27. (Received January 28, at 11 a.m.) The First Lord of tho Admiralty (Lord Chelmsford is considering tho Navy Estimates. It is expected that tho Singapore base will be allotted £50,000, and that the full cost will not bo reached before 1928.—■ Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.

BRITISH AGRICULTURE. LONDON, January 27. (Received January, 28, at 11.30 a.m.) The Government is summoning a conference of land owners, farmers, and farm laborers to consider agricultural problems. —A. and N.Z. Cable. CHURCH UNION CREATES DISSENSION. OTTAWA, January 27. (Received January 28, at noon.) A Toronto message reports that union of the Presbyterian, Methodists, and Congregational Churches of Canada has been ap accomplished fact for several months in many districts of the country, but there is antagonism amongst a minority of the Presbyterian faith, which refuses to join, and this minority has appealed to the civil courts, asking for prohibition of the delivery of church property to the new union organisation.' A long battle will probably ensue.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable. FALL OF THE FRANC. PARIS, January 27. (Received Januaiy 28. at 11.10 a.m.) During the resumed debate on the Government’s financial proposals the Socialists attributed the fall oi tho franc to the Government's foreign policy, but M. Poincare asserted that an organised campaign existed against the franc with a view to discrediting tho Government. • M. Herriot, the Radical Socialist Loader, declared that the recent heavy fall was due to the British Conservatives selling sterling and francs in order to buy dollars. He declared that a Dutch bank had bought 1,000,000 dollars with francs. The closure was adopted without opposition. There will be a further debate on Monday.—Pieuter. THE RAILWAY STRIKE. LONDON, January 27. (Received January 28, at 1 p.m.) Tho Trade Union Council has forwarded a proposal that the managers should guarantee a relaxation oi tho hardships which tho men suffer under the reductions conditional upon Mr Bromley’s union agreeing. to a fresh ballot. It is expected that this suggestion will afford the Government an opportunity of making peace. Unemployment duo to the railway strike is spreading. One hundred and fifty thousand men are idle in South Wales. It is estimated that the strike is costing the country £1,000,000 daily.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable. GERMAN RAILWAY WORKERS RESTLESS. BERLIN, January 27. (Received January 28, at 1 p.m.) A general railway strike is threatened. The employees aro demanding an eighthour day. —Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable. TRIBUTES TO LENIN.' LONDON, January 27, (Received January 28, at 1 p.m.) Mr G. Lansbury presided at a meeting of British Communists held in memory of Lenin, whom tho speakers eulogised as a genial soul, and full of love for all peoples. He was the saviour of Russia, which was tho hope of the world.—Sydney ‘ Sun' Cable. BRITISH MINISTERS. LONDON, January 27. (Received January 28, at 1 p.m.) Mr MacDonald, Mr Henderson, Mr Thomas, Mr Webb, and Mr Gosling have resigned ■ their membership of tho Labor International. • Mr MacDonald, like other Premiers, has received threatening letters. The writers are mostly regarded as being of unbalanced mind. The police have arranged for their personal protection.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable. EMPIRE EXHIBITION. LONDON, January 27. (Received January 28, at 1 p.m.) Mr dynes paid a visit to Wembley. He expressed the opinion that the exhibits would do more in three months to educate public opinion regarding tho extent of our Empire's interests than a lifetime of other methods. He said it was certain to stimulate trade, which was ono of tho healthiest ways of developing that friendship and co-operation by which alone Labor believed that the Empire could endure.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.