OUR SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 April 1914, Page 5

OUR SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS

[Times and Sydney Sun Seevices-]

CHURCH AND LABOR. THEIR ATTITUDE ONE TO THE OTHER. LONDON, April 21. At the tercentary celebrations of the connection of St. Margaret's with Westminster, only twenty members of the House of Commons were present. Canon Carnegie pointed out the significant rift between the Church and the working classes, whose leaders tactically assumed that organised Christianity and organised democracy moved on different planes. It was an alarming feature of English life. THE BALKANS. POWERS IN AGREEMENT. VIENNA, April 21. Austria's reply to the Entente on Epirus questions was delivered to the British and French representatives.

The Triple Alliance's proposed modifications will harmonise with the Entente's desires ; therefore it is probable that the Powers' collective reply to Greece will shortly be delivered -if. Athens. AVIATION RECORD.

BY SWISS AIRMAN. BERNE, April 21. A Swiss airman, named Oskar Bider, broke an altitude record with a passenger by crossing over the Berne Alps at a height of 12,130 feet. MRS. PANKHURST. THIRSTY SOULS WON'T HEAR HER. ! .". BERLIN, April 21. Tho refusal to give Mrs. Pankhurst a hearing at a meeting at Dresden is attributed to the fact that the women i'ijote closed 2000 hotels. Germany will not let women interfere with quenching the nation's thirst. HUGE STRIKE. M4Y FOLLOW LABOR AMALGAMATION. . "':■■- LONDON, April 21. An immense strike is proposed as a sequel to the amalgamation of 1,000,000 members of the British/ Miners' Federation, 550,000 >A the Transport Workers' Federation, 300,000 of the National Union of RaiLwaymen, and, 200,000 kindred unions who are assembling to' draw up demands for improved conditions.

QUICKER JOURNEY. i ' AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND. LONDON, April 21. The journey from England to Australia will be'shortened to three weeks if the Railway "All-Red" Bill passes the Canadian Parliament, when two steamers faster than the Sonoma and Ventura will be built, The 'Frisco to Sydney journey will occupy twenty-six days. POLICY OF ARSON. HITS INSURANCE COMPANIES. LONDON, April 21. Insurance companies estimate that the suffragettes' policy of arson cost them £250,000 last year. ■ GERMAN COLONIES. EXPANSION URGED. BERLIN, April 21. It is reported that the Crown Prince telegraphed to Doctor Carl Peter,, an .explorer, advocating an energetic policy of German colonial expansion in Central Africa.