BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 March 1922, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Associationj NELSON’S FLAGSHIP. LONDON, March 23. , The Admiralty have decided that Nelson’s ship “Victory” must remain in dock at Portsmouth where t visitors will be allowed on board. j “ COMPULSORY GERMAN LOAN . Reed. 10 a.m. BERLIN, Alarch 24. The Government has announced a compulsory loan proposal m consequence of the Reparations Note. Mih--1 isterial circles regard the whole taxation programme as useless. ENGINEERING DISPUTE. LONDON, Alarch 24. The Labour leaders and the employers’ representatives maintained prolonged negotiations yesterday in endeavouring to settle the engineering dis pute. It is understood negotiations collapsed and at midnight the position again was critical. bottoailey case. LONDON, Alarch 23. During the evidence in connection xvith the Deutschland purchase in the charges against Bottomley, he declared that when the vessel crossed the Atlantic she was laden with torpedoes. Bottomley alleged he had incurred -oss in exhibiting the vessel to the pub'c, and also by being sued for compensation by the dependents of the victims killed aboard the vessel when she was being broken up. ' UNIVERSITIES’ FINANCE. LONDON, Alarch 24. ■the Royal Commission on the Oxford and Cambridge Universities, which was appointed m 1919 to consider the Universities’ applications for State financial assistance, has issued a report recommending that each university receive instead of- the existing interim grant, £30,000 as an annual grant and £lOO,OOO, with an additional £lO,OOO For special purposes, embracing women’s education, and extra mural workalso a lump sum for pension arrears.