BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 June 1922, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

LITTLE ENTENTE. BUCHAREST, June 3. General Pilsudski, of Poland, expected here shortly. It is believed that Poland wiU soon join the Little Entente. NO BAIL FOR H- B. LONDON, June 3. Bottomley’s application for baii, to enable him to prepare for an appeal has been refused. COLLIERY DISASTER. BERLIN, June 2. 1 Seventeen persons were killed, and twenty-five injured by an explosion in a coal mine belonging to Krupps near Essen. Eight other are missing. AUSTRIAN SUICIDES. VIENNA, June 3. Twelve suicides have been reported in 24 hours. The facts throw a flashlight upon the tragic conditions in many Austrian homes. Owing to the rising cost of living, it now takes 47,000 kroner to equal £l.

M.P. KILLED. LONDON, June 3. Mr. John Rees, a member of the House of Commons, fell off the Scatch express at Chesterfield and died. The Coroner’s verdict wase one of accidental death, there being no evidence to show how he came to fall from th/ train. FOR SEAMEN’S DEPENDENTS. LONDON, June 3. Lord Inchcape, in acknowledging the Freedom of Arbroah, announced a gift of £20,000 to the Town Council, to disburse the interest therefrom among the lie reared and* needy relatives of seafarers. BURMA’S SELF GOVERNMENT DELHI, June 1. According to a report from'Burma, the Reforms Committee concedes Burma . practically everything granted to the Indian Provincial Governments, and recommends the elections to the Legislative Council to be held in October.

UNIONIST WHIP RETIRING. LONDON, June 3. It is reported that Mr Baird, M.P., will be the Unionist candidate at Ayrburghs next election, in succession to Sir George Younger (Unionist Whip), who is little heard of politically, latterly. This is taken to indicate his approaching elevation to a peerage. EX-SERVICEMEN’S CONFERENCE LONDON, June 4. Six thousand ex-servicemen benrging to the British Legion, attended an impressive service at the Cenotaph in connection with the Legion’s first annual conference. Prince Henry renewed the ex-servicemen on the Horse Guard Parade, and then Prince Henry and Earl Haig attended »’e servicj

OLYMPIC GAMES. PARIS,, June 3. The Financial Committee of the Chamber limited the Government subsidy for the 1923 Olympic games to six million francs. The French Olympic committee insists on a minimum of fifteen million francs and has sent a letter to Premier Poicaire stating that unless the subsidy is increased, it might be obliged to inform the international council Olympic committee, it was impossible to hold the Games in Paris. HUSBAND AND WIFE. LONDON, June 3. A committee of jurists appointed to consider the responsibility of a wife for crimes under the coercion of her husband, recommends the abolition of the whole doctrine of coercion by a , husband as a defence for a. wife, leaving her on the same footing as other people—free to establish any defence of any kind, or to urge coercion in the mitigation of punishment. The committee investigated South African, Queensland and New Zealand statutes on the subject.

ARCTIC EXPLORATION. SEATTLE, June 2. Captain Amundsen’s ship, the Maud has sailed from Nome, Alaska, on the first stage of its seven years’ journey in the Arctic, carrying two airplanes and a large stock of building lumber. When the vessel is frozen in the ice, the party will build a house for grea.ter comfort and security. - Captain Amundsen expects to study important scientific questions relating to the North. The Maud will be in wireless communication with Stavanger during the whole trip. LABOUR CONFERENCE. LONDON, June 1. The agenda paper for the Labour Party’s Conference to be held in Edinburgh at the end of June, contain? several resolutions calling upon all Labourites who hold them to resign their Privy Councillorships or else they will suffer expulsion from the Labour move ment. Another resolution demands that no member of the Labour movement shall settle their disputes in the bourgeois law courts, but that a representative committee of the National Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress shall be empowered to give decisions on such disputes.