BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 June 1923, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian and N.Z, Cable Association. FRENCH POLITICS. PARIS, June 21. The Radical Socialist .Ministers state that it is not intended to obey the Party’s call to resign from the Ministry. A NEW POWDER. WASHINGTON, June 21. The War Department announced the successful development of a new powder, flashless, smokeless and waterproof, adaptable to heavy artillery ami small arms. PROHIBITION REPEAL. NEW YORK, June 21. Madison (Winconsin), reports that the State Senate of Winconsin has killed, by nineteen votes to 12, the Bill to repeal the Prohibition Enforcement Act, which the Winconsin State Assembly had approved by 47 to 43. JAPAN AND RUSSIA TOKIO, June 21; Baron Uchida has issued a .statement that Japan will not'grant recognition to the Soviet Government unless Russia settles for the massacre of Japanese in Nikolaievsk, and recognises the debts incurred under the Tsar’s regime. IMMIGRATION STATIONS. - WASHINGTON, June 21. The Government has, under advice, adopted a plan requiring trans-At-lantic steamship companies to maintain at their own expense proper imm;o)r:t'*on stations. The Unted Nt-'itee Commission has requested the Solicitor'General to rule regarding the legality of the plan. The move comes as the result of criticism in the British P nliam •••i’ over the treatment of

immigrants on Ellis Island. The Immigration . Commissioner, Mr. Husband made a statement admitting fhafi Ellis Islaind was unsuitable, for the detention of persons , other than those of the immigrant type. It was not intended for cabin passengers, but. since the quota law, it. had been nficessai” to detain all classes, hence tint innumerable complaints. A LADY’S STOCKINGS. PARIS, June 21. Mademoiselle Marthe Chenal, a wellknown opera comique singer, was the heroine of a comic opera lawsuit. A hosiery establishment in the Uhamps Ely sees sued her to recover £lO. tno cost of a parcel of stockings which the firm alleged Mdle Chenal had ordered. The stockings were an but size,\ and were fitted with an elastic device to prevent their bursting when used on exceptionally stout legs. Mademoiselle Marthe .indignantly . denied that she could ever have ordered such goods. After hearing the evidence of both parties, the judge decided, that he must personally see the stockings fitted. . The evidence of his eyes convinced him that they could never be any use to Mdle Chenal. The’verdict was given in her favour. Atl h'SfJJEJLvJ