BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 March 1924, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

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• WIRELESS AT VATICAN. - ■ ■ ■v. d;.- ROME, March 6. Workmen are busy on the ■ Vatican roof installing wireless to : enabild’-w*-Pope to listen-in. . His ■ Holiness is greatly pleased at the gift. /■ v IMPROPER PUBLICATIONS? LONDON, March;:.?. Mr Henderson has informed, ‘the Paris police that a large number of improper books and photographs are coming into Britain from Paris. He has ■ asked that ’ /stringent action be taken. The French police/ thus far, have arrested 15 people, and have made big seizures of books. STRIKE AT WEMBLEY. , ■/’ . LONDON, March 0.. There is trouble at Wembley Park over the employment of non-umon ' labour. A strike has been fixed for Saturday failing ap’. agreement’, bbing reached at a meeting,... qf -. the . Union delegates and the employers to-inorrbw. . CATTLE DISEASE. . f . NEW YORK, March 7<? New outbreaks of foot : andtinouth disease . have alarmed herdsmen throughout California. < Forty \ of the best dairy herds have already ’* beep slaughtered. Canada has- declared an absolute prohibition bf cattle if rima.' the United States owing to the Outbreak. MYSTERIOUS ISLANb’t y.T. . ' ■ ' : . DELHI, March 7. ' An island which suddenly-appeared above .the waters? in- Bengal’ ’Bay . in November has disappeared 7 As mysteriously as it came, leaving a shoal dangerous to shipping. It was a thousand feet long and thirty feet high, .and is presumed to have been the result of volcanic activity. ‘

LUXEMBOURG LUNATIC. LONDON, March 6, The mistaken identity " of’" - Major Bailey was revealed when the asylum authorities checked the ■ measure-; ments of the man supposed to-be the wife murderer, which did not tally.’ Otherwise,’ the’ lunatic? who is 'an Italian, named Ltiici Belli, has a most remarkable. - resemblance to Bailey, even to a smashed finger and a shrapnel scar. Similarly his name,, also contributed to the mistake.

LONDON PORT CHARGES. LONDON. March .6.

The Port of London Authority hqs decided on various increases in the charges from . April 1 on shipping goods, ranging from .to 100 per < ,Mr Ritchie states that of +’-<? beginning of June, the dockers receive their second shilling advance, their wages will represent an increase of 157 per cent afiove prewar times.

PHILLIPINES UNREST. C WASHINGTON, March 6. Replying to the Filipino delegation and to the resolutions sent from Manila. President Coolidge says : that he does not think the present is ah opportune time tb extend the independence to the Philippines. The American Government is convinced that it has the overwhelming' support of the American nation tin., a conviction that at present independence would be a misfortune, and might easily become a disaster, to the Filipino people. * ’-. - .

AMERICAN WHEAT TARIFF. WASHINGTON, March 7. President Coolidge under the flexible provisions of the Tariff Act, will to-day order increases in tariff rates on wheat, and wheat products. This action vdiich follows the recommendations of i the Tariff Commission, will probably effect 50 per cent increases, making the new wheat tariff 45 cents a bushel, while milled products rate will exceed a dollar per ’.hundredweight. President Coolidge’s; actioh will be the first of its kind under the present law, which was enacted in. ; September, 1922..