BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 March 1925, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

■■ .. , (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) : rcu IMPERIAL POLICY. : ' - iu : LONDON, March 23. «-Tli e'- High Cominis shiners-.) ahd-, Mr. Baldwin, the invitation, to-nigltb conferred with-, him and' jMr. Ch amber lain on; Empire problems; ■ . ;' I .« \ •J . ,‘e-— '. y>.. /y 4 • PHII/ADELPHIA EXHIBITION;' •! >-WASHINGTON, iMarch; 23. J President Cooli'dge has issued' a -proclamation' ‘ /inviting all Foreign Governments Moi participate in an International Exposition at! Philadelphia, , from June 10 to November 30, 1926. !; ■ ■ 11 ijt ’ ■■ ■ WAR MEMORIALS. IL ii-ri-oi March 24. 'Mr. Iltlrst-SeagSer, the New Zealand 'War-Memorial Architect, is taking to ’New Zealand".; txVb hundred lantern slides of metnori'als en iroute. He attends a town planning :. conference at ,New York. ,o_ . r . ; .1 , M.'.t'ffto U ' ' ' MAJOR’S MADNESS. J ONDON’ March 24. : The Scottish High Cour- judicially .ordered .Major Middleton be detained during Majesty s pleasure; Evidence i showed '?th at the accused’ ’ had' foux- attack? of)apoplexy, was paralysed oir.tithe left side, and 'Suffered ■ delusions. P , I .-I ' ' ."0 -’tiptl'.-rt ' '.'vr;' ‘ , ' • CHINESE' BANDITS I • - i"i ( Bandits attacked.* the: village ..of Yongchengyu in 'Mongolia, ahd 'burnt the premises of the Belgian mission, anil setufi’re.'to many hottses' helofagi l ;? iing'to Christians, of Ayrlioni ;th eye were a large numbeiri,inl the .villfigfe. They also shot- a priest;' who is' be? lieved tOj beoa-foreigner, /v -fiy.STEEL INDUSTRY CRISIS.' LONDON, March 24. “The Times” /states that .a British steel* crisis is threateifedjjim itheq'Fesult- of i unfair foreign icompetition. Manufacturers may apply to the Board of Trade to appoint a committee under the 'Safeguarding .of : lndus-;-tries scheme, to.. consider : the' position. This is, not yet definitely-decide ed, but a case supporting the application is being !prepared. o It- -is,-;-stated that Continental firms are quoting considerably, below the a,ctual cost of production. ,

SOVIET LEADERS KILLED r LONDON, i March 24.. > A junker aeroplane, flying. from ;Tiflis to Suchum/ caught flre. Jn inidk air, and dived to earth killing two pilots and three passengers, -the last named being Miasnikoff (member ,of -the-. .Presidium Central Executive Committee of: Soviets), ■ r Mogilievski,/ (President of* - the ~ Extraordinary. 1 Trans-Caucasian Copimission),... and. Starbekqff. (Representative-, of -the. Post and. Telegraph Commissariat) who were en route to the Congress at Suchum.