BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 April 1925, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association-} ' . HOMELAND' .TAXATION. -' ■ - LONDON) April 20. The “Daily News’’ anticipates.that Mr W, Churchill (OhancSlibr -pf the Exchequer,).-will, on April ' -28; ' annouiicoa shilling reduction iir the income tax. j.'. ; \ ~ , ■■ ' • •LISBON CASUALTIES. • LISBON,‘ApriI; 20. Twelve were killed, and'severity Alitee were wouhded in the'co'trrse-’ of the-’ bombardment. The situation-is-now quiet. ■ L•••..; ; SPANISH AVIATORS KILLED. MADRID, April; 20.- '* At Melilla, in the course bf. a Yecbn--naissance ’flight oyer V rebel I ' villages,-j Spanish aeroplanes - were ''shbt-' dowW ; from , a great height.'' .The: pilot- and observer were incinerated. A -.- ,-i. •FRONTIER' FIGHT.: ; ' A .' DELHI, April 21:A gang of Afghan rai.dei's,' cydssingthe frontier, were engaged by* a Britishcorps, -who beat them' off 'after a!st'erh fight. Fourteen raiders were' killed and eight taken prisoners. Two British were-killed.

RAILWAY WORKERS STRIKE; DELHI, April-21. T welve thousand Indian artisans; engaged in, the Laso-re.-Karachi centres of the North-Western Railway,-struck for better conditions. A thousand meh were dismissed and .the Karachi, worjk-' < shops'-closed. . New .WorkeiiS ;aile being' engaged: ‘The normal train Service being maintained by loyalists.

DEATH PENALTY: ‘ . ! : : ROME;. April 21.

Deputy Farinicci. dsAbringing in a Bill reintroducing the death 1 penalty.' for murder; .but. there is*..little chance bf iti.pass,ing, - as/Premibr Mussolini is strongly opposed" thereto,, on. the' ground that capital puhishment ’is contrary to public opinion. .

• KING IN PARIS. LONDON, April 21. It is announced that the King and Queen intend breaking their. holhe-. ward journey at Paris on "Friday, when they will lunch with President Doumergue. . Afterwards. . they will lay a wreath oil the tomb of the Unknown Warrior, resuming .their' journey to London, in the evening.- / JAPANESE ARMY. ' " TOKIO, April 21 The War Office’s military reform programme includes the readjustment .and establishment. of a national' mbbdisa- ■ tion system, revision pf .the conscription law, the inauguration of oil and'Steel policies, encouragement of aviation, especiallyaeronautical industry,, and .also the establishment, of an air service separate, and of equal status .with the rest of the services. . '. CANADIAN AFFAIRS. ' OTTAWA, April®2o.. Lord Byng proposes an’ .exploration tour-over most of. northern Oailhda in A ugust. nexti ’ • He ’ hppesi to go to the: youth of the MacKenzie; River, arid thence through the • Arctic Ocean around Point Barrow, and on through Behring Straits ;and home to Canada; The President of the‘United Mr Coolidge, has ( promised td come to, Canada to .unveil a -peace..monument erected by Canadians in Scanley Park, Vancouver, the site. of. the last notable speech ever,made?,by-’ Rre--'d«nt Harding a few days befrire -’his death. . -. 7 MOSUL DISPUTE. , . PARIS, . April‘2o. Colonel Paulis, one of the. League of Nations - three Mosul. boundary; arbitrators, has made a'* statement: on the matter. He. deplores the fact that certain English: newspapers haoi appeared to. I^o., doubting - tile arbitrators’:' impartiality, -< yHe declared that each arbitrator hasLcarried ; opt an absolutely independent ipypstigation. ;i They .were meeting shortly ;at Geneva. P’jJt yvas even- '.possible, that they might meet, elsewhere; 'doh ash to avoid the chance of any outside * influenee. He emphasised that-nobody knew the .arbitrators’(-decision, winch would "hot 'lie based' oh iinpihsSionSi but on facts.« ,iu?d col-, lected, on the spot. . (