BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 April 1925, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Avstralian and N.Z. Cable Association > ; , . .'. v.7,s.■ ■ ■ .... •.. 1 ■■ ■ "7.. / . / .. / ' • * . '■ 7;J: -7;7 / 7 ; • FLIGHT Th ASIA. , >7*. ■ ■ ROME; April .'27.; ' The Italian airman /'Dipinedo 7has left. . Baghdad . dor/Bushire' : oi/-h.is . flight to Asia.*. . / ,' 1 r> '" ■ ‘ •’/’ ’> ' /' *' ' ' ' . ' RUSSIAN WOMEN,' \J. ■ $: ' MOSCOW, April,2£. ,A delegation of . five. British? trg'Qe 'unionist ‘women arrived 'to study Uhp. ■position 'of working women in--Rus-sia. . ■ . ~ , y j . ’ NW.,YORK,' April”‘,'2,7’7;'' .Thirty-two -persons -'were' killed; Jn '; fights and' disturibanbes .resulting,'from '' thb’ city '4? Sonora, in Mexico, cn Sunday. /. group poLiTics.V ' ■ f . 7 LONDON, April‘27. ? ■>S:r Alfred Mond speaking at/Chdlml?foyd. ,sauj. that, ;so drpin tliat.flm.tpriee-party system. Avas ehdbd!-'.'' he' belie'vd'd'a four p'aidv.systerii/wQU.Id; ' dventuAlly. dbvelop. •revive;' •'whilp-'Lhlibuf//dtilll split , into ’ J^ommiinists. 1 and JlbderAtes Aviid be-. i;bVe in clembcratic. iristl'fiitio'ns;. $ “ ' ■. ' ■'■7..' ? I'- 7. / -r— / '777 -J \7 ' JA'PANESE/'UNREST. .7 ' /.'/ • 7• ■ ■ V . // oTQKIQ, April 28./y Royher Uchida, chiefi qf tpe BladJt Dragon' Society- of ’ Ultra-F*ri?cisls “qif Japan; has Jieen arrested- for allege*’ .- toiripiicity . In’ a plbt/tp 1 . aisSassinAte... Premier . Kato, discovered it mJiitn ago. \ 1 ' '■ f . ASIATICS'BARRED. rA‘ ( , :• VICTORIA, AprilV2E.’, / A resolution urging the 'Fedelal/Gd*' verhme'itt 'lb put a totaL <stbp'Ap ‘tire > innniqration of'.’Japanese into .Canada Ivas /idepted- byia-ine'etirig 1 consisting 'of t>he hundred’iind7?sstv ' delegates from various,: organisations in British Columbia,

. FORGERS SENTENCED' .7 ) 7/ 7 BERLIN; Apijl 277 ; ■ Two artists were / , Mind "guilty. of forging British bank, pound ■ notes and were sentenced 1 to “1.2. aridt 15. iponths respectively/ Two ;of theii - ?vaccorii plices esc’aped to foreign" ' Thousands of the 1 forged’ nt/tes'? are still circulating. The imitation is so good that \ the jnotes oftcn are ’actepted'even bjmks. ' x

' CINEMA ON ’.PLANE. \ - /- /. LONDON, April; 9i '■ The ,first cinema show, to be given in an aeroplane proved.7successful. /:Tho aeropldney/yas lost in a fog over, the Croydon, /aerodronie, and strangely enough fhe .film which was shown .was Sir Arthur .Conan Doyle’s “The T/St. World/’ The'experiment is /probably the forerunner of cinema being installed on every'. croSs-channel -aero'-, plane. ’

GIFT TO LEAGUE. ’• - * GENEViA;. April .28.' ■ The New Zealand Government has informed the; 1 - Secretariat/"'of' the League of Nation's of' willingness to contribute . timber \ for. phnelling one of the rooriife iff 'tlie rieW Assembly, Hall of the League of Nations, which is not yet built. This is the first ofrer of the kind 'received from a,njr/Gpvernment.'■ '■ -./. graves. . . , JERUSALEM, April 28. /; The Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem consecrated the cemeteries at- Gaza and Deir El Belah, in which Australians and New Zealariders are buried? Sir H. Samuel? Lord). Allenby--and the < Grand Rabbi of Jerusalem' were, preseiit. cTnctialbri - ite/h-esehtatives. ‘de the .Greek/ Coptic? ? Armenian faiths. .. The cemeteries are practically completed/' •/ j,.:';-'?’ ' ■;/■■ '. TTb /••". I-.-7 MOTOR LIBEL CASE. ; ' ’ ’ . ?■ < ' -LONbbN. “April- 10. -’-. / 'The case in which John Harper . Bean,managing 'director Betin/ MotbMConipaiiyi.' sued/Charles ■ .War'ji-! in an, a- for' dariiages £or libPl; was Concluded yesthrday.-'’ Th£ jury found for plaintiff; and awarded liiin £3OOO damages. \ / / . ; The case arose/ottt of a letter which Wardman set to Bean’s father, Sir., George Bean; in WhiSh Bean’ was ac-, cased of “wicked jfrfd' immoral decop•l- m . ■ »’. . i■? . I . :*■ ■ ; J r -.' • ) - jt. /WIRELESS ! AND PRESS '// .. LONDON; April <2B. The Postmaster. General, replyiik.g' to the resolutions of the Empire Press Union has sent the'Union a sitrnipaty of recent Empire wireless develop-, ments, incidental .dyith his statemeiit in the Commons on April 7. He mon-itions-that Canada, South Africa and India ’accepted the invitation : -to ~he represented oh. the JComhiittee... but ■the Commonwealth and New Zealand Governments haid, not .yet replied.' • '■ • ?, /'f INDIAN DIVORCE SUBftji-. 7 ■/ CALCUTTA'; / ApfiF ■' A society divorce'shit 1 is* ... attention liere. The plaintiff .is, Byin- y cess Debt/ who is suing ’Prince -Victor-. Narayan, heir'to flip/throng ;•■ Behar, Bengal, on the ground oLih'isconduct. . . For two days the Princess has'bezrt . in the witness box, detailing an amazing number d; \-esidPilces bcctipied“bj’herself and her husband. 1 1 ' ,

Cooch Behar is one of .the- most enlightened native States of .India,.. and its rulers have Ru’i’opeiih customs. ■■ v, A'■ i,'-. •• •'. • WEMBLEY EXHIBIT, H LONDON, April" 13. ‘ The Government pavilion at, Wein-' bley is preparing the most edmprehen- , sive and most graphic mfedicaF«xKß>itever devised. The exhibit will (he evolution of medicine, and-will in; elude tho African. niediciiio.' ittan’s primitive ideas' of preventive medicine, and .also a range of charms, ; votive (of*- . fe'rings, amulets;and modern rheumatism rings. Lister’s work will be'ddhtrasted with that of a modern operating theatre, whjle open-air .schools and games, and (he possibilities of sunlight treatment will' be demonstrated. '■ ... , 'MIGRANTS’ TWAVE-R FARES. ’■ LONDON. April 28. 1 The new Australian migration passage money agreement has bedn signed. The following are. the .rates -becoming operative on May 1:—-phildr-en under twelve free; up to seventeen years £5 10/- ; up lo nin'eteen J 7eai ; ;■ domestics £.ll:' married, couples withoh® child under nineteen -years, £ll fqr each 'adult: other adults £l6/10/-.'Th® 'difference between- the new fares and the contract rate of for adults wiU be borne equally bv the Imperial and Federal Governments, '/. A-