BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 June 1925, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Australian and N.Z, Cable Ajjebciation.) » LONDON AERIAL DISPLAY. ' ,LONDON,-' Juim 26.’ , Fil'ty-nino. aeroplanes flew over London at 10’0 iniLs per hour,' demonstrating lor the Roylil.Air Force. TRADE TREATY PASSED. ' OTTAWA, June 26. The Senate to-day gave the third reading of the Australian Treaty, witn. su!; I FOOD COUNCIL. ' .- ; . LONDON, June 25. - ■■ .In the House- of. Commons, Sir P. Cuiiliffe-Lister announced that 1 Lord Bradbury would be. Chairman of the Food' Council .. . ( , MOORISH OFFENSIVE. ' ’ PARIS, June 26. It is -rt’Rorted from Fez that Abdel Kf-iiu' has’launched- a l -general offen? sive, with a vyew. to cutting the Fo?> Ara road. Confirmation, of tho report is not obtainable. . ’," :. SOVIET’S VICTIMS. ' AIOSCOW, June 2b'. . The sentence of death pissed on tliA. woman Krecz,kaska ’has been commuted *to ten years’ imprisonment. All the other apiH'als were dismissed.

TITLES PURCHASE. / LONDON, June 26. Lord Salisbury’s Bill to'prevent traffic in honours provides two .years imprisonment and, or, a fine of £suo for accepting giving pl’ offering money in. endeavouring to procure a title.

JAP- SHIPPING SLUMP. \ SHANGHAI, June 26. Advices from Nagasaki state .that owing to shipping depression the/Mitsuoishi dockyard discharged' eleven hundred works.: s, who, were not satisfied with 300 .to 400 yen each. They ' sembled at Asa,'Park;- but' wore - dis persed by the police; Further demonstrations are expected. ' NOVA SCOTIAN ELECTIONS. ' HALIFAX (Nova Scotia) June 26. The Government of Premier E. H. Armstrong has been defeated at th J polls .in the general elections in Nova Scotia, -byrthe Conservatives, under the leadership of Mr E. 'N; Rhodes, thus ending forty-three years’of Liberal rule in the province of Nova Scotia. , The indications are that tlie Conservatives have won forty seats, and the Liberals three seats in the House of forty three members. ' Premier Annstrong was defeated in hts own ricting cf Shelbourne. ' SOLDIERS GUARD FILM. • LONDON, June £5. The War Office is inquiring inte f > use of territorials to guard the film of an American! The American conveying the film, explained that it cost one million dollars. It, wafei-the only existent negative and the insurance policy stipulated that he', should .'travel incognito, and should .not fraternise with the passengers. ; The ne[<five, was guarded continuously. His represeniatives in Britain had obtained the territorial guard by undertaking to film the territorials’ procession for recruit, ing purposes.-

AMERICAN FLEET. . ‘HONOLULU, June 25

Admiral Coontz to-day issued the first formal outline of the manner oft, procedure of the fleet en route to Australia and New Zealand. The orders stale that during the cruise the Com-mander-in-Chief expects to see great strides made in training' along all lines. Tactical training for each unit is to be combined with gunnery.training as far as practicable. This matter ' must be considered -as a development. It is the Commander-in-Chief’s. desire that the attention of the unit commanders be given to the development of visual signals, particularly The transmission and reception 0f... code groups by flashing light-. The. Flh«t cutie-c will be the tender Melville. Thu Commander indicates that when information is received at Pago Pago regarding the Australian entertainment programmes, efforts will be made to distribute as much as possible of this data among the Fleet personnel. The sub-djvidon cf the Fle°t into detachments for Sydney and Melbourne will made at a-rendezvous ,in latitude 38.10 south." longitude 150 east.