BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 August 1925, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian and N.Z; Cable Association.)

STINNES'ESKCI'E. '.>• BERLIN/ 30i - • ■ Stihiie's’y liquidatbre -aitjip.ilncfi that aftel- the payment of debts, a million sterling will be returned to the family.

1 CHANNEL SWIM. itr .T/ LONDON, August 29..

Tli'e 'Japanese Nishimura has abandoned' hismitempt to swim the English Channel from Dover after two hours.

BRIGANDS ATTACK TURKS. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 30. Five hundred Nestorian brigands crossed the Mesopotamian frontier and attacked Turkish- frontier posts- at\Mosul,- but wei'e repulsed. -has' appealed to the League of Nations.

U SPAHLINGER SERUM. J ,'!' LONDON, August 29. ■ of Crewe ij inviting the Maydrs of British citieb- tt> raise £50‘,000 to' W- the Spahlinger Institute. Sir ■ ' James Allen has x been deputed to enlist the sympathy of the Lord Mayor of London; : ’A.' > LMiw' . PERSIAN' 1 FIRES.' I; • ,'. BAGDAD'/ August -29-, Twenty-three and-'.ll- - :hou? e 8 were destroyed by a fire.- Another big fire in Basrah on Thursday night did damage estimated "at fifty- thousand pounds.' • TRIBUTE TO MRi'MASSEY. '' ' •• LONDON,’ Aug. 28/ The'Fitzroy Memoirs'’stkte that; the late Mr. MasseywhiTTa type not altogether ' comm'on amtoiig -Colonial statesmen, the’ possession of frankness and dignity : of.,address jff his quiet competent manner. i ' ', BRITAIN-AND MEXICO- ' ■ 5 : ',t (LONDON, August'29l

-It. i& officially!rsta’ted 'mu the- Government have decided tO'resume full official relations- 1 -with Mexico, the' : outstanding having been satisfactorily settled.. The present Consul-General, Mi*. Norman King, will, be Charge dlAffairsj.'pending the appointment of a Minister.

RUSSIA AND - POLAND. 1 " WARSAW; 29. A mixed Pole-Soviet-j Commission has reached an agreement Hurt the settlement of the frontier; troubles. This includes the t. exchanging of arrested soldiers .and police?, the payment of compensation’ and' and a mutual undertaking to cooperate in the prevention’ j?f further conflicts. COMMUNISTS ARRESTED, PARIS, August 29. ? The police were busy this’ evening in frustrating .Communist. -Efforts' to form pr'ocessions-in various parts of the capital, as a demonstration against the Polish execution'bf 'CoDlmunlsts. There were one hundred and forty persons arrested, twelve of > whom were detained in custody. RUSSIAN ORDERS. LONDON, August 30. The Russian Textile Delegation has ;one to Germany from London. They issued a statement asserting that six Lancashire manufacturers accepted ,bi‘lers for textile machinery on the delegation’s terms, ' but the delegation deeply regretted inability to place orders foil five millions "sterling Worth of machinery in England,-as they-had intended, owing to the banks refusing credit.

AIRMEN KILLED. LONDON, August 29. Flying Officer Butlin and Pilot Officers de Robeck,. were killed while engaged in fighting Manoeuvres. They were flying at a thousand feet altitude when they cod- .. lided and fell headlong.. ? . One machine was ascending steeply, and struck the second beneath; the wing, and ‘immediately it nose-dived. Ihe * second'plane appeared to recover. and it planed towards the •' earth, but suddenly it crumpled up. FOOTBALLER-MOTORIST. LONDON, August 3d George Elliott, the iorpier international Association footballer, of Middlesborough, who was the driver of a car causing a fatality, has been arrested on a charge of manslaughter. He was admitted to bail. LATER. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict that the boy was killed by the car, but there was insufficient evidence to show-negligence on the part of w the driver. .

LONDON’S TRAFFIC. LONDON, August 29-•'

Details have been' idsupd.. of. an Anglo-American scheme • foi’ dealing with goods traffic, in London, at - a cost Ot £32,000,000 by means- of an underground railway connecting all the principal goods antl;th6 London docks. The, ;schen)b js npw being considered by ja ; committee.. .. of representatives of the’ big iailway companies,. It is hoped .that th project will revolutionise the handling 6f overseas "traffic through‘the Port of London, thus once' more attracting ; the tradb ;which: has been lost to W Continent, owing. to’ the expense, and the lack of adequate'handling facilities here.

COLLIERY. RIOT. LONDON. August 28. > How sixty policemen guarding a colliery at Glyheath saw ‘a . crowd- of four thousand appear, oh .the.'brow. -of a mountain brandishing ’sticks -was described by a police .superintendent in the Police Gouyt- when twenty-one miners were charged -with unlawful assembly aiifl.breh.ch of the peace. Tps case was a sequel to the* events on July 30, 31, anfl August- 8; The'witness said he met (he crowd, who announced >t was their intention to fetch the men but- Subsequently a bugle xvas blown, and the crowd,rushed the police who eventually reformed, drew their batons and -di-bve the rioters back..-’ The defendants were committed for . trial. ■- ~,-- 4

WIRELESS “GRIEVANCE.” ' .■ ' LONDON, August 29:/ A wirelessed Mr‘-Marctise ,“2N.M? ? who successfully transmitted gramophone music to the cruiser Seattle, when she in New-Zealand; states that he has -been.'disappointed with the unreadiness- of the Australian aijd New "Zealand amateurs to undertake two-way telephony. His only encouragement so 1 far ‘ was '- his music heard by “3 E.F.’ ’ of Melbourne;; -but nobody has yet answered' his 1 suggestions., to try. i teiephonjH from Australia. It .was not. an. easy job Vand depAildbd largely on. apparatus anfl practice. He" was ready at any'- time* do-7tske'-jip leMs. . Spin® .Morse signals' from Australia from 'iemarkalile strong plants were being ( sen.t, but they should, be, adaptable tn ' telephony. - . -.