BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 November 1925, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

~‘f> iU't. -.'f'•• (Australian 'and; N.Z! - Cable Association.) i - 1 ' 'U’ uw, i . ; MOSUL DISPUTE? . ; ’ i ; CONSTANTINOPLE, Nby. ;28. -oThfc Council ■ of : Ministers: de’cidedato\refuse .the, League’s jqbmpulsorjj arbitration regarding M<isb.l.; V' . . ... ; • ’ BRITAINIS EARLY WINTER? *■" """ LONDON, The Manchester races, including the November Handicap, and many ■football- matches, have > been;.- abandoned owing to frost. - ; 7 ' •-? ; j 's'-. k.." . ■ i .. ; ' AIRMAN? KILLED;-V.Q i ..... s LONDON, November 28? <-Flight Lioiit. Slater and', his - pilot officer crashed- iipon the Ayon aero-drome,'-and were killed.; The former brought- down .twenty, German machines during the, War. J..-.. 1 WIRELESS' DISPUTE. , . LONDON; iNoveinber 28. ',” i nlti is understood that in.view of.tllie strike ‘of. Wireless , opei'(itoi'S,. the Board of Trade has -cancelled/ : tew.' poxarily, the rule re^ui ring each vessel to carry at least tl’J’ee wii'dless men. ■ -7'”-/ CANADIAN’- EX-SERVICEMEI?.;. VANCOUVER, Nqvem.ber ?28... At a conference at Winnipeg of Canadian Legion of -thej'Britieh.e-Em-mre Service League,, it-was decided to adopt the new name of,the United War Veterans’e.OrghhUation. yLtehtr General Sir Percy .Lake is its ~, (first president. ; - ■ $.-. j;; ;■ --' »' - ■ ” SHIP AND jjitEW LOSTiK; J AMSTERDAM, November 28. The Million -was . J Vlaardinger. iShe Js'.jeported to have collided duringstonft with/n.'ship which sank immediately; It'was impossible to save- .the ; (lostcraft is believed totbe:..a,putpK\sc.hOoner with thirteen aboara; SENTENCED ’ COMMUNISTS " , . ■; fi> g Z? . The-;executive -.of the MinejrsUFed-. eration unanimously protested,against the - -“altogether un warrantable; and. severe sentences” imposed on Com.-, munist officials, alleging political'bias and demanding their immediate/ release, and - the prevention of < this; jittempt to interfere with the freedom of the press, of speech, and %J>f opinion. ( . ' ■ 7b. JEWS ON THE RAND. vIi; ", CAPE TQWNk November 3.9. The Johannesburg'“Staf’Vannduncps that' a secret society entitled “We League of, Gentiles,,”, has been’ formed on the Rand, to boycott Jewish traders and professional; men.-jt'already numbers ten thousand members," and aims at casting out sociany?;.industrially and ■ economically the .Jesyisb element, members mostly of well-td-do class, ' ’ LADY MAYORESS’S DEATffj.’ / LONDON, November 29. rt ?; Lady Pryke (wife of the Lorii Mayor of London) attended the mopn? ing service at the Westminster. Abbey on Fridav as well as the service, Paul’s in the evening. AfterwardsWie joined the family at dinner, and;later,, retired seemingly in good health,;;al though she had suffered from influenza recently. The Lord-Mayor, entering her bedroom half-an-hour;later, found his wife dead on the floor./She was 78 years of age. ’ .

•. C. •; -Y t.. > 'x t * t’r ’'. 1 ”iV" ’■ *, WHEAT PRICES. ■ : '• t , LONDON, Noveniber .t 2,- ■ a The neivsp'aper “London porter?’ states that several causes have contributed to a. sharp adyancq in wheat- prices' *sirice ,tlw».v.begi.iining; 9*. October, including Russia s. failure tq .ship the expected quantities, -the - Auis.r, tralian reduced ci’pp,’\ add in Argentina by rain, rtust.dand' frost. The predominant factor,TM ? ay , s ’ Canada, where a w}ieat .podli 1® holqing back' wheat, and ia forcing piuced to a high .’ level; i owing '-to lack of South African competition.’ ~ ?

ANGLO^GERMAk'TRADE.!,! H BERLIN,.- ,i? 8. . .. A ; disagroepienthas occurredi||. rpT; warding the interpretation of a ■clause in the' Protocol of the A®g German Commercial Treaty whereby the British Government pledged- itself not to improve duties especially detrimental to Germany.’-', man delegates claimed that the i-Brlt-ish customs duties on' many; German exports .particularly musical ments, and pianos, should-Be' gated or considerably reduced \ . view of this clause. ' ■, . \

INDIAN DACOITS. . DELHI,. Novembbi 1 29. Sentences of transportation passion 108 Dacoits rat f Nainital,-. bring -tx an - end the”career of a remarkable band of criminals, who for ten years have terrorised the sub-mountain tracts of the United Provinces. Several -leaders were previously,icaught and hanged; A special force of police hat? been engaged on the wtork for three, years, in most difficult country. Numbers of men were killed on botti sides, during- the skirmished. ?■ ' . .