BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 March 1926, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian and N.Z. Gable Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn. —Copyright.) LIGHTHOUSEMEN RESCUED PARIS, March 3. The two lighthousemen who were marooned since December last, have been rescued after twenty attempts. ARSENAL ON! FIRE. TQKIO, March 2. An unconfirmed report states a fire in a torpedo factory [in Kure naval arsenal resulted in the destruction of the main portion of the building with the plant. f ’ TOGOLAND PETITION. LONDON, Marco 3. The ‘‘Times’s” Berlin correspondent states that the natives' of Togoland have petitioned President Hindenburg praying for the release from British rule and a return to/ the Fatherland. CANADIAN POLITICS: OTTAWA, March 2. The Address to the . Throne was carried in the House of .Commons by 111 to .102, the Government majority being nine. The House automatically adjourned till March 15. In the interval the Government will prepare a Parliamentary programme. ARMY ECONOMIES LONDON, March 2. Sir Worthington Evans, in a speech at Salisbury, announced that the Army estimates w6uld be 42i millic-sa, compared with 44J millions in the current year. Administrative ‘ expenses would be cut down, but tlte fighting efficiency of the forces would be unimpaired. LEIPZIG FAIR. LONDON, March 3. The Morning Post’s Berlin correspondent states that President Hin-. denburg visited the Leipzig Fair, where foreigners are buying this year more freely than are’ the Germans themselves. Important orders have been secured from England, Australia, America, and the Balkans, • BRITAIN’S GOLD ,RESERVES. LONDON, March 2. In flie House of Commons,'replying to a question in regard to .Britain's present gold reserves and the. export of gold since the restrictions were removed, Mr R. McNeill stated that the gold, coin and bullion in the issue department of the Bank of England on February 24 was £143; 186,000, a "net

reduction of £10,720,000 since April of last year. BARRED COUNTESS. NEW YORK, March 2. “To set forth specific information why the Countess Karolyi, of Hungary, was barred from the United States would .be to divulge international secrets,” so AssistantDistrictAttorney Rober declared to-day in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in reply to a motion made on behalf of the Countess Karolyi. The Court took the case under consideration. C.O.D. FOR PRODUCE. LONDON, March 3. a The “Sketch” says: In response to* the public demand to eliminate the middleman’s profits, the Government has decided to emulate the Dominions, and institute an extensive cash-on-delivery parcel post, embracing agricultural produce, bringing, it from the farmyard to the doorstep. It will chargeprobably threepence a parcel for collecting the cash and handing it over to the farmer. MURDERER EXECUTED. LONDON, March 2. Lincoln has been executed. He died fearlessly. He stood to attention on the scaffold, and expressed his pegret at being unable to see his father. The whereabouts of the father are still a mystery. He has not.beefi seen anywhere on the Continent. It is now believed that Mr. Tribilsch Lincoln did not land in England from the steamer Coblenz, in which he is supposed to be. The mystery is deepened by a report from Colombo that the police there have not been aware of the presence of Tribilsch .Lincoln in Cevlon, nor of his making a dash to England. The steamer Coblenz reaches Rotterdam on Friday. POLAR EXPEDITIONS » NEW YORK, March 2. Secret “mystery sleds” are being built in France for a French Naval Expedition to the Arctic, according to a statement by a prominent engineer, just returned from abroad. He states that Daniel Martens, a Norwegian explorer, invented the machine, which operates on the tractor principle. The pulling wheel is in front, and it is equipped with rubber vacuum discs. A telegram from Nenana, Alaska, states that the oil and gasoline for the Wilkins trans'-Polar expedition will be transported by airplane from Fairbanks to Point Barrow supply base on the Arctic Ocean. All attempts by snow motors to haul the supplies have failed. ' I MAHARAJAH’S GUILT. DELHI, March 3. Maharaja Indore’s letter, offering to abdicate, has been published. 'lt recalls that when the Moritagu — Chelmsford report was published, eight years ago, he criticised it, holding that neither on analagous international law, nor as a matter resting on the treaty, was a Prince of his position liable to be tried. Rather than sacrifice himself by abdicating.’ He sacrific himself by abdicating. He feels that the world may wrongly draw conclusions regarding his guilt, and may never realise that it was not consciousness of guilt, but adherence to principle, which determined his ac lion. He left to the sympathetic consideration of the Viceroy matters relating to his seat, his family and himself. The action of the Maharaja is the outcome of the recent appointment of a commission to inquire into his alleged connection with the abduction of the dancing girl Mumtaz Begum, arid the murder of a man named Bawla, who was accompanying her.