BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 June 1926, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Australian *nd.N.Z. Cat-fa Awociatioa.! (By Gable—Press Assn.—Copyright)

PARLIAMENTARY CONGRESS. • . -LONDON, June 17. The Marquis .of, Salisbury heads the Parliamentary Delegation to Australia. Rt. Hon. Arthur Henderson is included in the six Labourites going.

RUSSIA AND CHINA. TOjKYO, June 16. The Foreign Office has received information from 1 Russia, formally annexing a section bf Mongolia. The authorities are perturbed by constant repoyts of Soviet advances -southward in the rear of Pekin.

AMERICAN SPECULATION. NEW YORK, Jwid 18

An avalanche of selling orders, representing heavy profit-taking (by large traders, sweet tkn stock inaiycefh’ just before the close of Friday, 'carrying scores of issues to nearly nine points below Thursday’s final quotatfpfi,. The lolal sales were rtbove two millions. .< t..i ■ f.y.ij EMPIRE AIR LONDON, June 17. In the House of Commons, Sir. Harry Brittain enquired whether.negotiations were in progress for continuing >an airship service from India to Auptyalia. Sir S. Hoare .stated khat no actual negotiations \vere in progress, but*they had every hope that their present scheme of airship development w.ould lead to a regular service to Australia.

FRENCH CABINET, i . PARIS, June 18. M. Heriott has virtually dcelined to participate in the Government. M. Briand declared, that he was continuing the task of . forming a Ministry wide enough to embrace l hose With power and authority inlispensible for facing the grave task, but if he did not succeed, he would not form a Cabinet.

GERMAN FLEET.LONDON, June 17. The German Fleet appeared in the English Channel to-day, for the first time since the war. Six vessels steamed past the Goodwins, passing the scenes of the immortal fights wi|h the Dover patrols. The warship Glasgow, which escaped in the Coronel naval disaster, during the war, and which later assisted Admiral S,turdee, to take revenge upon the. German squadron at the Falkland Islands, has (been scrapped.

GERMAN LLOYD SERVICE BERLIN, June 17.

The North German Lloyd Shipping Company commences on August 11> vith the steamer Creferd, a direct three-monthly service, for third class passengers only, between Bremen and \ustralia) The journey outwards will be by way of the Cape of Gooti Hope, the liners returning via Suex Canal.

The Company thinks that German emigrants will prefer to travel by the German boats. The fares will be reduced to the lowest possible figure.