BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 October 1926, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association), (By Cable —Press Assn.—Copyright,} MOTORING RECORD. LONDON, October 22. Parry Thomas put up a world’s record in an hour’s run at Brooklands, motoring 121 miles 1307 yards. SPAIN FEARS FREE TRADE. MADRID, October 22. General De Rivera, commenting on the bankers’ manifesto, says that Spain will adhere to Protection, depending on her agriculture for victory in the struggle.

YOUTHFUL MIGRANTS.

LONDON, October 22.

At present there is exceptional activity in juvenile migration. Mr Amery farewelled to-day forty youths and twenty girls, making altogether 5000 migrants sent out under General Booth’s scheme. BLOWFLY PEST. LONDON, October 9. The New Zealand Government has applied to the Bureau of Entomology for assistance in destroying the blowfly on sheep. The Bureau is sending this year 1150 parasitized blowfly juparia to the Government Entomologist at Wellington. BEAM WIRELESS. LONDON, October 22.The possibilities of the beam systbm was evidenced in the transmission of a forty-three-word message from London journalists to Montreal,the answer being received"within two minutes. The Post Office anticipates opening the South African service in four weeks, the Indian service in six, and the Australian service in ten weeks.

BRITAIN AND U.S.A. NEW YORK, October 22< The Bishop of London, addressing the Pilgrim’s Society, told them tliat the American school children were- being taught to hate England, and this,” he said, “is one of the causes of r/schief making between Britain and the United States.” r The Bishop declared that the teaching of hate for England in the schools “is a matter which might well occupy the attention of an important group of men such as you.”

ANCIENT LAWSUIT LONDON, October The Privy Council has opened k th® hearing of a remarkable la™ s ™* tween Canada and Newfoundland, tor which it has taken 25 years, to prepare the records. These now are reduced to 4,200 pages of-print/with innumerable maps. The verdict involves the territorial ownership of large:areas of Labrador, the Privy Council having to decide the precise meaning of th® word ‘'coast.” The struggle fest the resources of timber and in the hinterland of Labrador, which will be of immense value alike to Quebec and to Newfoundland. It is intimated that the problem goes back to Io7Q, when Charles ihe Second conferred the charter on the Hudson Bay Company.

TOO Al ANY LOANS. LONDON, October 21. Professor J. Al. Keynes, the wellknown writer on economic scbjects, and the. editor of the “Economic Journal ” writing in ‘The Nation, pleads for the re-imposition of an embargo on foreign loans, owing to Britain’s depleted resources, due-to the six months coal stoppage. . - The British foreign trade ni 1920, he says, will yield an excess of only seventeen millions isterling in the visible exports over imports, compared with a surplus of eighty-live millions in 1925. Even allowing for the increased shipping earnings, the reparation payments, an dthe enhanced profits of the international banking, Britain s surplus in 1926 for foreign investment cannot exceed fifty millions, whereas seventy-two millions of foieigri loans have 'already .been issued m nine months.