BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 December 1926, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

(Australian & N.Z. Gable Assn.) (By Cable —Press Assn. —Copyright.) GREEK CABINET RESIGNS. ATHENS, Nov. 30? The Kondylis Cabinet has resigned. It is announced by all parties that a Coalition Ministry is being formed. URUGUAY, ELECTIONS. MONTEVIDEO, November 29. The partial returns of the Presidential election in Uruguay indicate a victory for the Coleradd Party, and the election of Doctor Juan Compisteguy. HULL BY-ELECTION. LONDON, November 30. At the Hull by-election,-Commander Kenworthy, who, resigned, was reelected as a Labourite, with’ 16,145 votes. Gaunt (Conservative) obtained 11,466, and Kerr (Liberal) 2,885. U.S.A. SENATE. VANCOUVER, November . 29. A message from Portland, Maine, reports that the Republican retention of control of the United States Senate is assured by the. election to-day of M. Gould (Republican! as Senator.

NEW CARDINALS. ROME, November 29. It is reported that the Pop.e is enlarging the Sacred College of Car’dinals, from 70 to 80. This is reported to be iii order to increase the representation of the non-European countries in the College, particularly Australia, and Canada. EMPIRE SETTLEMENT. LONDON, November 29. In the House of Commons, .. Mr Amery, replying to a question said that from the first of January to. the thirtieth of September, there , were 52,750 emigrants under the. Empire Settlement Act, of whom 5,§QO. familes, comprising 20,648 . individuals, went to Australia and New -Zeafand. GARIBALDI’S . LONDON, November. 30. The “Dailj’’ News’s” Paris. correspondent states: Picciotti fl Garibaldi, confronted by an Italian witness,' allegedly confessed to a plot to seize Carlo Bazzi, formerly a friend of Mussolini, now a refugee, for the ptirpbse of obtaining documents, for which Garibaldi offered £35,000. “Humanite” declares that Garibaldi was in the pay of the British Secret Service. MOORISH FIGHTING. TANGIER, November 29. Brigands from a newly-revolted tribe, killed near Tetuan, a sergeant . and two privates guarding a pay chest containing twenty thousand pesetas., Spanish forces seized hundred thousand douros comprising the stolen war chest at Jerir'd. The thief was imprisoned.. The Spanish reserves have seriously checked the rebels. • - ' .V. BEAM WIRELESS. LONDON, Nov. 30. The current will probably be let in at the Australian beam station tomorrow, but it is not certain whether a private test will be made on the same day. It is now suggested that a reduction of the South African wave length for the purpose of ensuring a longer period of daily communication is likely to postpone the inauguration of that service till January. EX-KAISER’S EXILE. LONDON, Nov. 30. Both the “Central News” and the British United Press correspondents at the Hague, declare the recent visit of ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm to the ex-Kaiser was connected with the latetr’s desire to leave Doorn. The ex-Crown Prince pointed out that the time was unpropitious, but \ the .ex- * Kaiser is impatient, and longs to live on the sunny banks of the Swiss', lakeside at Maggiore. \ TRANS-ATLANTIC TELEPHONY. ' • LONDON, November 30. “It is now possible and expected shortly to be practicable to connect a telephone subscriber in Western. Europe with a subscriber i© Notth America,” said Sir Ernest Rutherford in his Presidential address to the Royal Society, in which he attributed the success of the Rugby wireless station to the breadth of scientific knowledge and boldness in initiative of the Imperial Wireless Commission and the engineering staff of the Post Office. COAL STRIKE., LONDON, November 29. In the House of Commons, the Labourites continued to resist . the renewal of the “Emergency” Regulations. Mr Tom Williams said that eighty per cent of the miners would have agreed by to-morrow to resume \ work. . Sir W. Joynson Hicks: If that is true, I shall ask the King to convoke the Privy Council on Thursday to re voke the regulations. With the completion of more district arrangements, 21,500 miners resumed to-day. The total is now nearly half a million. AYRSHIRE FIRE. LONDON, November 30. The Ayrshire became a hopeless wreck. She was sunk by the Lupin. The crew are coming to England. A later message contradicts the report of the sinking of the steamer Ayrshire. The Lupin is endeavouring to tow the vessel to Colombo. COLOMBO. November 30. The Lupin’s attempt to tow the Ayrshire has been temporarily abandoned, owing to a jammed rudder. The sloop is standing by until the fire aft is further subdued, when the rudder may be freed. The forepart of the ship was examined and some’of the cargo jettisoned. ' HEAT SUPPLIES.. BERLIN, November 30. Professor Binz, addressing the Association of' German Chemists, emphasised the fact that the world’s resources of oil and coal are-• slowly nearing • exhaustion. Unless tlie white races were to succumb tpthe coloured races, the whites,'’ he; said, must solve the problem of tapping the heat of the'tropics, in order to provide, light, heat and power. Recent inventions, such as synthetic nitrpgen liquid coal, and helium from oxygen, seemed to ' warrant optimism .regarding the further domination .of the whites, but it would be better- if the nations, instead of fighting each other were united in a struggle to bring; tropical warmth from the Valley of the Nile to Europe.