BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 December 1926, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) ■: KRASSIN’S FUNERAL. MOSCOW, December 1 The late M. Krassin’s ashes have arrived from London. Members of' the Government and friends carried them to the Red Square . and placed them on the wall beside Lenin’s mausoleum, while cannon fired a salute. LEAGUE OF NATIONS. GENEVA, December 1. A League of Nations Council Committee, investigating the possibilities of speeding up the League’s activities in the event of a crisis, especially in the facilitation of communications, discussed a French suggestion that the League should instal a wireless station. S. AFRICAN NATIVES CAPE TOWN, Dec. 2. Bishops of the Anglican Church issued a statement condemning Mr. Hertzog’s native bills, as aimed at upholding white civilisation at the expense of the native peoples, inspired by white fear of the black man, and as inconsistent with the principles which might govern legislation affecting the Native races. WAR RAVAGES REPAIRED. PARIS, December 2. Since ■■ the Armistice 541,000 buildings have been restored in the French devastated area, and 26,583 miles of roads and 1,181 miles of railroads have been reconstructed. Five million acres of land have been put again under cultivation. Nevertheless five years will yet be required to completely wipe out the ravages of the war. -The work of restoration has cost ‘so far seventy milliards of francs. MEAT INDUSTRY. ’ .LONDON, December 1. • The '“Daily ;Mail” • states that Armour’s, Swifts, and Vestys have concluded* a tentative agreement -whereby Itajy fakes seventy per cent, of the British chilled beef trade, leaving the remaining thirty.: for five smaller, companies. The latter will consider the- offer, to-morrow. k . LONDON, Dec. 2. ...Sir Philip Proctor s/ys a Chicago report that under the terms of the meal, war settlement, Vestey'o are goi'n K out of the packing business is a ridiculous, falsehood... Vestey’s' position in Australia goes on as usual.