NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 June 1926, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT. LONDON, June 13. The Daily Express’ San Remo correspondent says that a r.ich coffin containing the remains of the former Turkish Sultan Mehmed, . has been seized for debt by the undertakers, who refuse to give it up till the' charges have been paid. Other creditors are besieging the late Sultan’s villa 1 , which they demand should be sold. ATHENS, June 13. Brigands attacked a motor car and carried off £40,000 belonging to the National' Bank. They killed) three gendarmes, a clerk and two servants of the bank. • ROME, June 13. The official Fascist Press has seized upon the Spanish and Brazilian attitude at Geneva as the ground for a renewed discussion of the break-up of the League. The Tribune says the League will either go to pieces much sooner than is expected, or will finish by bringing about the next world war. PRAGUE, June 13. Unprecedented ' scenes marked the application of the closure, after a 30 hours’ sitting, of the Chamber of Deputies in connection with, the- Corn ‘Bill. The Communists wrecked 1 the furniture and! fought with the police, who used revolvers in the streets. Seventy people were injured, of ■whom G 1 were police.