NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 163, 25 June 1928, Page 6

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

Attempt to Swim Irish Channel: Miss Gleitz attempted to swim the County Down, to Port Patrick, Scotland, and abandoned the attempt after swimming 22 miles in six hours.

Canada's Trade: Canada’s favourable visible balance of trade decline! 14.8,000.000 dollars for the year ending May 31st. Imports increased 87,000,000 dollars, and exports decreased 61,000,000 dollars. P

Explosion in Dynamite Factory; A message received in London from Bruges states that a great explosion in a dynamite factory there killed seven and injured 30. A number of houses within a radius of a quarter of mile were unroofed.

German Politics: Herr Mueller failed to form a grand coalition owing to the insistence of the People’s party that the 10,000-ton cruiser must be built and that the Socialists shall not dicate taxation legislation.

World Baptist Conference: Seven hundred delegates, representing 60 nations with 12.000,000 commimicants, opened the World Bantist Alliance at Toronto, which will continue till June 29th. TTiis gathering celebrates tho three hundredth anniversary of John Bunyan’s birth.

Knowledge of Empire: The Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin in a message to the Ro.val Colonial Institute in connection with its jubilee, cites it as another example of Britain’s wav ■ f leaving to voluntary bodies such tasks ns disseminating knowledge of the Empire in which the institute had achieved a record of which it hdd every reason to be proud.