BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association. 1

MR LLOYD GEORGE INDIGNANT. (Received this day at 9.30 a.rn.) LONDON, December 13. Mr Lloyd George, speaking at Leeds, indignantly denied he had started a land campaign for the purpose of regaining office. He took up the work because he desired to spend the rest oi his life in the service of the people from which he sprung. The Liberal Party was not an invalid stalled with past glories, hut a great organisation enpabit: of shattering the canker of the land ii'/niupoly which created the slums, whose pestilential pits poisoned thousands yearly.

HUY EMPIRE GOODS. AND KEEP MONEY IN THE FAMILY. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 13. The “ Daily Mail ” says Sir George Elliott’s advice to New Zealanders to buy British goods provides an additional argument for Britishers buying Imperial products. If they insisted on New Zealand butter instead of foreign, New Zealand farming would he stimulated and a wider field opened to migrants. who eould not go to a better country than New Zealand, whoso romantic scenery was destined to become the future Britishers' holiday centre, equalling the popularity of Switzerland. To-day the Dominions appreciate the present trivial preferences as a sign that the preference movement is progressing. The advantages of inter-im-perial trade were shown by the fact that Australia and New Zealand recently bought more British cotton goods than China. Imperial trade keeps money in the family, besides strengthening communities in the hour of danger who gave most valiant and effective help on the battlefield : it also provides compensation for the shrinking of the markets of Europe and Asia.

AUSTRIAN MONARCHIST MOVEMENT. ["Sydney Sun” Cables.] (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON. Dec. LI. The “ Westminster Gazette’s ” Vienna correspondent says the newspapers are publishing stories of an impending monarchist, coup d’etat. The police are searching the trains on the Hungarian frontier and are also examining all hoys from ten to 13 years to prevent a reported visit of the youthful ex-Crown I’rinec Otto, hut it is believed the rumours are merely a red herring drawn across the trail of Archduke Albrecht who is the real loader of tho Royalists. If the movement eventuated, Austria would he divided, Archduke Albrecht becoming King of Hungary, taking Vienna, and the Bavarian Crown Prince Rupprecht annexing Upper Austria and the Salgburg portion of Tyrol, while Mussolini, who is reported to have sanctioned the scheme, would seize the remainder of Tyrol oil liehalf of Italy.

A DETERMINED DEPUTATION. LONDON. December 13. Four thousand unemployed minors, accompanied by many women, invaded Lanchestcr. County Durham, to protest to the Board of Guardians against the resolution to abolish relief to the able-bodied. The deputation told the hoard that the demonstrators would not permit the Guardians to leave I ill they got satisfaction. They were destitute to the point of desperation. The board decided to gram iniimidiate relief. The Chairman previously told the Board that apart from the loan of forty-three thousand they were overdrawn 'to the extent of i bin v nine thousand. QUACK OPTICIAN'S. (Received this day nt 10.0 a.m.) LONDON. Dee. 13. Mr Neville Clmiiihurlain, acting on the report of eye surgeons that quack oculists were ruining the nation's eyesight. i.s introducing a Dill for the registration of opticians, imposing a fino of £SO sterling, or six months’ imprisonment on | arsons who are practising optometry without a license. RECREATION FOE MEMBERS. (Received this day nt 10.2.3 a.m.) ■ LONDON. Dec. 13. Plans are being discussed for providing howling greens and hard tennis courts alongside Parliament, for tho use of members who remain within call of the division lie'll. NOVELIST’S ESTATE. LONDON. Dec. 13. The novel wt. \Y. F. Norris, left £I9OO. Professor l.ofroy left £12(18. PERSIAN CONSTITUTION. TEHERAN. Dec. 14. Tlie Constituent Assembly unanimously voted to amend (lie constitution whereby Rezakhan Pehlevi was apnoinLod- King ot Persia. Rule remains with the Pehlevi Dynasty, the eldest son becoming Crown Prince. FRENCH POSITION. PARIS. Dec. It. The "Maiin” gives prominoine tc an anonymous article calling tor the formation of a. committee of public safety to steer France through the present crisis. II doclros the minute for sacred union lias arrived and the countrv has had enough of polities as France is in danger.

A NEW KLYTXG BOAT. LONDON'. Dec. 11. The Air Force’s new giant thousand horse power living boat built of stainless steel measuring thirty yards across tin* wings was launched and ascended at l.ytham, whence it Hew to Portsmouth. CHATHAM DOCKYARD. LONDON. Dec. It. The ‘-Sunday Express” understands that the historic Chatham Dockvnrd is to he closed as part of the Admiralty’s large economics forecasted in the ( millions. Chatham may be used as an Air Force station. Spanish kx-pukmtki: dead. j MADRID. Dec. 14. Obituary—Ex-Premier Alanrn.