BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] THE EX-KAISER. LONDON, August 27. The " Daily Mail’s ” Pari s Correspondent states foe “ Petit Parisen ’’ Holland correspondent reports a number of German monarchists and wealthy industrialists have arrived at Doom and are plotting for the exKaiser’s early return to Germany. They maintain he is merely bound by bis word of honour not to leave Holland and if circumstances compelled the breaking of it, it would he entirely a matter for his own conscience.

POLICE STONED AT ST. HELEN'S. LONDON. Aug. 2G. Further mining disturbances have occurred at St. Helen’s in Lancashire where two thousand people gathered to demonstrate. They stoned the police. The police ignored the first volley. When it wq.s kept up the police charged with batons. The crowd was scattered, hut the stoning was resumed.

The police were then reinforced. They repeatedly charged and broke up the crowd whom mounted police then chased for two miles. A crowd, incited by women, attacked two newspaper men, and dangled them over a bridge, threatening them with a ducking. They also, seized a camera and smashed it. The newspapermen then rushed to u motor cycle ami escaped. DELEGATION TO RUSSIA. LONDON, Aug. 2G. A delegation of fourteen, comprising two members of the Miners’ Federation and several of the miners' wives, is proceeding to Russia, at the invitation of the Russian miners, who will cover the expenses of the visit. MOTOR. -SENSATIONS. RECORD AND TRAGEDY. PARIS, Aug. 2G. A motor ear race meeting at Boulogne opened disastrously. A famous Brooklands rider, Howey, an Australian, during the hill test, failed to take the second bend, and the ear dashed into the spectators. It killed one. and broke a gendarme’s leg, and cut off the leg of a spectator. Howey was killed instantly. Earlier in the day, Songrave, another competitor, established a remarkable feat in the history of road racing over six kilometres of billy ground. He maintained a staggering speed of 147 miles nil hour. In traversing the bill top. the machine left the ground, rushed through the air for 20yds., and came down with a bump, almost finging Seagrave out of the ear. He covered the distance in 85 3-5 seconds, which is n world’s record. He bad a flying start.

FISHING DISASTER. HALIFAX, Aug. 20. Messages from the Sable Island Government cruiser confirm the loss, with 22 of her crew of the fishing schooner Sadie Knickle, in a storm a fortnight ago, when two others met with disaster. The total loss is now 43 lives. SPANISH SITUATION. LONDON. Aug. 27. It is unknown, owing to the censorship. what is happening in Spain, following the Artillery incidents, no word regarding the political situation is allowed to be cabled at present. LEAGUE OF NATIONS. LONDON, Aug. 27. The Permanent Court of International Justice has answered a question submitted from the League of Nations Council for an advisory opinion. The question was as to whether the League's Labour Organisation was competent to propose legislation which, while protecting {he interests of the workers incidentally regulated the same work when done by empvoveis. The question arose from the 1923 convention prohibiting night work in bakeries. The Court said that the organisation was. not called upon to deal with the work of employers generally, which was not claimed by the Labour Office, but. only in so far a* work done by the employer was the same as that of the worker.

GIRLS COMING TO X.Z. LONDON. Aug. 27. Sir James and Lady Parr did not reveal their identity during their chat with the New Zealand migrants aboard the Ruapehu. Many of the domestic servants confided to Sir Jas. Parr that they were going out with their principal idea W as of finding husbands. They said they bad beard that there is a surplus of twentv-five thousand men in New ZeiVnnd, and they hoped to get some of them.