BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1927, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association y

.SUBMARINES FOIL AUSTRALIA LONDON, January 29.

3be new submarines Oxley and Otway, which arc attached to Portsmouth during their trials, will be going to Australia during August or September. SAFETY OF ST. PAUL’S. LONDON. January 20. Contractors have reported 'reassuringly on the safety of St. Paul's Cathedral. Dean Inge says that as a result of a grouting, it will be stronger than when originally built. BRITISH GROCKRS’ EXHIBITION. LONDON, January 2!). The Empire .Marketing Board has provided a prominent pavilion for the -Midland Grocers’ ten days’ exhibition at Birmingham, including the latter being staged by the Dairy'Board. Mr Drew lectured to a gathering of grocers on New Zealand dairy methods. -MORE MIGRANTS. LONDON, January 29.

3he 3’amanta carries 2(15 assisted immigrants t> New Zealand, including 30 domestics.

MCSSOf. INI INTERVIEWED. PARIS .Jan. 29. Two newspaper in 3'urin were seized because they reprinted an interview with Mussolini published in London. Tfc contained an interview for English readers only, and was not meant for Home consumption. AIRMAN DROWNED. GIBE A T/PAR, Jan. 29. A seaplane attached to the aircraft Harrier Furious stalled and crashed into the sea. Naval Lieutenant J. 3‘. Campbell was drowned. GERMAN CABINET. BERLIN. Jan. 29. Hindenburg took an unusual step in restoring Cabinet. The appointment of Doctor Graef fas Minister of Justice was owing to the Centro Party’s strong rcresontation. Several members including WTrth. told Marx that reactionaries like Ilergt and 'Graef could not possess their confidence. It is recalled that Graef when tho vicepresident of the Reichstag refused to bo introduced to President Ebert. Marx is reshuffling tho seats. GALE SUBSIDES. LONDON, Jan.. 29. The great gale subsided to-day after a very wild night throughout the country. The death roll totals twenty, while, three hundred were injured. Telephone and telegraph lines (are interrupted in many parts and trains delayed. CRIME OF VENGEANCE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) BERLIN. Jan. 29. A terrible crime of vengeance is reported from Tvovno. A brother of General Anton Smeeton, the new President of Lithuania land his family, were found murdered, the residence robbed and burned. It is stated the outrage was perpetrated by the Communists as vengeance against the President who condemned five Communists to death a few weeks ago.

DUPING WO.M KN. LONDON, January 30. Charged with victimizing women throughout the country and allegedly confessing to four bigamous marriages, Stanley Roberts, aged 45 years, appeared at West London. 3be prosecutor said lie was not proceeding at present with the charges of bigamy. Roberts’ wife was undoubtedly alive in New Zealand, blit Roberts declared she left him three months alter bis marriage and was since dead. It is alleged that Roberts told Mrs Smith, residing at Hull, he was heir to £35,000. After (lie marriage ceremony lie absconded with £BBS. He victimized Mrs Smith’s two sisters of £6OO, as bead of Saradine Co. He also imposed on Mrs Warren, living at Southend, securing £3OO. He courted two girls in Bristol and defrauded their relatives of £320. Roberts made a statement detailing the amounts received from various dupes, relating bis meeting with two women alternately on the same clays at Soutfiend whom he robbed of £IBO. The hearing was adjourned.

AMERICAN NAVY. (Received this day at 8 a.m.)

WASHINGTON, January 29

Debating tiie Naval Bill in the Senate, Senator Wills opposed an appropriation to build three additional scout cruisers, declaring there was no danger of war with the British Empire. 11l colloquy with Senator Hale, who urged the appropriation, -Mr Wills said Male knew if there were to he war with Britain the United States would win “ through hostages we have at our very door and that the United States would invade Canada, annexing it immediately.”

“ r decline to be alarmed about this nightmare of the Navy,” Wills declared Senator Robinson interest in what Wills said about invading Canada and carrying out the same analogy il the United States were at war with Japan, said the latter would independenily seize the Philippines and Hawaii, thus menacing the Panama Canal. A DENIAL.. .MOSCOW', January 30. A semi-official news agency denies the reported concentration of Soviet tioops on the western and eastern frontiers. RICHARDSON’S OFFER. LONDON, January 30. Lancashire League Club, lineup, annoimcecl A. »T. Richardson lias contracted to join the duh in September, but the contract was cancelled by mutual consent two days later, as Richardson was anxious to tour New Zealand with the South Australians. He joins Bacup in 1928. at a fee of £6OO.