BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18547, 6 May 1922, Page 9

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Ptmb Am Delation — By Telegraph—Copyright ■ LONDON, May 4. (Received May 5, at 6.5 p;tn.) At the sale of the late Baroness Bur-dett-Coutts's pictures, Hoppner’a portrait of the Younger Pitt, painted in 1805,' fetched 7000 guineas. Another 'Hopprier portrait realised 1800. guineas. Abbott’s portrait of Lord Nelson fetched 1100 guineas, and Raeburn’s portrait of Sir Walter Scott fetched 9200 guineas.— A. and N.Z. Cable. • MADRID, May 4. (Received May 5, at 8.30 p'.tti.') Apartments are • being prepared at the Prado Palace for Zita, ex-Empress of Austria, whose stay will be for an unlimited period.—A. and N.Z. Cable. WASHINGTON, May 4. : (Received, May 5, at 8,30; p.m,),.. The War Department.has ordered.a delay in the sailing of. portion of the American troops on the Rhine until June 17. Senator Borah, in a speech ih the Senate, urging the deportation, of General Semenoff, reiterated the charges made in the recent hearings before the courts.. He also charged Mr Boris Bakhmeteff, the Ambassador appointed by the Kerensky Government, with breaking faith with the American Government bv investing .for, his personal use ‘.part .of the 187,000,000 dollars loaned to him by the American Treasury. _ , - Mr Mellon, appearing before the House Banking Committee, urged an ? extension for another vear of the War Finance Corporation, which makes loans, to farmers. He declared that the financial 'position was rapidly improving and was, well on the way to normal conditions, .especially regarding agriculture and industry.—A. and N.Z. Cable. • OTTAWA, May 4. (Received May 5, at BI3D p.Trt.) The police arrested 300. members of the Longshoremen’s Union and charged them with conspiracy and killing a constable during an attack on- strike-breakers,—A. and- N.Z: Cable. ...