WORLD'S NEWS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11401, 21 March 1930, Page 6

WORLD'S NEWS

WILL THEY AGREEP FRANCE AND ITALY. (Received 10.5 a. ,m) United Press Assn—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON' March 20. The whole of the present restricted activities of the Disarmament Cbnierence will be directed to induce France and Italy to reach an agreement by the promotion of negotiations between themselves. This is at present the chife pre-oc-cupation of Mr Ramsay MacDonald, who will confer with Signor Grand,! with that object a.t the House of Commons this evening, following last night’s conversations with M. Briand, after learning that the latter was going to Paris this morning. The Scrapping Committee is still perseveringly sitting. TAKES ANOTHER’S LIFE. (Received 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, March 20. “When a person takes another’s life, society should not be. burdened with keeping him in circumstance’s better than many honest people live in. Therefore it is only right the State should take his life, and have done with it,” was the opinion Lord Darling expressed to the Select Committee on capital punishment. “The execution of thei innocent is impossible in face of the present intelligent adfmnistration of our murder laws, but many vanity persons escaped’ He agreed that- it was unpleasant to try women for any offence, but he could not, much as he wished, give any reason why they should not be executed equally as men. At the close of a lengthy interrogation Lord Darling was asked what in his opinion was the most severe, punishment ajKirt from hanging. He replied: “I should sav cross-examina-tion.” CHINESE UNREST. (Received 10.10 a.m.! SHANGHAI, March 20. The Government at Nanking is preparing to. resist the advance of the allied Northern and North-West-ern armies under Yenhsishan, who announces that to-morrow will see the commencement of definite troop activities against- Kuoniintang. A Taiyuan message states that' the Kuominchun army, under Fengyuhsiang. is concentrating on Chengchow, where Feng is making his headquarters, whilst Yen proceeds to Peiping to establish! a provisional military Government. This definite move by Yen is causing a number of smaller generals to offer assistance to overthrow Chiangkaishek. The Nanking Government i s particularly quiet regarding its intentions though considerable troop movement is noticeable.

IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY AT ST. PETER’S. ROME.

VATICAN CITY, March! 19. Huge crowds a.t St. Peter’s attended the mass of expiation offered by the Pope at the Apostle’s tomb fo'r the profanation of the church and offences against the majesty of God in Russia,

As the mass started, the bells of every church in Italy tolled a protest to the Soviet. Pope Pius .was borne to the cathedra I on a raised chair carried bv six men, preceded by clergy and" officials ot the college of cardinals and his arrival was announced by blasts on silver trumpets. After the mass, there was the exposition of -sacred relies, including pieces of the. True Cross, the veil of St. Veronic and the. spent with which the side of Christ was pierced. Hundreds of Russian -exiles thronged, to Notre Dame in Paris when Cardinal Verdier .sang a high mass of expiation similar to that in Rome.