NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16186, 24 July 1923, Page 4

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

.HARDING TO REVIEW FLEET

WASHINGTON, diinci B.—President Harding will 'review tho United States battle: fleet off Seattle on July 27, : " 1 A BLOODLESS DUET.. POLISH ARMY CHIEF. LONDON, July ■ s.—Marshal PilswL ski, head of the .Polish Army, and General Szcptyski, Polish Minister for War, fought a, bloodless duel, says a. Warsaw •correspondent. The quarrel arose over tho marshal's criticism of tho latter as Minister. RACE IN WHEELED CHAIRS. PARIS, May 24.—Tho Grand Prix foil French disabled ■ soldiers will! lio run outside Paris next Sunday. It is reserved to soldiers whose only means of locomotion is by' a self-propelled wheeled chair. Entries are to Ikj divided into four groups according to the extent! of disr ability. Tho Grand Prix is a largo silver figure of a bird witty browen wings, held in the. hands of a young girl. WAR ON CHURCH ROUSES FRENCH. PARIS, May 12.—-Representatives of every religion' known in Franco; have joined - ; in an appeal to public of',the world against '"persecution or religion in Russia and .the., arrest and execution of religious .authorities." "The Soviet , Government,' says the department of commerce, is trying to •uproot religion from tho souls, of the people as useless and dangerous,' and is employing every.means to arrive'at. tho result, 'including . confiscation ' of, property, profanation of churches and synagogues, parodies on religious ceremonies, official atheistic-schools and prison, torture] 1 and death." '.--, MONTREAL, AFFECTED. MONTREAL, May 12.—That the influence of Sovietism luisf pentrated to Montreal and (has revealed itself in the persecution . of. tho. Russian .church Here, was disclosed by. Bishop Farthing in the; course of an interview. He declared that'.tho great majority of-'the Russian community here /had withdrawn from- the church,' while the Soviet element • had. made a determined effort- to getipossessibn" of tho j church .buildinp; for purposes other than worship.*: - the Christians of Montreal como to their aid,/their church will bo lost to them," tho*. bishop said. IGNORES SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

LONDON, May 12.—The Presbyterian Church of England, which is in session at Manchester, agreed .with the Archbishop of York that Socialist "Sunday schools, so far as they exist at present, are not worth tho powder and shot now being spent upon thejn. The Presbyterian Church has come to tho conclusion that those Socialist or Oorrimunist Sunday schools, which, more or less, inculcate blasphemous and athe'istic teaching, are not flourishing; at all.