BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16817, 12 May 1919, Page 7

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

SEAPLANH AT SEA. ! Auitralian apd N.Z. CaWa Assn. , NEW YORK, May 9.. > The missing naval plane descended in the sea off the, Massachusettes coast. , The airmen wererescued. ' MORE PAY FOR NAVY. Received 5.5 ,p.m., May 11. sj LONDON, May, 9. The Admiralty lias increased the pay trad 1 pensions of potjtjy igfficersji jnorw commissioned officers and men of the • Royal Navy and Royal Marines, bring- - ing tdiiet p,asr «ip to the s i Navy's stjaaxdaa'd- The* increase) will ■ cost £ a,839,000 annually, making q, i total cost of £5,447,000 annually, which " I will eventually he £6,148,000. ! FINNISH INDEPENDENCE. RECOGNISED BY GREAT BRITAIN, Ml' Hcvvmswoi'tli, Under-Secretary for 3 Foreign Affairs, announced in the 'Com--7 mons that the Government has recognised the infciF-petndence of Finland and 'the de facto Finnisih Government. SENATOR HUMBERT ACQUITTED. I PARIS, May 9. ■ Ex-Senator Humbert has been ac--3 emitted on a charge of traffinkin.r with the enemy in connection with his purchase of the newspaper "Le Journal" in 1915. He acquired a controlling interest in that paper with money supplied bv Lenoir, who was arrested on a charge of having obtained funds from Germany. It was alleged that Hum- * hert accepted over £200,000 from 8010 ' Pasha to pay out to Lenoir. The latter was convicted and sentenced to death.