BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Issue 170297, 16 August 1920, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

AMMUNITION" VOLCANO AT LUTON. Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Auairaiiau aii'i LONDON, Aug. 14. A terrific explosion occurred in a iactory at Luton, where ammunition was being broken -down. Over a million rounds oi : cartridges. wc-re destroyed. The explosions continued for three hours. No one was killed, but six were injured."

NOR FOLKS LOST ON GALLIPOLT.

KING! TO ERECT MEMORIAL.

Received 11.30 p.m., Aug. 15tli.

The King contemplates the erection of a memorial on Gallipoli to the lost, legion of Norfoiks, which mysteriously disappeared. The majority-of the men worked on the royal estates at Sandringham.

WARTIME WASTE OP MONEY. A report on the public accounts contains glaring examples of prodigious waste. It gives instances in connection with the erection of hut-met-s which verge on being scandalous. Much money spent in the Ministry of Information was paid without any attempt at securing Treasury approval. The Commissioners found that there was much unnecessary loss through remiss administration.. A sum of £700,000 was advanced to the Y.M.C.A.j of which £IOO,OOO was repaid. It was eventually decided that the advance should be treated as a War Office grant, in respect of such services as education. The Food Production Department made a loss of four millions on various schemes which, were over optimistically undertaken.

CROWN PRINCE FORESAW

DEFEAT.

PARIS, Aug. II

"Le Matin""' publishes a letter from the Crown Prince to the Kaiser of July, 1917, strongly urging peace. The Prince declared that the spirit of the German people was deplorable. "If peace does not come before the end of the year revolution will be imminent. It is no longer any question of victory but of the life of the German people, and our dynasty is in dauger. That would be a great misfortune, hue nothing compared with the danger threatening Germany.

BUBONIC PLAGUE IN PARIS. There have been four cases, one * fatal, of bubonic plague in the city. Precautions have been taken to pievet its spread.

PRINCE OF WALES'S INDIAN TOUR. NEW YORK, Aug. 15

The "New York Times" prints an article stating that advices have been received by the New York branch of a well-known London baiik, having uu-'port-ant financial interests in India, -t the effect "that the British Government has decided that it wofdd not be advisable, for" the Prince of Wales to visit India until conditions become more settled. ,

TREACHEROUS ARABS.

DELHI, Aug. 15.

While the Acting-General Officer at at Telafar was parleying -vvitli leading chiefs, some Arabs treacherously fired on his cavalry escort, killing Captain Carter, 11th Lancers, and sis Indian troopers. The cavalry escort returned the fire, killing eight Arabs, including the leading chief.

LAMBETH CONFERENCE.

BASES OF CHURCH UNION.

LONDON, August ]3

The Lambeth Conference suggested that the bases of Church union should be acceptance of'the Holy Scriptures, the Nicene Creed, baptism, Holy..Communion, and an acknowledged ministry.

The only means of providing the latter is an episcopate.

LONDON, August 14. Received 5.5 p.m., August 15.

The Australian Press Association interviewed Rev. F. B. Meyer, President of the National Council of Free Churches, who, commenting on the Lambeth Conference, said h e favoured the reunion of Churches, but he was afraid that the proposal to make the re-ordination of Free Church clergy obligatory would creat an insuperable difficulty". Ho cordially appreciated the proposal to make the episcopacy Honprelatica!. Dr. Poole, formerly of Australia and latterlv of America, is succeeding the Rev. F. B. Meyer in the pastorate of Christ Church, Westminster, in March. The Rev. Mever is touring Canada in 1921.

ACCIDENT TO THE POPE.

ROME, August 14.

The Pope slipped on a -waxed fioor in ■walking from liis bedroom to tlie library, slightly injuring his kne'e.

BOLSHEVIK SMUGGLERS

WITH RUSSIAN CROWN JEWELS

NEW YORK, August 13. .Evidence given in eouneciion with the deportation of' the Soviet Ambassador M. Martens showed that the Customs seized 131 diamonds addressed to a comrade ox Martens from a Swedish sai'or. Large quantities of jewels sunposed to "belong to the Royal family have been transported during the last six months.

There is a regular Bolshevik courier service between Sweden and New York. M. Martens denied complicity or knowledge of the affair.