“STOP PRESS” NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16583, 16 November 1921, Page 12

“STOP PRESS” NEWS.

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AN INDIGNANT AUDIENCE. LONDON, November 15. ( There*were sensational incidents at I a, London theatre when a Kitchener ' Him was produced privately. The play attempts to show that Kitchener was betrayed by /a young British Staff Officer, t who was in love with the German widow of another British officer, who had been killed in the war. The woman supposedly induced him to disclose the date and hour of Kit.-f chener’s departure from England. Miss Kitchener, a sister of Lord Kitchener, rose in indignation, and said “I protest against a, British office’* being shown succumbing to a spy. Politicians may betray their country, but not British officers.” General G. M. MacDonagh rose up iu another part of the theatre and similarly protested. A mdluber of the House of Commons. who is an exofficer, also objected to the film. The audience received the pkiy indignantly, and tiie film is being drastically . amended. ■\ . HORO WHENU A RACKS. ‘4 MAIDEN HANDICAP -.Rugby 1, \ Cochineal 2, Panache 3. Scratched: j Minemai, * Encounter Boy, Opiate, | Princess Fram. Lady Faa. Mailu. llellonice, Muraahi, Maniapoto gelding. ! Prominent and Hallucination. Won j 4 by a head! Time—lmin lGseo |, ■ —* f . { MANSLAOGHTEE CHAKGE. ‘ VEKDICT OF NOT GUILTY. In the case of Donald Scott, charged with manslaughter. the Jury, after about half an hour’s retirement, brought in a verdict of not guilty. The foreman: said the jury considered . the telephone box* by the Armagh ? Street bridge a contributing factor in Y the accident. CHARGE OF MURDER. GISBORNE, November 10. Two brothers named Topi were arrested this morning at Marauui pa and charged with the murder of Zambukka at Motu River. They will be taken to Opotiki by lauuchh to . A night. $ HOROWHENUA. RACES. 3 LEVIN HANDICAP. ROSE OF ATHENS ... I \ KIKINI 2 MELTING MOMENTS . . 3 ACCIDENTAL DEATH. At the inquest touching the death of John Loe, forty-four years of age, who died as the result of gunshot injuries, the Coroner returned a verdict that death had been accidental. The accident disclosed the necessity of unloading all firearms which had been used before laying them aside. DISARMAMENT. OPINION IN J^APAN. TOKTO. November 15. With few exceptions Press publicists are gratified at Mr Hughes’s proposals for reducing armaments. ViceAdmiral Funakoshi, Commandant of j the Yokohama arsenal, says that the j naval holiday would be a disastrous j blow to Japan's dockyards. The di- j rector of the Mitsubishi dockyard, which holds the contracts for the 1 new warships, predicts a deathblow 1 to Japan’s steel industry. He added: '* It is impossible to imagine Japan ( ' accepting the proposals us they are i submitted." The president of the Hankers’ Association 9ays that it is a. splendid scheme excepting for the temporary blow which it will inflict on the shipbuilding and steel industries, but will create a general improvement in industrial conditions. The Foreign Office authorities state that the proposals are closely approximate to the instructions given j the Japanese delegates, and form a j very fair basis for negotiations. J i i i !