BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 19 November 1923, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION —COI’IKIGUT SUMMARY OVERNIGHT NEWS SYDNEY, November 18. Three eases of anthrax are reported at Wollongong, due to the use of infected shaving brushes. ADELAIDE, Nov. 17. The South Australian Drink Bill for the past year was £2,500,000. Convictions for drunkenness totalled 3764. The figures for the pervious year were £2,431,000 and 3443 respectively. The average consumption of liquor is less, and the increase in the bid is due to increased charges. LONDON, November 17. The Madrid correspondent, of the “Daily Express” says that an English woman and her daughter were awakened during the night by an intruder in their residence near Villaread, tn the province of Aastelbos. He declared he loved the daughter and wished to marry her. The girl guessing the intruder wan merely a burglar seized a golf chib anti attacked the man. fiercely. The intruder snatched another club from the mother’s hand, with which he defended himself. The mother fled and returned armed with a revolver. In the meantime the daughter had been felled by a blow. The intruder next attacked the mother, but fled at the first shot she fired. The man was afterwards captured by gendarmes. The woman’s heroism was highly praised. LONDON, November 16. General Smuts has sailed for South Africa. , . Looking a little greyer than when he was last in this country, in 1921 (wrote “An African” in the “Daily Mail’.). General Jan Christiaan Smuts,, a world statesman of great influence,, though his life is lived in the distant Dominion of South Africa, arrived in London for the Imperial Conference, at which he is destined to be a dominating figure. He would be a dominating figure anywhere, for he is a man of vast knowledge of affairs, of exceptional clarity of vision, mentally as well as: physically fearless, ami a speaker of a most admirable lucidity. He is perhaps the' most perfect combination of scholar and man of action before th* public today. He has a glowing faith in the future of the British Empire, against which he fought so successfully with his lifelong friend General Botha, in lhe Boot War. and for which he fought with equal distinction against Germany. But the British Empire of his idolatry is one in which its component States are welded together in a partnership as equals, and it is a first principle of his Imperial creed that'no decisions on European affairs which may affect the interests of the Dominions shall be made without previous consultation with the Prime Ministers of those “sell-standing” States. SYDNEY. Nov. IS. Following the defeat of the Government by one vote, a party split occurred. Several members, contending that they were badly led. are agitating for a change of leadership. They state that had Sir George Fuller used a litf”? tact the crisis would not ha”e occurred. Sections of the Press assert that Sir George Fuller should tender his resignation, rather than submit to intern:,*'t out reverses and rebuffs from the Country Party. Political opinion is hardening in

the direction that a way out will be found on Tuesday by tne Government again suomitting me Local Government estimates, giving satisfactory assurances respecting tne farmers’ appraisements of tne Valuer-General. CHRISTIANIA. November 16. A lock-out in the pi per industry commenced to-day. Attempts by an official mediator v. settle the conflict failed, and 25,000 employees were involved. MELBOURNE, November 1(1. At the Medical Congress, Dr. I’urdv strongly condemned overtime as a cause ol nervous troubles. So fruitful was it in this direction that it shook! only be engaged in an emergency. SYDNEY, November 17. The Labour Council has issued an ultimatum to the Bread Carters’ I’nii■■ declaring hostility to the latter’s actum in co-operating with the employers in the dispute over the hours of employment. The Council threatens to form a militant sub-branch of the Union i.. cater for carters considered to be working in the interests of the working class, the latter to wear distinguishing badges when delivering bread. LONDON, November 16. George Jggulden, detained by the police in connection with the taxi can murder, was remanded. He was charged with the murder of Ethel Howard The police gave evidence that Igguiden, upon arrival at the Police Station made a voluntary signed statement, filter washing his. blood-stained han !-. 'The statement would be produced later. [A cable message published on Saturday said: A taxi-cab murder in London was revealed last night, wlie.i a man drove to the Fulham Police Station and made a statement, whereupon the police found a woman insicu. the taxi with her throat cut and a razor lying near the body. The woman’s name is Ethel Howard. She is also known as Ethel Ireland. She is ;1 widow with two children-—a girl ot eight and a boy of five. She lived at Shepherd’s Bush. One report states that .she came from New Zealand tv.o years ago. Another report states that she came from Australia, where he. husband died. She was a handsome woman, aged 30. The man who been detained is George Iggulden. aged 25, who has had no fixed employment since he was demobliscd. 'Die couple were to have been married at a registry office to-day. They met yesterday ami had tea in the neighbourhood of Pice., dilly. Afterwards they drove off in a taxi-cab.] LAUSANNE. Not. 16 The- jury voted 5 to I in favour ol the acquittal of Conradi and Polinninc. who were discharged. LONDON. Noveiub i 17. 'file Lausanne correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says the final scenes of the Conradi trial were most impresThe president, in announcing the acquittal, ordered Conradi and Polinnine to jointly pay the costs of the

trial, amt the confiscation of the weapon with which Vorowsky was shot. Ihe public loudly cheered. while Conrath s mother am! wife, overcome by emotion, burst into tears. (M. Vorow-kv, one of the Soviet delegates, was snot while at dinner al the Hotel Cecil, Lausanne, during the Near East Conference. A long typewritten document, headed: “Aly Confession.'’ was found on Conradi. It gave as reasons for the assassination the torture and murder by the Bolshevists of Conradi’s father, uncle, ami other relations, and his desire to rid the world of a Bolshevist. It declared that he intended to assassinate M. Tchitchorin at the last Lausanne conference but he did not find an opportunity. Then he decided to kill Al. \ orowsky. and for this purpose was obliged to follow him from Itttly. A Russian officer, writing in the "Daily Mail” said: “I happen to be very well acquainted and closely connected with Morris Conradi, who is 28, of very smart appearance and good looks. «tnd popular with all who know him. He was a captain in the Russian Imperial and Volunteer Army. His father and uncle, who were born in Russia, owned one of the biggest chocolate factories tn the Narvekaya suburb of Petrograd. AVhen the Bolshevists came into power they selected his father and uncle as victims of their Red Terror solely on the grounds of their being factory owners.”) AIELBOURNE, November 18. Following an announcement that fo<.. shillings daily would bo deducted, from their pay, to provide tor mess allowance. the special constables held it mass meeting and decided to semi a. ‘t putation to the Commander-in-Chief, ami ask to have the order cancelled, failing this they would resign. After the interview. Commander AlcCay announced that a settlement had been effected and the cause of dissntisfactioii removed.