BRITISH & FOREIGN

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 31 December 1926, Page 7

BRITISH & FOREIGN

OVERNIGHT NEWS SUMMARY. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) BERLIN, December 29. The unemployed receiving relief in Germany have reached a total of 1,464,000. LONDON, December 30. The Berlin correspondent of the “Times” reports two German firms secured a contract for an electric underground railway for Moscow, costing ten million sterling. LONDON, December 29. The British Government has refused the Russian teachers and trade union delegates visas to attend the London Congress. MALTA., December 29. Sir Samuel Hoare arrived and halted for two hours en route to the Fontanarosa air port. Sir Sefton Brancker arrived at the desert post of Rutba. LONDON, December 29. It is learned that Australia has received £1,000,000 in reparations from Germany as a result of Mr Bruce’s and the Hon. J. G Latham’s negotiations with the British Treasury. NEW YORK, Dee. 29. A. Santiago message states that ten to fifteen are believed to have been killed in a train collision in a tunnel in Southern Chile. The wreckage burned so rapidly that passengers had no chance of escape. GUAYAQUIL Dec. 29. Reports from the Colombian frontier state the towns of Guachucal and Aldana have been destroyed by earthquake, an dthe town of Naranjito almost completely destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at 1,500,000 dollars. MADRID, December 29. The Government is sending aeroplanes to drop food and comforts for the passengers in the snowbound trains on the Madrid-Albaceti railway, where the snow is sft. deep and is still falling. The relief trains were forced to return. LONDON, December 29. Highly confidential lectures at the new Imperial Defence College in London, will begin on January 7, dealing with the broad outlines of Imperial strategy, army, navy, air force, and civil service. The Dominions and India will send five students. MADRID, December 30. A remarkable exhibition of painted legs and arms is being arranged in order to find a substitute for costly silk stockings and gloves. The aim is to discover a washable paint, and decide suitable designs. The organiser’s intentions are serious, and they announce they will not allow immodest designs. AV ASHINGTON, December 29.

Senator Borah, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in a formal statement to-day, said he was satisfied that as far as official reports showed the activities qf-the United States naval forces in Nicaragua were confined strictly to the protection of American life and property.

He stated: “I am in favour of withdrawing cur forces from Nicaragua, just as soon as it is ascertained the Americans are reasonably safe.”

LONDON, December 29. The Brussels correspondent of “The Times” says that during the German occupation of Belgium, the military courts exacted levies on a number of towns, to pay for damage allegedly done to German property by the crowds at the outbreak of the war.

A mixed tribunal has now ordered that Germany shall repay to Antwerp 1,000,000 francs with costs. COLOGNE!, Dec. 29.

Th a path worn by the sentries’ seven years patrol outside the Excelsior Hotel, the former general headquarters, is the only remaining sign of the British occupation of Cologne. The hotel was to-day reverted to its pre-war uses, fulfilling the notice displayed across the frontage after nearly eight years’ occupation: “This hotel is again free.” A specially invited company of Government, civic and other guests celebrated the occasion. The British taxpayer must defray the rent, compensation and renovation nf the hotel, and the adjoining premises, an appalling total which is fiercely disputed. LONDON, Dec. 29.

The laughing audiences at a Cardiff pantomime, applauding the vivacious humour of Miss Lynda Martell, dm not realise that there was tragedy behind the performance. She married Lord Lyveden a year ago, and received a message of his death, as she entered the theatre for the matinee. Although greatly distressed. Miss Martell performed her part without 4i, and repeated the success at night. ,ord Lyvedea had a remarkable career. He was successively actor, artilleryman, waiter in a New York eating-house, steward on an American coastal vessel, nurseryman who introduced a new tomato, army contractcor, caterer to a shipping company, purser, tourist agent, lieutenant in naval reserve, theatrical manager and variety artist. His father was 72 years old, when he married a pretty Hastings shop girl of eighteen.