MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

lily Electric Telegraph—Copyright) A PROMISED FLUTTER. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, May 12. The Financial News says Mr Watt will cause a flutter in the official dovecot. Australia expects to get a good lump of the German indemnity in May, 1921. Moreover Australia is determined not to do business with Germany. That is the kind of talk needful when German officials are frittering away milliaids of money, rather than meet their liabilities to the Allies. AVe mean, however, that it will not secure an indemnity. AN ICEBREAKER. (Received this day at 8 a.in.) LONDON, May 12. The. British icebreaker, Sviatogor, is •hurriedly, preparing at Bergen to rescue the Snlovoi, which is drifting westwards in Kara Sea. The Sviatogor lias recently been breaking up a boom protecting the harbour at Scapa Flow. Each hurdle weighed eighty tons. The Sviatogor burled herself against the barrier for two months, until it was demolished. The crew of the Snlovoi abandoned the effort to reach land, awaiting their expected rescue before the ice meets, other wise their position will be desperate. MORE AVAR THREATS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) ROME, May 12.

Hungary lias started concentrating troops along the Jugo-Slav frontier, and has recalled all officers tq the colours.

(Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 12. Owing to the absence of interested persons, the representatives have returned after an exhaustive tour in Russia. They declare three hundred thousand died in Petrograd from typhus last winter. Most of the public buildings were converted into hospitals. Seven hundred thousand are reduced to eating herbs and grass. The price o’ food is beyond imagination. ITALIAN CABINET RESIGNS. ROME, May 12. Signor Nitti has resigned in consequence of his defeat, by 192 to 112, during a debate oil the internal policy, which tho Catholics supported, but the Socialists regarded as too weak.