MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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(Receiver w>is day at 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, July 29,

The .Chamber’s Finance Committee refused to accept the Government Bill granting credit to Germany in order to obtain coa). The first report of tlie French Pojisli mission does not conceal the fact that it is very difficult to negotiate with Pilsudski, The “Matin” says lie is . averse t,o .Allied and foreign officers piaying an effective role in the Polish Aipiy, Tlie report of tlie French officers’ mission appointed to investigate the report that Germans had established long range guns in a forest east of Strassburg, discovered battery guns ill the neighbourhood of Ofienburg. The burgomaster contended they were Hungarian abandoned guns as a security for cattle.

AN INDIAN ARMY. (Received this day. at 9.30 atm.) 5 DELHI, July 29.

Introducing the Auxiliary Force Bill for voluntary training of Europeans in India, the Indian Government announced in response to those who wish to utilise the enormous man power of India, that they ave decided to constitute an Indian territorial force on the model of the old militia of England, men to be trained for short periods for successive years. It was hoped, after intensive military training that the force would take its place side by side with regular Indian Army in time o f war, though it was not suggested that the force would he used overseas.

WOOL SALES. LONDON, July 29. At Liverpool wool sales, twenty-th - eo thousand bales of Australian, and ' tyfive hundred New Zealand were, offered agcl one hundred sold at late London j rates. DRINK STATISTICS. (Receved this day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 39. Convictions for drunkenness in 1919 in England and Wales were 67,848, compared with 29,075 for the previous year. A Blue Book attributes the increase partly to more policemen being available on street duty, longer drinking hours, stronger liquor, more money and less self-control. AMUNDSEN ROUNDS THE POLE. NOME, July 28. Amundsen, the Scandinavian explorer, has arrived hem in a tug. He reports his expedition is woll at Sledge Island, aboard the Maude. ; NEW YORK, July 28. i The Associated Press says that Amunsen’s arrival at Nome completes the first circumnavigation of the globe in Arctic waters. SUPPLY OF RADIUM. (Received this dav at 12.25 n.m) NEW YORK, July 29. The world’s supply of radium has increased at an hitherto unequalled rate. Seventeen new grains, worth half a million sterling, has been tested in United States already this year.