MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[PEE PBEBB AHSOCIATIjN —POPTBIOIIT.]

MILLERAND’S OPPONENTS. PARIS, Sept. 2*\ Some opposition to M. Millerand comes from the-left. Many politicians have decided to oppose a new political conception with which M. Millerand is identified, whereby the Elysee is alleged to dictate v personal politics to the French Government.

SENSATIONAL TRIAL. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. ,23

Mrs Bamberger, after a sensational trial at Old Bailey, was sentenced to nine months fqr perjury. Bamberger, a pretty y.ouug Woman, told an extraordinary series of lies in the divorce court. Women crowded Old Bailey daily. There were numerous emotional scenes .including an hysterical outburst by the prisoner, The evidence disclosed many unsavory details of Wpsf End life.

FRENCH POLITICS.. ‘’Received this da.v at 9.20 a.m.*

PARIS, Sept. 23,

M. Millerand’s sweeping majority at the first ballot decided the supporters of Bourgeoise and PerCt to give their votes to Millerand at to-day’s election at Versailles, though certain Radjcais including Dpuniargqne, signified their intention of abstaining from voting, as a protest agajngt M.. Millerand’s new political conception. It js |ikply M, Briand will become Premier.

STORY OF LOST CHILDREN

(United Service Telegrams)

(Received This Day at 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 23

A poignant story of the Russian revolution is told by the American Red Cross. Hundreds of devoted parents in Moscow and Petrograd in the spring of 1918 sent their children for safety to the Urals, but found it impossible to continue sending remittances to fhe supervisor. A§ the qqrsps apd teachers gradually |oft their charges, the children were abandoned, a pel many ■ lived naked in the woods on roots and berries, unattended and unprotected. Tile American Red Cross in Siberia removed eight hundred who have now arrived in Enropc. The Society is searching for the parents, the fate of whom in most cases is unknown. Others are’scattered and have long despaired of again seeing their children.

ITALIAN TROUBLES

LONDON, Sept. 23

Reports from Turin state that riot-» ing is general. There were four killed and twenty wounded in a fight over a seized factories. A referendum of strikers in Turin and Savoy decided to reject the occupation of factories.

REPI4 T(j MR THEODORE. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 23

The Philips delegation has addressed a statement to Queensland electors refuting Mr Theodore's utte,n\neos since his return to Queensland. The delegation declares it strictly adhered to the objects of the mission of supporting the petition to the King on the subject yp= pudiatory legislation aijd requesting the appointment of a Governor. The memhers scrupulously avoided interviews with financiers. The statement adds that the failure of Mr Theodore's mission was entirely due to the fact that the Queensland Government’s confiscatory repmliatqry legislation was well known in London financial circles before the delegation arrived ,

AFRICAN UNION. CAPETOWN, Sept. 22. A Congress of over five hundred delegates of South African Nationalists opened at Bloemfontein to consider the question of a reunion of parties. The speakers urged that unless they stood together, Bolshevism would sweep over the land.