BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

' CABLE NEWS,

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BIG CLAIMS. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.in.) LONDON, Jan. 26. One hundred and seventy claims for compensation for malicious injury, involving £250,000, have been listed at the Tipperary sessions in May, relating to reprisals. 'ANQTHER ATTACK. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 26. T\Vo bombs were thrown at a police lorry from a doorway at Usher’s Island, Dublin. All fell behind. A volley was fired by a group of men without result. The police on the other side of the river fired a volley. Several men fell. It is reported that four dead or badly wounded were carried by civilians into the Labyrynth Courts. ULSTER UNIONISTS. (Received This Dnv at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 26

Representatives of the Ulster Unionist Council met in London and requested Sir Janies Craig to become the leader of the Party. Craig has accepted, subject to the unanimous approval of the full Council, which is meeting in Belfast on Friday. A geological action. “ THE TIMES ” SERVICE. (Received this day at 12.25 o.m) NEW YORK, January 26. Professor Lawson of California University writes in the Geological Bulletin that the coast range in the vicinity of; San Francisco, is moving slowly northwards, producing an enormous earth strain resulting in rebounds in one of which Mount Tamalpais rebounded 6.6 feet. CONSTANTINE’S PAY. “the times” service. ■(Received this day at 12.25 p.m) ATHENS, Jan 26. King Constantine’s pay has been doubled to four million drachmas a year. Moreover he is taking half n million for each year of exile. A CONFERENCE PLEDGE. PARIS, Jan 26. The Conference pledged the Allies not to recognise Constantine and not furnish him with financial or military assistance. REPARATION QUESTION. |

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(Received This Day at 12.20 p.m.'* PARIS, Jan 26. The reparation question will bo discussed to-day. It is estimated Germany has already paid the Allies over nine million gold marks, but the Allied advances to Germany, and the cost of armies of occupation namely 2,500 million gold marks in districts liberated from Germany, must' he deducted therefrom. Furthermore a paradoxical situation exists of the Allies having advanced 64fl million gold marks to Germany. Certain experts favour the simple solution of the finances of Austria by handing them over directly to the League of Nations.