BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

•***>- BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. ■> VALUABLE dogs. % (Received This Day at 1.5. p.m.i LONDON, February 3. The annual dog show at Islington emphasises the present boom in dog breeding. Americans are keen buyers of champions. The reserve price for • a Pekinese was £3,000 sterling. ‘ Puppies brought £oo and a young Saint Bernard £BOO.

against the press. (Received This Day at 1 5. p.m.| LONDON, February 3. Cambridge Union is adopting the role of a candid friend. At a recent meeting it carried a resolution by lObfi votes to 29, that the influence of the press is pernicious. MESOPOTAMIA MANDATE. "the times” service. , (Received This Pay at 1.5. p.nO LONDON, February 3. The draft of the British mandate over Mesopotamia which will be submitted for the League of Nations approval, is extraordinarily ambiguous and involved. The main provisions are no discrimination against foreign states, ons u in<' trade. In oil enterprises; all nations placed on the same footing as recards freedom, religion and education. Britain is made responsible for foreign relations defence and maintenance o the present frontiers.

A PECULIAR ACTION. ~W heuter’s telegrams. (Receiver!, this dav at 1.5 p.m.i LONDON, February 3. \t the inquest on the Welsh way disaster, the Traffic Controller deposed to finding the fireman of the express 'wandering in a field carryin two tablets. He was dazed and unable t 0 saY where he found them. Witness assumed that the firemen in jumping from the engine, took the table , permitting him to travel ,aud the ot e tablet from the slow train was flung his direction as the result of the collision. , FRENCH PRESS TALK ACTION (Received this day at 12.20 n.m) PARIS, Feb 3. “Le Temps” insisting on firm measures against Germany, suggests the Allies should immediately take possession of German customs in their respective zones on the left bank of the Rhine and establish a customs cordons, separating the occupied from t ie unoccupied territories. “Temps adds that German -professors talk and no propose to act. encounter with holsheviks. DELHI Feb 3. \n encounter between British and Bolsheviks took place at Naglobargdan. Twelve Bolsheviks were killed and seven captured. There were no British casualties.