BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 May 1921, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. SAVING COAL. LONDON, May 12 About one-third of the boilers supplying the power for London’s underground railways, have already been converted to oil burning, saving 2,240 tons of coal weekly. ITALIAN POLITICS. ROME, May 12. Signor Sforza has resigned, and willprobably become Ambassador at Paris. THYROID GLAND TREATMENT. LONDON, May 12. Alfred Wilson an ex-Australian of Independent means and well-known in Sydney, aged 70, recently went to Vienna and° received the thyroid gland treatment. He declared he was 20 years younger. Wilson thereupon engaged Albert Hall to lecture on the subject and many doctors were interested in the so-called rejuvenation.

Wilson was found dead in bed on the morning of the lecture. He had been complaining of indigestion due to a supper of haricot beans and tea. Fro fessor Steinbnch of Vienna promised th treatment would life effective for two to thirty years. Friends believe that Wilson died from excitement.

foreign troops leaving. PERSIA. DELHI, May 12. Persian advices state that Bolshev-ir troops are being withdrawn from the Minzal front simultaneously with thevacuation of the British troops there, which is proceeding rapidly. DR MANNIX HONOURED. LONDON, May 12. Three hundred English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh Catholic Archbishops, bishops and clergy, along with several Australians and South entertained Dr Mannix at a banquet at Cannon'Street Hotel, in London. The Bishop of Portsmouth presided. He read a' message from the Vatican stating: “The Holy Father joins yoa all in wishing Archbishop Mannix God- *

speed.” Archbishop Mannix replying to the

toast of his health, expressed his thanks to all those who had been so good lo him during the weary months he had spent in England looking at the shores of Ireland.

He said he was going hack to Australia a disappointed man through not having seen Ireland, but he was nio'-e “anxious not to sell Ireland than to w her.” POLISH POSITION. LONDON, May 12. According to the “Daily Telegraph” the Allies Commissioners have arranged that Ivorfanty shall stop forwarding much of his troops, enabling the railways and other public services to be reestablished under Polish control. The Allies have been urged to decide the future status of the districts without delay. Meanwhile, Korfanty controls practically the whole of the disputed distriots. , S.S. BENGALLA ASHORE. • Received this dav at 8 a.m.) LONDON, May 12 The steamer Bengalla en route to Sydney, is ashore at Fovensev Bay, as a result of a collision during a fog. There was no loss of life. FURTHER PARTICULARS.

(Received This Dav at 9.45 a.m ) LONDON, May 13. After colliding with the Patella in a thick fog at midnight, the Benalla was beached thirty minutes later. She is now lying a mile from the shore, damaged on'the port side, abaft the bridge. No 4 hold is full. She is not needing help. There are no injuries to the eleven hundred passengers and crew. Tugs are landing the former at Newhaven. The Patella from Port Said, was en route to Rouen and proceeded to Calais. It is expected the Benalla will be refloated next flood tide. COMMERCIAL. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, May 12. Copper—spot £72 13s 9d, forward £7l 16s 3d; electrolytic £73 10s and £74 10s. Lead is £24 7s 6d and' £23 17s 6d, spelter £26 7s 6d and £27 7s 6d. Tin is £179 5s and £IBO ss. Silver is 2s l(Hd.

FRENCH POLITICS. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) PARIS,* May 13. The nress is keenly debating whether M. Briand’s Cabinet will outlive the failure to occupy Ruhr on the Ist May, but Arago, leader of the National Bloc declares the Cabinet is safe. R ATLWAYMEN’S DECISION. (Revived This Dav at 3.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 13 The Executive of the National Union of Railwaymen has decided its members must not handle imported coal for any purpose whatever, nor any coal handled by blackleg labour. SEDITION CHARGE. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 13. John Mac Lean, the so-called Bolshevik Consul for Scotland, and Alexander Ross, a prominent Socialist, were arrested at Glasgow for sedition. SWEDISH POLITICS, (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) STOCKHOLM, May 13. A Government Bill extending the period of military training was negatived by 207 to 72. Von Sydow (Premiers) said there were still large States outside the League of Nations and some of those within it, both large and small, were still eager for war. He could not therefore take the responsibility of disarming. It' might the country its life.