BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1921, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

VUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ON WITH THE DANCE. , LONDON, May 15 . Passengers on the Benalla were not allowed to leave the deck until the vessel was beached. Only partially dressed, many trampled the decks in their bare feet for hours. In the impromptu dance during the long wait before dawn, women with bare feet and hair streaming down their backs, and dressed in nightgowns, with blankets wrapped round their bodies, danced with men in pyjamas and dressing gowns.

TH E THYROIR.TREATMENT. LONDON, May 13. -'Wilson, cabled on May 12th, made a small fortune as a shipbreaker at Sydney. He is widowed, • but has two adopted children in Australia. Llis death lias redirected attention to thyroid treatment, which cost Wilson £7OO sterling. A West End consultant says thyroids as practised on the Continent is merely a medical freak. There is the gravest danger in administering too much thyroid, as the patient has the aspirations, activities and appetites of youth, but the arteries are weakened by age and cannot withstand the abnormal blood pressure suddenly, and death comes from angina pectoris. Connie Ediss says:—“Thyroid did not make me sixteen again, but I feel younger aiid able to do mote work.

A PEERAGE CONFERRED. LONDON, May 15. A peerage has been conferred on Mr Illingworth, former Postmaster-Gener il. OUTRAGES IN LONDON. EXTENSION OF IRISH CAMPAIGN .Received 'jhis Day a 1 8 a.m.) . LONDON I ,* May 16. Irish raids at. Catford, Shepherd’s Bush, Battersea, Blackheath, Tooting and West Kensington were carried out almost simultaneously, suggesting a number of well armed organized hands. Haulers, wearing masks and armed with revolvers, entered Rouses, demanding information whether the inmates were members of the Royal Irish Constabulary. A man named McNeill, at Shepherd's Bush, whose son-in-law was recently in the Irish Constabulary, but was not in the bouse, was shot and dangerously wounded. Another at Oterham was shot through both thighs, and his wife through the wrist. LONDON. May 16. Following the Irish raids. Scotland Yard authorities mobilized twenty-three motor ears, and parked them with detectives, who scoured the quarters where Irish sympathizers congregate. Th ree arrests were made.

It is believed.that the outrages mark Hie inauguration of a campaign of terror in London.

SUN YAT SEN’S APPEAL. i Received this dav at 9 30 n m.) WASHINGTON, May 16. Mr Hughes has received from Dr Sun Yat Sen, a manifesto addressed to all Po" requesting recognition of the Canton Government, and withdrawal of recognition from the Pekin Government, claiming that the latter has lost the last vestige of control over the provinces. TOW BOAT WORKERS. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 16 The tow boat men have decided not to comply with the strikers request not to handle ships, whose owners have n. t granted the latter’s demands, until they have conferred with the owners. Vessels continue to sail with recruited crews, twelve sailing during the w.'emend. A TRAIN ACCIDENT. NEW YORK, May 16. A telegram from Bloomington, Illi nois, states railway officials declare unknown persons attempted to wreck tin-Chicago-Alton express which “plunged into 'an open switch while travelling at fifty miles an hour. Twenty one were injured.

REFLOATED. (Received This Day at 10.10 a.tn A LONDON, May 14. The ‘Benalla has been refloated and is proceeding under her own steam.

A BYE-ELECTION. (Received This Day at 10.35 a.tnA LONDON, May 14. Penrith election, due to the ex-Speak er’s resignation resulted:— Sir Cecil Lowther (Coalition Unionist 7,678. Collinson (Independent Liberal) 7,*647. It was the’first contest at Penrith for twenty-fire years.

GLUT OF MEAT. (Received This Day at 10.35 n.m.) LONDON, May 14. Cold stores throughout Britain are crammed with imported beef and mutton arrivals. Further shipments will produce a serious glut. Consumption is below normal owing to the “widespread unemployment, and despite the sensational fall of wholesale prices, retailers are 'maintaining the high prices the food controller fixed during the scarcity.

COST OF LEAGUE. (Received this day at 10.20 n.m.) LONDON, May 16. The ‘'Westminster Gazette’s” Geneva correspondent forecasts a rdport of the Commission on the cost of t”he League of Nations, recommends the reduction of the Secretary-General’s salary and 1 allowance from ten thousand to eight thousand. The salaries of the minor officials are not too large, considering the cost of living at Geneva. The League’s headquarters must he transferred to Vienna, Fontainbleau or Brussels, to reduce sensibly the cost of the secretarial officers.

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