BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1921, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. *

TO CLIMB MT. EVEREST

DELHI, May 18 v. The Mt Everest expedition lias divided into three parties. One left on Friday. The remainder go to-morrow to the base of the mountain in ihe Tengri Jong district, 30' miles north of Mt Everest. The Government have supplied 100 mules, trained for work a:, high altitudes, and the bearers will l>»; natives living on the lower slopes of Mr Everest.

It is hoped to map thousands of square miles of unexplored country mt known to Europeans, but the main work will be the discovery of a route to the top of Mt Everest. The climbers will carry high altitude oxygen hags and . special arrangements are made for the transport of food at great heights in small boxes, each containing food for tu’o men for five days. These were specially made in London.

EMIGRANTS FOR NEW ZEALAND. LONDON, May 17. New Zealand ships are taking more emigrants. There are 150 emigrants going in each of the following vessels: JPaparoa, sailing on May 26; Ruahine, sailing on June 2; Dorset sailing on June 18. The Paparoa is taking 900 emigrants on June 16. Half of these will he nominees, and half ex-service men. All are to he guaranteed employment and housing accommodation in New Zealand.' NURSE CAVELL’S BETRAYER. BRUSSELS, May 17 Armand Jeanne, betrayer of Nurse Cavell, has been arrested at Mons. Jeanne, it seems, throughout the German occupation, carried on espionagework for the Allies, hut betrayed them to the Germans. He also betrayed his employer, a barrister of Mons, whom the Germans sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment. ITALIAN ELECTIONS. * LONDON, May 17 Though not complete the Italian election returns show a general victory for the National Liberal Coalition, except in Milan, where tlio Socialists polled more than the Liberals and Catholic candidates together. Signor Giolitti, Nitti, Salandra and Orlando were reelected. Austro-Germans won all the four Upper Adige seats. The Socialist diminution is not as great as was expected. The Catholic candidates did poorly. FRACAS ON SCHOONER. SUVA) May 18. The American, schooner, Betsey Ross, arrived last night, bound from Sydney to Seattle, in ballast. A Nubian ran amok six days ago and knifed two Malays among the crew, one seriously. The latter is in the Suva Hospital. The Nubian is in irons on the ship. ENGLAND’S SERIOUS STATE. \ ~ .LONDON, May 18 < According to statistics compiled by the Ministry of Labour, the depression in employment has been exceptionally severe since March 31, owing to the decline in trade it- became much more acute in April in consequence of the effects of the coal strike, which brought to a standstill some industries. Those unemployed "(excluding the miners) registered at the Employment Exchanges to April 2*9 approximated 1,854,000. This was exclusive of a million males and females who are on short time.

THE ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY

RENEWAL OPPOSED

(Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.} NEW YORK, May 18 The New York “Tribune’s” Washington correspondent interviewed Mr Betram Simpson'the Chinese Government Agent who toured Canada opposing the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty. Mr Simpson declared: “I am much impressed with the conviction of the United States Senators with whom I talked that it would he impossible for the Anglo-Japanese Treaty to be written so as to meet the American objections. This is tremendously significant, in view of the public utterances of Premier Hughes of Australia, and Mr Massey of New Zealand that the Treaty must be renewed in such a shape as to he satisfactory to the United States. Mr Simpson added: “Senators McCormick, Lodge, Borah, and Johnson concurred in this view.”