BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

CABLE NEWS.

IUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. AIR ACCIDENTS’. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 15. At Moundsville, Virginia, a bombing plane fell during manoeuvres killing six and injuring fifty spectators. A explosion of bombs destroyed sixteen automobiles at Nordesta, California. Four aeroplanes belonging to the Commercial Flying Company collided when practising at a, height of fifteen hundred feet ,caught fire and fell together into a street along with the charred remains of four aviators.

SHARE OF REPARATIONS. UNITED SEH VICE TELEGRAMS. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 15. It is understood an agreement has been reached with the Dominions to share the German Reparations, due to Britain. On the basis of expenditure and loss of shipping it was complicated because such a basis would ho satisfac_ tory to one country and unfair to another. Tf the losses of shipping formed the basis England would get practically everything, because the Dominion losses were comparatively negligible. Some Dominion reprsentatives suggest_ ed capital investments and pensions as the basis, hut pension scales vary widely. A compromise was finally effected under which Australia and Canada each get 41 per cent, of the Empire’s share which is twenty-two per cent, of the total indemnity of 6600 mil_ lions. Britain will receive eighty-five per cent, of the Empire’s share leaving six per cent, to ho divided amongst the Dominions, other than Australia and Canada.