BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1921, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

VUSTUALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.

AVALANCHE OF ROCK. LONDON, August 2

The “Daily Mail’s” Berlin correspondent reports: Sandling mountain in the Salzkammergut region, in Upper Austria is again becoming dangerous. Daily gigantic avalanches of rock slic from the summit, undermining the peak. The pressure of the mattes of rock is forcing out rock, earth and clay, from the interior of the mountain, and this solid matter is being driven, like a river, down the valleys. It is a sweeping path of destruction. It already has advanced 3 miles, engulfing a forest in its path.

INDIAN CROP PROSPECTS. DELHI, August 1. Since the middle of Jvdy, excellent and well distributed rain has fallen in the districts where a shortage prevailed. A continuation of the rain ia necessary till the middle of September to ensure the success of the monsoon, but the prospects are distinctly bright. AEROPLANE TO NORTH POLE! WASHINGTON, August 1. Edwin Naully, an American Aletom.logist has announced that he will make a flight across the Arctic Ocean to the North Pole thence to Spitsbergen to the North Cape in Norway. The start will be made from Point Barrow, Alas ka in September. A stop will he made at the Pole for observation. One aeroplane will he used and there will be three pilots besides himself.

Naully declared the adventure is not incentive, hut he hopes to accomplish certain scientific results* the study of Arctic air currents, magnetic variation and inclination. The machine will he equipped with wireless for communication with civilisation. • /

SUPREME COUNCIL AND THE NEAR EAST. LONDON, Aug. 2. Air Lloyd George, and Lord Curzon are going to Paris on Sunday next to represent Great Britain at the meeting of the Supreme Allied Council The “Daily Chronicle” says it un derstands M. Briand is anxious that the Council shall discuss the Near East question. The paper adds:. “‘lf the prospects for successful intervention between Turkey and Greece are considered good, that subject will be debated.” - GREEK JUBILATION. ATHENS, Aug. 1. Constantine and the Premier ceremoniously entered Eskisliehr, and attended solemn thanksgiving service. T_l, e Ring afterwards reviewed the Greek troops. TURKEY AND RUSSIA. LONDON, Aug 1. The ‘Morning Past’s” Constantinople correspondent states the Angora Turkish Parliament has overwhelmingly ratified the treaty with Moscow. Yousouf Kemal Bey, the Foreign Minister, said that Turkey is only fighting for hpr freedom. Russia has sympathised with this ideal, a s it is directed towards the liberation of the Oriental peoples. The Bolshevik ambassador communicated with Youssotif Bey regarding the Turkish reverses, stating that Greece means to break Turkey’s resources, but it, is certain that she can never keep territories she now holds unjustly. He added:— The Russian National Red Army hopes for the realisation of your aims and is watching the war sympathetically. KOBE STRIKERS. TOKIO, Aug. 1. There has been continued violence at Kobe. It lias resulted in the Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Works granting many of the strikers’ demands, including the placing of the factory in charge of a Technical Management AVorks Committee, also an eight-hour day, and pen-

sions. The Kawasaki Company i s also expected to grant the demands. The vernacular Japanese press thinks that Soviet influences are behind tho Japanese strikes. Some Bolshevik literature was seized in Harbin It was traced to an Osaka printing office. It r alleged that numbers of Bolslievikss agents in Japan are posing ns merchants.

WIATTON QUESTION. LONDON, Aug. 3. The “Times” in a leading article, state s that the core of the whole airship controversy is the lavislme.s of military air expenditure, accompanied bv doctrinaire parsimony in everything concerning civil flying. MTiile thdmperinl Conference is carefully deliberating a. decision of tho greatest Imperial import the Air Ministry, through t l,e medium of Ca.pt. Guest, forestalls it and sallies forth to convince the Dominion delegates that the expense will he greater than British States can afford. Tim Air Ministry is unable to visualise the vast imperial importance of the civil and comercial phase, and i s unwilling to learn their possibihties despite proof from the United States and Germany of their faith in air. stuns The Dominion delegates, however,’appreciate the need of swift communications and will not reject lightly any project likely to assist m attaining them. One of their difficulties is the open hostiltiy of the Air Ministry. It i s neither pleasant nor easy for the Dominion Premiers to go „n in the face of the Britsh official opposition, hut they will not shrink, if they believe Imperial interests demand firmness. A, NEW RECORD. HONOLULU, August 1.

A new world’s record for a women’s "400 yards swimming relay race of 28. i seconds was made by Ruth Scuddcr. Helen Moses, Lillie 'Bowmen, and Edith Cassidy.

GREEK OPERATIONS. , (Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) ATHENS, Aug. 2. A semi-official message reports an expedition is being organised against tho town 1 of Angora. A new advance is ox-, peeled within a fortnight.