BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

*— AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATI INDIAN RIOTS. DELHI, Aug. 2o lu connection with the Moplali t turbances, Malabar district >as ■>< proclaimed a military area. Maysti. Battv and an armed force pi oceeding Pattamdi met a crowd o f Mopiahs u they warned to keep off the ra in under penalty of shooting. 11m cro contimled to advance, wl.creupon m ders were given to lire Let sgu " The casualties are unknmvii. but U believed to lie heavy. Hatty s tone turned to Shoranur and biter proceed to C’otaparan, where the Moph threatened to attack, Yesterday Moplahs attacked Cherapolachery pol station and destroyed the recort s a burned the sub-treasury at ieii.ua manua. They looted eight tlmusa sterling. Other similar outrages ™,r«d ols«»hcre. The pop»l»>*><•« « not molested, but consternation I" vails. SOUTHLAND’S LOAN. LONDON, August 20. The Southland Electric Supp Board’s Loan has been over subscribe pike IN MOSCOW. RIGA, Aug. 25. \ .rreat fire has been raging in Moi cow " for two days. Three hundre houses were destroyed, and many peop perished. SOVIET REPORT. NEW YORK, Aug. 25. A San Francisco message reports tin M. Selig Shnlberg, who claims to repn sent the Soviet Government, has give out the text of a Note which he say >l. TchitcWerin (Soviet .foreign Mini: ter), has despatched to the represei tatives of Britain, France, Japan, an China, in which Russia issues a warn ing that she will not he houml by an; decision of the Armament Conference NEW CYCLING RECORD. CAPETOWN, August 25. Kattenbrun, tho Olympic rider cycled 25 miles 953 yards unpaced in a hour, breaking Brnmwell’s British En pire record. C \NADIAN~STEAMER LOST. VANCOUVER, Aug. 25. The steamer Canadian Importer ha Hunk off the Washington Coast. Pan of the crow have been picked up. I her is a lioat load missing. < PARIS SENSA'ITON. ' LONDON, Aug. 2(L Following on tho gruesome discover; «f u limbless and headless body of a girl in the Seine River, the “Morning Past’s” Paris correspondent says: 'Hu police are being deluged with report: of missing girls. A total of 211 hav< already been received. The police believe that the majority of these girls have disappeared voluntarily to escape from importunate lovers, or because they did not desire mar-,-iages that have been arranged for them. THE SEINE HORROR. (Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) PARIS, Aug. 25. lii connection with the discovery of a woman’s arms in the Seine, cabled on the 24th, the mother identified them by 1 a scar as those of her daughter (Alexandrine Yvonne), aged 23. The police are searching for a man, Jnlin, an habitual of dance halls, whom Alexandrine was last seen with. He allegedly exercised a magnetic influence over wolne*. BIG BERLIN DEMONSTRATION. LONDON, August 25. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Berlin correspondent reports that 10.000 German ex-officers and soldiers and sailors, head, ed by Prince Eitel Frederick (the exKaiser’s second son) and General Ludendorf, paraded at the Stadium, ostensibly to celebrate the memory of the fallen comrades, but in reality to participate in a militaristic propaganda. The demonstration was attended bv 1000 school children, wha formed a guard for tho troops, and threw flowers at them. The meeting listened to n diatribe by General Von Dergoltz against the Allies’ blockade on Germany, the General eulogising old militaristic rule. The ex-Kaiser telegraphed : “With warm gratitude, I think to-day of my brave comrades who never were vanquished in the field. With true German loyalty they achieved, against world enemies, deeds sncli as history had never known. Their heroism lives on unforgotten. It is honourable to the memory of the dead, and for the initiation of the living and of future generations. May the halo of the great days of the past be a beacon for the victorious illumination of a still dark future. God protect the Fatherland and its people.” MARCH OF MINERS. NEW YORK, August 25. The Governor of West Virginia has requested th ( » United States War Department to rush 1000 troops to the State, in order to meet 5000 miners who are marching from the Mingo coal fields in a protest against the declaration of martial law, which is still existing there. Many miners have arrived from the field in the towns. At the town of Logan 500 citizens are organising to oppose the miners. Reports to the Governor state that I the miners are commandeering stores j as they advance. A FIRE IN GREECE. I (Received’This Dav at 10.15 a.m.) t ATHENS, Aug. 2(5 , A fire has been raging in Eskishohr | for several days. The greater part of j the town is destroyed. 1 SALE OF GOLD. j (Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) CAPETOWN, Aug. 20. | Tt is rumoured on the Stock Ex- ! change at Johannesburg,, that arrangements are, being made for the sale forward of gold produced in South Africa for two years, thereby saving the Min- j istry. from calamities, attending the heavy drop in gold. 1 A GREEK REPORT. (Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 25. Smyrna reports a Greek military communique of 23rd states after long marches on both Hanks of the river Safi aria, and through the Great Salt Desert, we are in contact with the main enemy force south of the river, Oheonkson, which Is a tributary of the Snkn-