BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

1 CABLE NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. A PECULIAR CLAIM. [ (Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) ROME, Aug. 27. The Court is hearing a curious case. Popini, a master locksmith, an ex-con-vict, is claiming twenty thousand sterling reward under Government promises. He alleges Government employed hini to burgle the safe of the Austrian Secret Service at Zurich, offering him any money found therein, also twenty thousand reward. The office was constantly guarded and Popini waited for months until the head of the service was attending a masked ball and gave the staff a night off. Popini seized the opportunity, picking several locks and reached the strong-room. He carried the safe by motor to Italy. The safe was found to contain complete plans for. Austro-German espionage in Ifcly. A BODY RECOVERED. LONDON. Aug. 28. Coil’s body has been recovered from the wreck of R3B. SI I.ESI AN REPORT. (Received This J)av at 9.40 a.m.) GENEVA. Aug. 28 Count Ishi lias begun drafting the Silesian report for presentation to. the League of Nations Council on Monday. ] This will ho merely a survey of the 1 situation. It will probably take several months to study the voluminous documents. The mere information of their headings tills nine closely typed pages. SERIOUS TRAIN COLLISION. | IN.-vived 'P is Day at 9.-H) a.m.) ROME. Aug. 28. j A train rilleel with seaside visitors, from lanlispnle. collided with a goods train at .Magliana. Thirty persons wore killed and one hundred injured. j PRINTING TRADE TROUBLE. LONDON, Aug. 27 A ballot among the printing trades unions resulted i’i a big majority against the acceptance of the employers proposal to reduce wages. A quarter of a million employees are involved. CONI.FK TING REPORTS. .(Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 27 Conflicting reports have been received of fighting in Asia Minor. A Constantinople telegram states the Greeks were defeated in a battle at Gordium on a wide front and that the Turks captured Riledjik Yenikeni. A Greek communique states the Turks have prepared a fortified line eighty kilometres in length, running from Gordium to Embeuli; with a second lino behind. The enemy also fortified the east bank of Sakaria river. Greeks advanced south of Sakaria and reoccupied the enemy’s advanced position. A Turkish counterattack was repulsed. INDIAN REVOLT. * | -Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) j DELHI. Aug. 27 j The Provincial Congress lias asked ( Molmied Ali and another leader to visit Malabar to parity the fanatical Moplahs. District magistrates confirm the murdei of Eaton and reports wholesale arson, | and looting, and occasional murders | throughout the affected area, which owing to disordered communication, is threatened with famine. According to a report from Manerji. t r yys have been cut down wholesale and bridges and culverts destroyed to prerent the entry of troops. The fanatics proclaimed a Swaraj in the disturbed areas and x hoisted the green flag as a signal of revolt. BATTLEFIELD EXHUMATKINS. •Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 27. | A Paris correspondent states the de- ! vision has been reached to stop ail fur- ; ther exhumations in France on the . ground of expense, and points out that i unless the Australian Government vigorously protests in a reasonable Lilly it will lie too late to recover twelve thousand Australian dead lying unidentified in the battlefields. Instructions have been issued that the remaining exhumation companies will be disbanded in a month. The correspondent adds that the announcement will he received with consternation in view of the numbers still being found not unrecognisable and suggests an extension of exhumation for another six months. j PARIS MYSTERIES. PARIS, Aug. 27. Alexandrine Yvonne lias reappeared safely. The police are now concentrating oil. tracing a young bride who recently mysteriously disappeared. THE COMING CONFERENCE. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) | WASHINGTON, August 27. \ The State Department announced that as host at the Armaments Conference, United States will provide the machinery of the sessions and bear expense of the Secretariat General »nd Corps of translators; also official p> nting. j RUSSIA’S PLIGHT. | • Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) j LONDON, 28. ! The “Times” Moscow correspondent reports the rapid denationalisation of commerce and industry is proceeding. Fresh categories of commercial articles are continuously thrown open to unrestricted trading. Recent aiders denationalised over seventy per cent of industrial enterprises, which ."ve socialised since the revolution. Orthodox Communists are upset to see the principles which during the last two yeai.were preached as the sole means of the world’s salvation, lining scrapped, hut there is no doubt that Russia's econo mio organisation is going from had to worse.