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Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1921, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. SIR K. CASSEL’S ESTATE. LONDON, Setember 27. It is understood that the late Sir Ernest Cassell’s estate will be £IO,OOO- - . The Public Trustee will probably !;• the Executor. ... jfc, FR F.XC H Mil .ITAR TSTS. LONDON, September 28. The '‘Daily Express”' Paris correspondent states: Marshall Fayolle and Ja party of French offerers and troops have lately visited Italy to attend the unveiling of a monument to the French soldiers who were killed on the Italian front. The mission received a hostile reception al Milan, where they were generally hooted. The officers were maltreated in the streets. The gravest incidents occurred at Venice. The city was generously bellagged. but no French colours were visible.

The French troops displayed the tricolours, whereupon the populace hooted and groaned. The men and women broke a cordon of police and chased Marshall Fayolle into the campanile ef St Mark shouting ‘Down with France’! The'disturbances continued for hours. When an Italian mission visited France on a similar errand it had an enthusiastic reception. FAMOUS CRICKETER. LONDON. September 28. A testimonial fund for Hirst-, the famouse Yorkshire cricketer, amounts to £<>so. SAILORS DISPUTE. (Received This Day at 5.30 n.m.) LONDON, Sept. 28. The National Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union expelled a number of memliers mostly left wing elements, who formed vigilance committees to. watch the interests of the rank and file. The exjielled members charged the executive with thriving on the men’s contributions, being little better than boardinghouse runners. | BIG PARIS FIRE. (Received This Day at 8.30 n.m.) PARIS, Sept. A fire destroyed Magasin dtt Printemps huge store on Roulevard Laussmann, one of the biggest in the city, an eight storey building with every modern improvement and 2d lifts, employing dOOO hands. Fortunately few : employees were on the premises as the 1 outbreak occurred at 7.50 in the morning. The lire quickly spread over t’ e whole building and within an hour the front collapsed into the street, the immense cupola crushing down with a tremendous noise. A huge force of firemen are lighting the flames. The damage will amount to several million francs.