BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

ItLUTHit’s TKLKUKAMS NKWS UK ISOYALTY. LONDON, Dor. 2 I’riiiutKs .Miiry li:»s pl.iird !h*r ti»^t lion—«:hii with D ,,; OHirois F;hu il\ I ioin-1 rio> Sm-ioty. An amninir artist. 2A. Ini" rumple tod a portrait ol llu* lVimv ui' Wales. ( liander ho«£:m his liist artistic study alter demobilisation two years a‘p>.

SOCCKU Tout OK A KSTI* A LASI A LONDON, Dee. I.

The Association Football i> disposed to consider tavournhly a proposal to send a strong team to Australasia in IP2d-21, subject to satisfaei«oy financial a ll atieemonts, and to the possibility ol selecting a team oood enough to lepreseiit the host type ol KlUilish Niece r.

StIXOMA'S GOLD, LAST OF COINS FOUND. SAN FRANCISCO. Dee. 1. The remainder of tie- Soiioma’s gold lias been found. It "as located in a drainpipe. Only two pounds out of a total of 125,000 dollars worth, is now iinaeeoiiuted for.

THE SONOAI A S GOLD, t ßeceived This Day at 10.1,a a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2

All Imi two sovereigns of the Sonoma gold are now solely resling in the vaults of the local hank. Two detectives claim they have traced the two coins.and know "hen- they were changed, and by "horn. 1 hey say the\ have also established the identity ol the man win, engineered the tin'll, mill a wan ant will he shortly issued On 1 1 is arrest.

FRZ F, BERGER’S A SSASSIX SOUGHT. ROME, December 2. The Milan police are searching f>n Hcinerich Schultz, one ol the assassins of 1)1- Lrzeherger. the German statesman. Schultz has been identified in aAI ihin cafe with a woman. Directly they were recognised the pair took llight. VIENNA MOB RULE. f ßeceived This Day at 9.40 a.m.) VIENNA. Dee 2. 'Pillaging in the city includes the Bristol lintel where English and American guests sought reluge*. Ihe goo‘ s room was plundered and broken open, rooms rilled; boxes stolen and the whole of tliel goods and clothing strewn. Iho mol, also raided two haiiks smashing the windows and furniture, stopped tramears mid forced the better class passengers L> hand over furs and coats.

SWISS CUSTOMS EVADED. LONDON, Dec 2. 'The Berlin correspondent, of the “Daily Express” states: —“A thousand women living on tlm frontier are d.iil\ passing into Germany, wearing old clothes, whieh they discard when they have passed tho frontier, and buy new ones with cheap marks. They get entire new outfits, which pay no duty upon their return. The Swiss authorities have now decided that, even' person passing the frontier must have even article of clothing stamped with an official seal. Even the most intimate articles of atti'e will not escape registration. AA! ERR ‘A N UNEAII’LOYED (Received This Day at 9.110 a.m.) WASHINGTON. Dee I. Mr Hoover announced that the linemplovcd throughout the country have boon reduced bv more than a million through the efforts of the natmnnl conference on unemployment, and as a result.. severe suffering during the "into! will he prevented.

, hkkltn. n.v 2. | As Rat lionau made his re-appenrnnco I in the. portfolio of 'Minister of Reran- ' strnotion conditional upon tlic success of negotiations in London, a favourable j agreement is confidently anticipated.