AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1921, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

tUHTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. WIU KI/KSS EXPKttT.MENTS. M KLHODKXE, December <i. Further experiments in direct wireless have been conducted. Several press messages have been received. One came from the London office of the Australian Press Association to it* head office in Australia. It- was sent from Carnarvon to a long distance i**ceiving station established by the Amalgamated Wireless Limited, at Knnweepip. in Victoria. Tie* message, which had been previously cabled, was despatched at eight in the evening. Cicnwich time and wo*. instantaneous |y receivcfl ,it the eijiijvsdcnl Viciolhiti t line.

Later a lengthy expel imental message containing a number °f ncwsjmp* or extracts was received by the Post mnster-deneral from the British Post office Terminal Station at Lea field.

near Oxford, and was intercepted by tlie Perth radio. WIKELESS NEWS. ML-reived Tins Day at 10. In a.m.) MEL ROT’UN E. Dec-ember 0.

The first direct wireless message from London was received yesterday by flic I’ustniastcr-Gcnera!. It contained the following, among a number of new s items :

Tiler i- surprise la-re at report- vvhieli appeared ill French press ol recent conversations between Lord Curzcni and Freneli Ambassador in l.imihm. emitradieting tin- suggestion that Lord Curzon more or loss apologised for what he said in his recent speech. Newspaper understand that land Curznn at in--1 -*rvievv with Freneli Ambassador. fully maintained the standpoint he adopted in his speech, luit showed lie was only too anxious to take the French at their word, when they protest at the solidarity of the Entente. What laird Curzon suggested therefore, was that the French Government should agree to a meeting of British. French and Italian Foreign Ministers to he held as early a- possible with the determination that they should not part, until an agreement was reached in the Allied policy in the Near East. Tie- Manchester “(iuaidian" explains the British t .'overnment has all along felt that only by close collaboration between tlie three powers can peace he brought about in tin- Near East. It was precisely because- ol t lieaction of France in endorsing the l-’i iiiiieklin-Boiiilloii agreement. with Turkey, that it appeared to them a complete departure from this principle and bad been interpreted especially by Turks as meaning that it would he possible' tee carry on entirely separate- ne‘got in t ions with the- l-'re-nili dnveinmeiit. That the British Government had shown tlie-fr disquietude, was strongly understood from their note-, of reply, aelels the "(i tin relian”. TinFreneli (love-i iiinent accepted the- principle? of*” close- allied collaboration in tills matter, hut the British idea was that assurances should he- t raiisla te-el to action.

FOI’R MEN KILLED. TT.RTII. Dee. 7

Four men we-re* instantly kiile-et at l lie Cole 101 l Horse-shoe mine- at, Kalgoorlie 1 lie- cage falling six hundred te-et. Tlire-e: men we-re seriously iniure-d The cage was leering leiwe-re-d uith se-ven uie-n evlie-i thee reed eif the- brake- eif the- winding-oii-gi He- broke. .Inliii N'eelali. aged 3D. I.e-s lie- Kuos 21. Ch.irles Orsuotti 29. and .lollii Berieli 20. were- de-ael when remov cd from the- cage-. Two others are <-ri tieal.