MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1922, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

DESTROYER DAMAGES. SUBMARINE. LONDON, Feb, 13. During the Atlantic Fleet’s exercises off Majorca, the destroyer, Vancouver collided with the submarine L. 24. The latter had her conning tower aind periscopes shorn off. There was) jio loss of life.

ARMY TO POLITICS. LONDON, Feb. 13

Field-Marshall Sir Henry Wilson, late Chief of the Imperial General Staff, will contest the North Down hv-election as a Unionist candidate. ,:

POSTPONED. 10NDON, Feb. 14

The British Empire exhibition at Wembley Park has been postponed till 1924.

(IEN 0 A CON FERENC IE. ROME, Feb. 13

The Czecho Slovakian Minister here states that he has blinded a Note to tlie Italian Foreign Office, asking for a three weeks’ postponement of t 1 c Genoa Conference.

ALLENBY’S SUGGESTIONS

LONDON, Feb. 14

The “Daily Express” understands that the main points which Lord Alleuby is urging are:—That the British troops shall evacuate Cairo and Alexandria ; that the British shall garrison the Suez Canal and Cantara; also Port Said and Edlubi; that Britain shall retain an air station a Abonkir, the abolition of the capitulations; Britain to be responsble for foreign interests in Egypt; the Soudan to retain its present status foi’ reads, when the question would be reviewed: the abolition of the British High Comniissionersrip; the substitution of a. British Consul-General, similar to Kitchener’s time.