BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

aUBTHALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. BYE-ELECTION. , LONDON, February 18. Clayton bye-election, owing to Hopkinson’s death, resulted. Sutton (Labour) 14,662. Flanaghan (Coalitionist) 11,038. SHOT AT CAIRO. .Received This Day at 8 a.m.) CAIRO, February 19.

Alfred Brown, a high official in the Ministry of Education was shot and seriously wounded. His assailant escaped.

A DOUBT. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) PARIS, FebiHiab’y 19,

Tile Procurator General doubts the authenticity of the testimony relating t 0 the burial of Heon at Montreal. He considers there is no occasion to review Landru’s case. NEW AERO ENGINE. LONDON, February 17. Napiers have constructed a new aeroengine of a thousand horse power and it only weighs 2200 pounds. It wib be fitted in a specially designed aeroplane, ilow building for the air Ministry.

A FRICAN PAR LI A .RENT

THE OPENING SPEECH

(Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.)

CAPETOWN. Feb. 18

The Governor General’s speech at the opening of Parliament announced that I Government had taken over full responsibility for the defence of the j South African Union. It welcomed the [ Irish Free State as a sister dominion [ and trusted it would prove a new source of strength to the Empire. Government had accepted the invitation to send a representative to Genoa Conference. Negotiations for admission of Rhodesia into the union were in progress. Regarding the strike, the speech stated a. Board would be appointed to consider the changes necessary to enable the gold mining industry to be conducted on a sound, economic basis so as to afford employment for the largest possible number of persons dependent thereon. Mr Hertzog gave notice to move for the appointment of a Select Committee to consider means of settling the strike. He explained his efforts to secure a settlement and said that neither side had assisted the Government by nominating members to the proposed settlement board. Parliament would, as a last resort be the venue of permanent settlement but it could not act without impartial, direct information. Strikers were returning to work in small numbers and no doubt when they realized that Parliament could not take imme diatc action the strike would be ended. The men had behaved well in spite of certain incitements and were entitled to fair treatment. The funds were running out and the sooner they resumed the better for themselves and the country.

RUSSIAN MONEY FOR COMMUNISTS.

Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 19.

Mr Thomas, at Sheffield, said Russian money coming to this country, was being used by the Communist Party, lie was going to see the British public had full details. A CURIOUS MUTINY. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) PARIS, Feb. 19. Captain Cochiry of the liner Amazon, withdrew proceedings against members of the crew, charged with mutiny under remarkable circumstances. The seamen who had been in prison for some time, were released. The mutiny started when a steward considering himself insulted by a passenger, referred the matter to the Secretary of the Seamen’s Union, who happened to lie aboard. Tlio Secretary ordered the passengers were not to be served by any steward. Other passengers intervened and” all the stewards demanded that the passengers be put ashore. The mutiny then commenced. The passengers were refused all food and a Soviet tribunal was set up.

KEM A LIST ACTION

(Received This Day at 12.25 p.m.) ATHENS, Feb. 18

Evidence of the manner in which the Kemalists are observing the provisions of the Franco^Purkish Treaty are afford ed by the decree of the Nationalist Minister of Religion forbidding the inhabitants of Asia Minor to have an\ relations with the Greek patriarch at Constantinople under penalty of death.

The Synodical Court of Athens, presided over hv the Metropolitan recently found the Patriarch Mitezakis guilty of forming a Schism, and sentenced him to degredation and imprisonment, hut he went to Constantinople.

EGYPTIAN MURDERS. Received This Dav at 12.25 p.m.) CAIRO, Feb. 19

Jordan’s murder is the fifth outrage of the kind in a week and suggests that the rebels have commenced a policy of the murder of British officials and residents. Extraordinary circumstances surround Jordan’s death. The body was found on one of the busiest bridges of the city and not an iota of evidence how it came there, though it was broad daylight. When taken to the hospital, a native doctor certified to heart failure hut a post mortem revealed a bullet in the stomach.

Brown was shot with a revolver in a busy street, when he left his office at lunch time. Brown’s servant who was behind his .master, was also wounded. The assailant escaped, firing in ordei to deter his pursuers. Brown died in the evening. Beach, a railway official, was leaving a suburban station with his wife, -when he was shot in the thigh by two natives who escaped.

SCAREMONGERS. PARIS, Feb. 18. t Government have expelled Jean Xydias, the Russian hanker, and Anetra, an Austrian barrister, (both are reputedly of Bolshevik tendencies), in connection with the campaign of financial defamation in France.