BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 March 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

lUBTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION THE ROYAL WEDDING. 'Deceived This Day at 0.40 a.m.) LONDON, March 4. At the King’s desire the public were admitted to view tile wedding presents at Saint James Palace from Bth, on payment of a shilling, which is to hie devoted to charity. Copies of the marriage register licence will be shown in the Abbey for the same fee. Large crowds are flocking to Sandringham, which is en fete. The King is entertaining 3000 tenants, comprising nine villages, in honour of the wedding.

JIM JEFFRIES TURNS PREACHER. ukuter’s telegrams(Received This Dav at 0.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 4 Jim Jeffries, the pugilist, has joined Billy Sunday in his evangelizing work. BROKERAGE FIRMS BREAKUP. ;Received. This Day at 0.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 4 Nearly fifty brokerage linns _ have crashed since January. One of the largest houses is included in to-day’s of six. Frenzied customers are besieging the other houses, whose stability is regarded as uncertain. During recent months the Stock Exchange showed a Steady advance and bucket shops were unable to recoup themselves because they expected <t drop in pi ices. Proprietors of bucket shops are fleeing before the District Attorney’s crusade. Out of fifty indictments sworn, only six arrests have been made. Detectives find empty offices. Scores of defaulting brokers have fled to Europe, taking thengold and stock certificates with tltem. They find the trip cheaper than putting up 5(),000 dollars hail.

WAR GRAVES

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS

.'Received This Dav at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, March 4

The Imperial War Graves Commission | have decided to refuse all applications . foe the removal of the bodies of soldier* | from graves in the French war theatres i to Great Britain, as such action was opposed to unanimously, adopted and strongly supported, policy ol equality ot treatment to the fallen. j A COLLISION. NEW YORK. March 5 \ charabanc collided with a train at Cleveland and 15 persons were killed and 12 iniured. .MORE BROKERS FAIL.

'Received This Day at 9.5a.m.) __ j OTTAWA, -March o. Four brokers have failed in Montreal, I «'ith l leavy liabilities. dollars worth of bond* in tin- «•>«' Z vault of the City H.ll "ill he saved. fighting and fiume. REUTEII’S TELEGRAMS. ROME, March o. I The casualties iu the Fiume ng were live killed and forty-rnne woujled The Foreign Minister h. nouneed that the Italian Government . “ions to re-establish tranquility a ! Fiume, and is sending Commander Cas telli as representative. revolution ended. (Received This Day at 1-5 p.m.) ( LONDON, March 5, ' i The Finnic revolution has endec . : rivVwer,

ed committee of national U. formed and append to Italy take over the protection of th « The Government sent troops to lestore order The revolutionaries seized a nitor and bombarded House from the harbour, bu I damage was done. Zanella finally hoisted a white flag, and was placed m an armoured c ar and escorted out of the city. NEW YORK, March 4. Strangler Lewis took two falls from Zbyszko, using the lmndlock and re- • gaining the heavy-weight pestling i championship. Zbyszko won the first fall.

FIUME REVOLT. (Received This Day at 9.5 a.m.) ROME, March 4. Details of the Fiume trouble show that the attack on the Governor’s Palace was made by Fascists legionaites, headed by Deputy Guiuta. After several hours bombing and machine gunning in which both sides lost a iiumbei of dead and wounded, a military committee was sent by the besiegers to the Governor demanding disarmament of the police and resignation of the Government. The Governor subsequently issued a proclamation that lie was compelled to surrender to revolutionary forces, and transferred his powers 1o the national citizens committee of defence.

It is reported that the Governor (General Tanella) left the town, and that a new Provisional Government lias been installed in the Palace. A later message stated the committee of Notional Defence had proclaimed that m consequence of the Provisional Government’s capitulation, after heavy fighting, the Provisional Government and Constituent Assembly had been dissolved and the committee had provisionally assumed full powers and entrusted the maintenance of order to Carabinieu royal troops and requested the Italian Government to assume the administration bv appointing a representative who alone would be in a position to guarantee order and tranquility. A national citizens guard will be formed. THE CROWN PRINCE. UNITED SERVICE TELEGRAMS. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 4.

The “Observer’s” Berlin correspondent reports an extraordinary revulsion of public opinion lias restored the Crown Prince to popular favour. It started by the chance discovery of his likeness to Frederick the Great m a widely shown film, which has since steadily grown and assumed wide dimensions which, pending the publication of his memoirs, is likely to consolidate all classes, including many Republicans who share the new feeling. Even Theodore Wolff writes in the “Tagehlatt” urging that the Prince be allowed to return and assist in the development of Germany. There are wild rumours afloat crediting the exile with excellent chances of securing the Presidentship of the Republic. In short lie is easily the most popular figure in Germany to-day.

INTER-TRIBAL FIGHT. MELBOURNE, March <>

It is officially stated that in an inter-tribal fight in New'Guinea a chief lymli .twenty natives were killed. A patrol sent to the district to prevent further trouble fell , into a native ambush. A skirmish followed, in which three natives were wounded; one in a dying condition, and suffering so severely that actuated presumably by motives of humanity he was put out of his misery. As a result of this action the patrol leader was charged with manslaughter and sentenced to twelve months hard labour.

THE TAYLOR MURDER. reuter’s telegrams. (Received This Day at >".30 a.in.) NEW YORK, March 1. The police have discharged six alleged iHKitleggers, who were recently arrested in connection with Taylor s murder. All proved a satisfactory alibi. The police now state they have received a letter fijom a man whose name is with-held, confessing the writer killed Taylor in revenge for an old feud and that he is fleeing overseas. The police are satisfied the writer has a genuine knowledge as to who committed the crime. BRITISH AND CHINESE.

ißeceived This Day at 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK. March 5.

A United Press message from, ITong Kong stated the British troops fired on Chinese strikers killing three, and wounding eight, and .seized :t quantity of arms, ammunitions and machine guns which had been played at strategic positions throughout the town. THE UNWRITTEN LAW. .Received This Day at 11.30 arm.) PARTS. March 5. Interest has been aroused by the unwritten law trial of Madame Perron, a pretty actress, accused of murdering her husband, the Director of Bordeaux Theatre. The prisoner gave evidence that her husband visited Dijon Theatre m A fell in love with the daughter of the Dijon Director. She made repeated efforts to induce the girl to leave her bus hand and failed. Madame Perron then took a, pistol from her vanity bag and fired tbr ee times, killing her husband. She was acquitted.

GERMAN CRIMINALS

'Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) t LONDON, Eel). 5. c The “Daily Chronicle’s” Berlin cor- £ respondent reports two of Germany’s t most dangerous criminals were captured , i„ a remarkable way. A married couple 1 recently settled at Schweren, and ap- 1 neared' to ho wealthy. They were re- i ceived in good society and entertained 3 lavishly. Suddenly the wife was taken ill and was removed to a, hospital. When told she must undergo an operaticn, she tome alarmed at Cte P"*- I neet of an anaesthetic, and confided to ( the nurse that she was afraid she might < reveal things while unconscious. Later, j se said that no one must know about a, ■certain chest containing gold. Thei police heard the story and guessed that the couple were smuggling gold to Holland. They searched the house and then found the man was a locksmith named Droll and the woman a, Bavarian, named Slodow. The chest contained a iarge amount

Of minted bar gold, while papers snowed j the couple were criminals against, whom there were charges, including th* murder of an old woman near Hubert, theft of curios, from Kynsburg ( and museum in Silesia worth many nul-1 lion marks. While posing as a wealthy couple they earned out numerous bur-| glaries at Schwerin. Droll had previously been imprisoned thrice. .He es-, raped from gpol once and joined the police ns a detective, and joined m the search for himself.

A SENSATIONAL TRIAL. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) ROME, March 5. A sensational red guard trial is reported at Turin. The guards were charged with murdering two workmen during the occupation of a. factory in September 1920. Two r ed guards and three women set up a' tribunal and sentenced a workman to be shot and another to be burned alive in tho factory furnace. "When the workman was dragged to the furnace, the fire was out so lie was shot. There were stormy scenes in the dock, the three’ women blaming the men who fought in the dock till Carrabineer-s intervened.

A GERMAN CRITIC. ;Received This Day at 12.2 d p.m.) BERLIN, .March 0.

The discussion in the Reichstag on the estimates of the Ministry of Reconstruction, included a debate on Colonial administration. National Deputy Lcvverens, who is an ex-colonial official, made a. slashing attack on the alleged mismanagement, corruption and inefficiency of the British and French administrators of former German colonies. He said a monstrous Condition had been brought about by the mandate- system. All that Germany had built up in three decades bad been destroyed. The European population of East Africa, bad decreased from six thousand to two thousand. Once blooming German plantations bad disappeared, and railways were colsed. Tilings were even worse in Camerons and Togo, where the French bod introduced universal military service. The sanitary conditions were lamentable and .there were scandals among the officers. BERLIN, March 5.

Tlie New Zealanders bad expelled Gc'rmans frlom ‘Samoa aiid now the plantations were neglected. Spanish influenza was raging among the population. Mismanagement in New Guinea attracted attention even in the Australian Parliament, where the prevailing conditions were described as chaotic. Therefore it was clear that the mandatory system did not promote the welfare of the people. It was the peremptory duty of Germany to insist a , ra in and again, that Germany should be allowed to co-operate in the tasks of colonisation, and should receive mandates over the territories where she had accomplished decade s of civilising work. Happily the Government had not buried the. hope that Germany would get her colonies back. REPUBLICAN RAID. LONDON, Mareli 5.

four hundred Republican soldiers raided Limerick with the object of supporting the mid-Limerick Brigades proclamation of fealty to the Republic.