BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1922, Page 1

BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

[by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION! THREAT. OF RESIGNATION. (Received This Dav at 9.40 a.m.) CONDON, March 15. Sir James Craig, speaking in the Ulster parliament, declared the Derry were reprieved over the Ulster Government’s head. Craig added;—“lf there is futile interference with the Courts by the Viceroy I shall resign”.

ENGINEERS’ DISPUTE CONDON, March 15. The Joint Council of the Amalgamated Engineers Union have decided to ask Hons Chamberlain and MacNamara to urge Government to appoint a Court of Inquiry to go fully into the Engineering dispute.

FLYING BOAT FAILURE LONDON March 15

The Valentia, one of the three giant Vickers flying boats, jnst completed for the Air Ministry wa s wrecked off Hastings. The craft nose dived into the sea, The crew of four were rescued after dinging to the boat’s tail for half an hoar.

EXTREMIST LEADER REMAINS PRISONER. LONDON, March 14.

Colenel Wedgewood Benn, in the House of Commons, raised the Egyptian question. He said: “The British Government have now conceded Zaghlul’s demands. What are they going therefore, to do about that patriot?” Rt. Hon. A. Chamberlain (leader of the House), in replying, recalled Zagb--1 ill’s records, which he claimed had been “very bad.” He was following, said Mr Chamberlain, Arab£ Pasha, and he was an open sympathiser with Turkey during the war. He was the initiator of the violent Egyptian campaign, which had terminated in disturbances in March, 1919. There was a sigh of relief when he was deport ed from Egypt. Mr Chamberlain added that he would not be brought back to Egypt while there was any danger to the peace of Egypt.

CRIME IN ENGLAND. LONDON, March 14

Lady White, widow of S’r Edward White, late chairman of the London County Council, was the victim of a murderous attack at a West End hotel. Her chambermaid on going to awaken her, found her lying insensible, with a fractured skull She is not expected to recover. The police are unable to trace thp miscreant

VICTIM DIES. ■'Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, March 15. Lady White, the victim of the West End hotel outrage has succumbed to her injuries.

HUNT RACE

LONDON, March 14

Prince Henry, riding his own horse Iclan 111, finished second at the Grafton Hunt point to point race after leading to the last fence, over a three and one-eighth miles course.

FRENCH DEBT TO U.S.A. WASHINGTON, March 14

The New York “Times” Paris correspondent has interviewed Premier Poineaire, who declared that thte position of France as regards her war debt to the United States is simple. What France owes, she has no wish or intention to repudiate. She will pay when she can. If at any future time the United States should renounce her right to these payments, France would acknowledge such a decision with gratitude, hut she is not basing her policy or any such eventuality.

war debts. NEW YORK, March 14 The United States has been assured by the Allies that all the American rights to compensation for the military occupation of Germany out of the German reparations have been reserved. Tlius the reports that the Allies intended to disregard the United States in the appropriation of the occupational charges, out of Germany’s latest reparation instalment, have proved unfounded.