BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. STOLEN ARMS. DARING RAID AT QUEENSTOWN. LONDON, April 3. A party of Republicans boarded a tug in Queenstown harbour and held up the crew with revolvers. They seized the vessel anil steamed her to Cork, where she berthed and unloaded a large quantity of booty, comprising rifles and ammunition, for which 100 lorries were waiting. They loaded the nrrtrs and departed unhindered. A destroyer afterwards recaptured the tug.

GALLIPOL LONDON, April 3,

In the House of Commons, Sir Newton Moore asked Mr Chamberlain if the British Government would consult with Australia and New Zealand before handing over Gallipoli to Greece. Mr Chamberlain said that he fully recognised the interest which Australia and New Zealand had in Gallipoli, but the proposals made by the 1* oreign Ministers’ Conference at Paris would not vary the arrangements regarding Gallipoli that were rand* under the Sevres Treaty.

A BILL FOR IMMIGRATION. LONDON, April 3. In the House of Commons, Mr Chamberlain replying to a question, said lie hoped that the Government’s proposed Empire Emigration Bill would be intro duced before Easter. THE SURPLUS WOMEN. LONDON, April 4. The director of Emigration for the Church nrniy in a letter to the press discusses Sir M. Rider Haggard’s contention that the sexes should be balanced, and that provision should be made f'oi‘ families in all the emigration schemes. He points out that these views are idealistically true'. The immigration policy, however, lie adds is not made in London, but in the Dominions. Nevertheless, if Britain is to be a partner in the immigration schemes, she can reasonably claim some voice in their conception and their execution.

'COMMUNIST PARTY. LONDON, April .3

A report states that M. Trotsky, addressing the Communist Party Congress said that the main work of the Communist Party now is the training of a hew generation. Should Bourgeoise'•Europe, he said, attack them again, and refuse to set up a New Economic policy calculated to establish peaceful business relations with Russia then they would probably again introduced a terror more pitiless than, during the late war.

ENGINEER ING LOCKOUT. LONDON, April 3. A vote of 80 per cent, of the membership of the Tytiside engineers resulted in a hip; majority against a reduction in pay.

LLOYD GEQRGE MEETS PARTIES. • LONDON, April 4. The negotiators in connection with the engineering lock-out have accepted an invitation to confer with Air Lloyd George. SWEDISH LOCKOUT. STOCKHOLM, April 3. The Swedish papermakers have been locked out. The lock-out is only partial. There *» some likelihood of its ending this week.

THE SIAMESE TWINS. (Received This Hay at 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 4. A post mortem examination shows the operation separating the Siamese twins would have been fatal. They Were joined at the spine. It was also showli that there was no doubt that Rosa was the mother of the boy Fraiiz;

It was first reported that a remarkable surgical case had been disclosed at Chicago in connection with the Siamese twins, Rosa and Josefn Rlazek, "ho are forty-two years old. Roth were ill, Josefa being on the verge of death fro jaundice. Physicians said that the death of one would cause the death of the other, and surgeons proposed to perform an operation in an attempt t free Rosa immediately upon Jcsein s death. A later message intimated that both of them had died wit ui fifteen minutes of o..ch, other. Rosa had a 12ye'fif son: Her husband, who was a Bohemian, wtis killed in t;.e war. Josepfa wfts unmarried. There have been many instances of twins joined together together by ligaments at various parts of the body, the most notable being the ‘Siamese twins,” Eng and Chang, born of Chinese parents ill Siam in 1811, having their bodes united by a hand oi Hes.i stretching from the end of one breastbone to the same place in the opposite twin. They lived until Ed, the one surviving the oilier two hours and ahalf only, and then dying from the effects of shock in a heart already weak. Rosa and Josefa were Bohemians, united by a lignpient at the base of the spine.

MUSIC HALL STRIKE. : DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL ITEM. LONDON, April 3. Two minutes before the curtain rose at the Palladium and at 11 other suburban music halls, owned by the Gillliver Circuit, the entire orchestra struck. The strike is owing to the management reducing conductors’ salaries without consulting the Musicians’ Union. The music halls continued with pianos, and, where no pia.no was available and dances were necessary, the performers hummed the tune. i

JAPS LEAVE SIBERIA. TOKIO, April 3. The paper “Asnhi Shimban” has announced tha.t the Japanese Cabinet have decided on the immediate evacuation of Siberia. The newspaper adds that the representatives of Darien Stale have beep informed of Jappn’«j iutentipn?.