BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

IUBTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.

i AN AGREEMENT. (Received This Day at 12.25 p.m.) I TOKIO, April 10. ! The Dairen agreement between Jap an and Chita, State, signed that Chita agrees not to establish a Communist Stte and recognises all agreements made between Japanese army and various far east administrations. It concedes equal rights in the Amur Navigation and undertakes to take every nonwarlike means of unifying Siberia. It guarantees the safety of lives and property of all foreigners, dismantles the defences of Vladivostock, and throws the port open and grants to foreigners necessary for commercial concessions in land leases, permits the foreign development of iron mines, and timber resources with the right of export of products; to refrain from Communist propaganda, in Japanese territory and arranges for the withdrawal of Japanese troops.

THE ARMSTRONG CASE. (Received This Day at 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, April HOFor the second week of the Armstrong case interest is maintained. The case is not expected to finish before Friday. The Court was crowded to hear the opening of the defence. Curtis Bennettsubmitted that though the defence had not the onus of proving it, the probability was that Mrs Armstrong suicided, when she returned home from tho asylum to find that she was becoming worse mentally and physically, and she prepared to do something desperate. The prosecution entirely failed to show the motive for murder. Justice Darling was of th e opinion that this opened an entirely new case. Armstrong gave his evidence in a calm clear manner. His relations w<i> his wife, always were of the happiest. She first showed delusions in August. Shortly afterwards the doctor suggested the removal of razors and ■ revolvers from the bedroom, which was done. There was not the slightest truth in the suggestions that he administered arsenic,