BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. BOTTOMLIiY A ROGUE. LONDON, Juno, 1. “Truth” states:— “Bottomley’s sentence rids Parliament, and public, life, and English journalism of a disgrace, which ought never to have been tolerated. This plausible, clever, cunning rogue has duped all kinds and condiions of people. This country often lias use for dirty instruments in war time. Bottomley’s services, as a professional patriot, might have been worth the handsome fees which lie received for such services, but the British Government ought to have hud the courage to intervene when they saw him, after the war, raking in hundreds of thousands of pounds by means of his bond clubs, on the palpable false pretence that the investors would enjoy the security of the State.”

BLAKE’S FLIGHT DELAYED. PARIS, May 31. Blake’s machine is being repaired. A new prbpellor, from England, is to replace the one damaged in the landing at Marseilles. It is expected at Paris on Thursday. The flight will be resumed in a few days.

ASTONISHING TRAGEDY. PARTS, June 1

An astonishing accident happened at Mortiav in a railway tunnel, on the Swiss frontier. A goods train n ils compelled to stop in the tunnel, and seven men, consisting of the drivers, stokers and brakesmen, were suffocated to death, owing to the poor ventilation. The tragedy was only discovered when a passenger train collided with the goods train. Tile driver got down to see what was the matter, and found the whole crew of the goods train were dead.

GERMAN PRESS VIEWS/ BERLIN, June l

The German Press generally is adversely crit’icising the German Reparation Note, and it is already suggested that a political crisis will arise in that connection when the Reichstag icsumes after the Whitsun recess. Today’ the Peoples’ Party supported the Junkers in a no-confidence motion, which the Reichstag nevertheless defeated by a substantial majority. The “Deutsche t Allgemeinea Zeitung” (Stinnes’s organ) declares the German Note is the most perilous and dishonouring one to Germany ever issued. A NIGHT FLIGHT. (Received this - day at 9.50 a.m.) PARIS. June 1.

General Branckness’ night flight was a complete success. He returns tonight.

NOT CLEAR

June 1. The “Echo de Paris” states the Bankers’ Committee find the situation created by Germany’s note insufficiently clear and decided to ask additional information.

BIG FIRE DAMAGE. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, June 1

A fire completely destroyed Nederlandsce Fabriek, extensive engine works near Amsterdam. The damage is estimated at ten million, gilders. A thousand workers are repdered idle.

CORN CROP FATES. ‘RIGA. .Tune 1

Russia’s corn supply is jeopardised bv the destruction of the winter crop in many districts, notably the Governments of Petrograd and Novgorod.

ACTOR DEAD. LONDON, June 1. Obituary'.—Rutland Barrington, the tictor. . FARMERS PROTEST. TyONDON, June 1. The National Farmers’ Union has rne. moralised Government. protesting against the depletion of the countryside where a shortage of farm hands is already acute. Australian and Canadian immigration policies are calculated to benefit the Dominions at the expense of British Agriculture, The surplus population which the Dominions do not accept, exists only in cities and towns. The memoralists declare British agriculture is losing its youngest and most skilful lund workers. British food production must decline in consequence.