BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A SHIPPING DISASTER. BUENOS AYRES, June 5. Later details •of the Villa ’ Franca wreck show that the passengers were roused at 1 o’clock in the morning, hilt just as they rushed on deck, the ship was rent asunder hy an explusio'n! and. she sank near the shore. Many of the passengers and the crew arc still imprisoned below. A revised list shows that 7fi arc dead.

A BRITISH PROPOSAL. NEW YORK, June 5. Sir Charles Higliam, addressing a gathering of advertising men, expressed a bo|y: that Britain and the United States would become allied so as to prevent Germany from regaining her place in the trade of the world, and especially in Russia, which be called a gold mine.

UNAPPRECIATED HONOR. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) CAPETOWN, June 6

* The “Cape Times” states Robinson’s 4 peerage lias been received with spons tnneous disapproval throughout the Enion and is likely to have a regret--3 table effect on the loyal affection of 3 both races for the Royal house. The pper suggests that if such an insult to South African opinion is ever repeated on the initiative of the British Government, the Union Parliament will do well to express its views about the grant of peerages to South Africans by formal resolutions, as the Canadian Parliament has already done. AUSTRIAN ELECTIONS. (Received this day at 11.30 a.i11.) BUDAPEST. June 6. The elections resulted in the maintenance of the Horthv Bethlcn regime. They are also noteworthy for a Socialist incursion into Parliamentary life for the first, time. Legitimists who favour Karl’s son did fairly well, but Cabinet suffered a moral defeat, only three out of eleven being re-elected. A WAGE CUT. (Received this day at 11.30 a.i11.) NEW YORK. June 6. Chicago Railway Labour Board has ordered a new .wage cut of eight per cent for freight carmen and shop mechanics. affecting four hundred thousand and approximating sixty million dollars yearly. The order is to be effective on Ist July. A minority of members of the Board disagreed with the decision, declaring it was made without consulting human needs. i

AN* ACTRESS DEAD. (Received this day at 11.30 a.iri.l NEW YORK. June (1. Obituary at Pittsburg—Lilian Bussell, the famous American actress, aged sixty one. Death followed injuries suffered at sen during n trip with her husband to Europe, to investigate immigration conditions for President Harding.

JAPANESE POLITICS. TOKIO, June (i. Cabinet lias resigned, ITALY AND SOVIET. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) ROME, June (>. The Soviet has signed a contract with I tad inn agricultural and metallurgical organisa.tioiis. The former sends immedately fifty thousand farmers to cultivate two hundred thousand acres in Don Region. The metallurgical asrocintion furnishes the necessary iniplenents.

R USSIAN SENTENCES. MOSCOW. June (>. Tikhon cabled .May 9th. with two other ecclesiastics, was sentenced to live years’ imprisonment and the property of the cloister whereto he belonged was confiscated. CREEK PROTEST. (Received this day at 1.5 p m.) ATHENS, June (i. It is reported that Government have protested to the League of Nations and Council of Ambassadors respecting the persecution of Greeks in Adbania, declaring if it continues Government will be compelled to Lake military action against Albania. NEW YORK, June 6. The Boston newspaper “Christian Science Monitor” London correspondent stales Italy and Turkey have nogo. .ated a secret treaty unknown to the Allies. Italy agreeing diplomatically to help the restoration of Turkey's prewar territorial status, in exchange for economic concessions in Turkey, and further mice of Italy’s ambitions in Balkans, by means of an impending new secret Ttirkish-Bulg;irian-Albanian alliance. The correspondent- adds that the Treaty is the most important part of the so-called commercial Turkish-Ital. inn Treaty to which Mr Chamberlain referred in the House of Commons on 3rd May, but the political portion was not revealed. I