BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN ANDN-.Z. CABLE ASS.H tATION. BRITISH UNEMPLOYED. (Received this day at 10.10 a.m.) LONDON. June 8 Unemployed in Britain, on 20th Alay, numbered 1,471,600. It was th,' time for over a year, that tin C had fallen below a million and a ball in number. It was over two millions m June last year.

CHOLERA IN RUSSIA. MOSCOW, luiie 8. The newspaper “Pro Vila” reports cholera is spreading in Russia ground thrice faster than las- ><•'' » epidemic. TWO VESSELS I’l Lf. AO ED. (Received this day at 10.10 a.m.) PARIS. .1 mi" 8 It is reported from Constantinople that two Italian vessels were re.ontlj Pillaged and the passengers and i ' robbed at Batum. by ennssanes oi e Soviet Extraordinary Commission. Mates the total loss is estimated at nine million francs.

THE QREST’S JOURNEY. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, dime s - Commander Wild reports from South Georgia that lie hoped to leave during Mav for Tristan da Ounlia and Gourli Island, spending a week m each P n weather permit tinrg in order to thornutrillV survey them. I lie Quest na been c-onled and refitted. Kxtensive geological and biological surveys in northern and western portions ol h gia group were completed and thi> have also taken soundings of the se. ton" memory. iieforo .lor''' 1 " 10 - A " bands are well.