BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1922, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

CABLE NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. H,O\V IN CZECHO-SLOVAK CHAMBER. PRAGUE, June 25. - Wild scenes occurred in the Czech Slovak Chamber. The speaker’s Order excluding a recalcitrant German Deputy led to a free fight between Czechs and Germans. Blows were exchange!, chairs thrown about, and coats torn off. Scrummage continued until a strong force of police were summoned and restored order, forcibly removing a number of Germans. Several deputies had to he medically treated. —- GONE SMASH. “ the TIMES n SERVICE. LONDON, Juno 25. Known as tile Modern Midas, or Napoleon of Finance, Sir William Hopwood, a cotton mill magnate whose deals'a few years ago aggregated thirty millions, finds a receiving order in bankruptcy .made against him at sixty years of age. He began life as a cotton piecer, and as a reputed millionaire was knighted last year. He made his greatest deals after the armistice in 1919. He bought up 30 mills and everything lie touched turned to gold. His church and charitable gifts totalled fifty thousand. _

A HUGE EIRE. IN HEART OF LONDON. LONDON, June' 25. The Metropolitan Railway power station in the centre of (London has been destroyed by fire. The dariiage is estimated at £500,000. It is believed that an overloaded train was the cause of the derangement of n circuit breaker. ANOTHER SEHttitfS LONDON, June 25. A fire destroyed a range of buildings in Pembroke Dockyard, containing mod. els and drawings of every ship built at the dockyard since its establishment in 1894. PRESERVATION OF ART TREASURES. LONDON. June 25. Tiie Oxford University has appealed to the League of Nations to use its l'lifluence to protect from destruction, arttreasures of Central and Eastern Europe. notably Fadusza, the world-fa-mdus statue, Maria Theresa at Poszony, and other famous statuary in Transylvania.

i; \ iPWAYMF.X’S SECRET A IP) PROTESTS. LONDON, Julie 25. A mass meeting' of railwaymeri at Etiiiihurgif loudly cheered Mr J. H. Thomas’ statement in reference to the late Sir H. Wilson, .which was as f,ol- > lows: “It is our duty to remember that the bullet must not substitute tfid ballot in this country, in which no party can stand up more fearlessly against outrages of this kind than La-. bourites.”

FRENCH OFFICIAL ATTACKED BERLIN, June 25. Jean Guvard. a French official on tlm Reparations Oommisson, was attacked early this morning outside his residence and robbed, of eight thoflsattd marks. He was seriously injured arid was sent to hospital. One of his assailants was arrested.