MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1922, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

IUBTItALIAN A Nil N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATIO"" IN THE COMMONS. j (Received this ds>y at 9.50 a.m.) , LONDON, July 7. | In the Commons in moving the second reading of the Washington I rcaties Bill ", explained object was to give Government legal powers to carry out certain provisions of the Naval Tieaties. Mr Amery thought there should not be any hesitation in showing the English Parliament was entirely behind this great pact. Mr Asquith said he would have welcorned an agreement to abolish submar- j ine warfare altogether. It was time | we had a similar agreement regarding, land armaments and men. . 1 Mr Amery said he still hoped the Powers outside the five signatanes would come into line. The Bill was read a second time unanimously. A CONSPIRACY CHARGE. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, July 7. Jerome Kearns, a horse trainer, was remanded at Bow Stret for conspiring with Gerald Riviere to obtain a pass port to enable Riviere to abscond from England in December, after committal on Hie charge of which lie was recently sentenced. The police gave evidence that Kearns visited Cook s Tourist Office and filled in an application foim in the name of George Gordon, hearing a fictitious address. PIRACY CHARGE. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) PARTS, July 7. The trial is proceeding at Marseilles of seven long-haired, ragged Georgians, who are charged with alleged pirae, . Evidence was given that they were members of a band of thirty, who were « s,raised as passengers and boai ‘led t French ship Souiral, at Baton.. During the vovage in 1920, when two hour! out from Batum they threatened Cap tain Sparks with revolvers, cut th< wireless, robbed the passengers, stopper the ship and forced the crew to iov them and their plunder ashoie. The) made a haul worth £BO,OOO sterling. H is alleged the pirates conducted the affair with an air of gallantry, and kissa the women’s hands before removing their rings. They left the passengers their small change, even giving son few coins stolen from others.