BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

WJBTRALIAN AND N.Z. OABLE ASSOCIATION. RUSSIANS’ TRIAL. MOSCOW, July 7. A trial at Petrograd of Priests and others for opposing the requisitioning of church property resulted in eleven being sentenced to death, including Metropolitan Benjamin, a bishflp and several priests and professors. Fiftythree have been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. The Court lias decided criminally to prosecute the Patriarch Tikhon. RUSSIAN FINANCE. THE HAGUE, July 7. The Commission hold a meeting, whereat the Russians were present. Replying to a question regarding the payment of coupons, M. Litvinoff (Russia), said that it would be premature for the Russian delegation to answer this at present, as all would depend upon the credits granted.

M. Sokolakorff was asked how the issues of paper money were made. He replied every three months. '

A financial commission estimated the difference between the receipts and the requirements and made up the deficit by the issue of paper roubles.

FRENCH OPINION. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) PARIS, July 9. Newspapers referring to Selianzers arrival from London, assert he found himself in opposition to the British Cabinet on the questions of the Near East and Tangier. The “Journal” says we may congratulate ourselves on the British attitude, for it gives us the opportunity to remind Italy that France is at one with her in seeking a *■

’ tlement in the Greece-Bulgaria Turkey. : A MYTH. (Received this day at 9.50 a.si.) LONDON. July 8. ’ French scientists, after exhaustive investigations to ascertain whether ootoplasme emanation appeared from n | medium, have reported in the negative. A well-known spiritualist previously insisted that he had seen a living, moving substance emanate from the body of a medium, assume human form, and then vanish. | AFintAN COINAGE. , (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) j CAPETOWN, July 8. i In the Assembly, in introducing the j Coinage Bill, the Minister for Finance | stated for the present gold would not 'he coined. When it was, it would lie the British sovereign with the South j African mint mark. The same coinage | will he adopted as at present, except that the crown and farthing which ; would he drop)H‘d. There was no intention of adopting decimal coinage. AUSTRIAN FINANCIAL DISASTER. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON. July 8. An alarm mg story regarding the state of Austria is contained in a note arldreused by the Austrian Government to the Reparations Commission, seeking r dief from liens on certain revenues possessed by creditor nations. The note states unless relief is allowed im- , mediately, a financial catastrophe will j be inevitable. The crisis was never so j acute. Tt is far more menacing than any preceding one. The Austrian crown I lias shrunk front fifty thousand to the pound to one hundred thousand to the] pound. It soon will he utterly value- . less, and he refused by every hank in the world. This would lead not only to a financial crisis, hut to a social tip- • ltcaval and political collapse. II j neighbouring countries send troops to j restore order, .international jealousies j and the possibility of a conflict will he i aroused. j

PAULS, July 8. The note has greatly impressed the French, and has thrown the Reparations Commission into a state akin to coits'ermition. ADMIRAL DUMARKSQ. MANILA. .Tul yS. The condition of Admiral Dumaresq is most serious. Physicians state he is almost hopeless. A PRESENTATION. (Received this day at 12.25 p.ln.) LONDON, July 9. The Exiles Club presented Sir John Render with an illuminated address to mark the fifty years’ jubilee of the Eastern Extension and Allied cable companies. It contained eight thousand signatures of members of the staffs associated with the company. Insignia of orders held by Pender weie worked out in diamond and platinum. The proceedings also included the inauguration of a lied in Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital, endowed as a memorial to the late Lady Pender.

A BELOTAN AfEAfOTtTAL. 'Received this clay at 12.21) p.m.) LONDON, July 0. Air McWhae represented Australia and Sir Allen, New Zealand, at the ! opening of the Agricultural School at j Brussels to commemorate wartime gifts. Venerable Cardinal Merrier in a speech, marked hy eloquence and pathos, appealed specially to the children to hear in your little hearts for evermore, the feeling of gratitude and effectation for those great Dominions oversea. It was announced that one block would he named after New Zea- j land. Sir J. Allen appealed to keep the ; flame kindled in wartime alive, and : urged that portion of the subscriptions ! he devoted to the endowment of A us- | tralian and New Zealand scholarships j in a school at Brussels. Tile suggestion was enthusiastically received and j is likely to be adopted. LONDON, July 9. | At the unveiling of a portrait of j Field Marshall Wilson at Belfast, Sir j Janies Craig declared Wilson was to- ( tally unconnected with the policy of j the Northern Oovernment. Wilson had ; not a feeling of hatred towards the j south and west of Ireland. He was a j great Irishman, desirous of the peace ] and prosperity of Ireland. Wilson re- j cently only was asked to help to make ; provision to protect Ulster’s boundar- j ies and his disposition of the special ! constabulary consisted a defence which 1 could not he broken down.