BRITISH & FOREGIN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREGIN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN A.MII N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION SUN yat sen defeated. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) CANTON, August 3. Chen Chuing Miki forces defeated Sun Yat Sen’s driving them out of Chiu Chow and captured two thousand rifles, twenty one machine guns, nine cannon, Sun lost three thousand men in killed, wounded and captured. ACCEPTING TERMS. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) CHICAGO, August 2. Striking railway shopman have accepted generally Mr Harding’s proposal cabled on August Ist.

RADIO TELEPHONY. LONDON, Aug 1. it sub-committee on radio telephony appointed by the Imperial Confer/ence decided thnlt development, for long range s is in an extremely elementary stage, and they can see no line of development likely to lead to its establishing on a commercial basis within a measureable 'period. Ibe best prospects are for ranges up to two hundred miles, but the committee ■loanivot 'recommend telephony as a substitute for other means of telegraphic comm un iention.

BLAKE’S FEY. LONDON. Aug 1. Blake arrived at Amballa at seven o'clock last night.

EOYIT ENQUIRY. (Received this day lit 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Ails' 2. At the Egypt Enquiry, Captain Carr, of the Indian Army, su'd I"' noticed a native with a boat hook pushing off in a lifeboat. Carr shouted: “Stop man,” but lie took no notice. Witness jumped from the hurricane deck to the falls,, and got into the after end of the boat. He gave orders to all to sit down and remain quiet. The natives started to jostle him, so lie drew his revolver and ordered then, forward. The mail with a boat hook swung it in his direction, and witness warned him if lie did not sit down he would shoot them. He shot over their heads, and the natives

sat down. , Colonel Franklyn in an affidavit described how a boat containing ladies capsized through the natives lumping therein. The natives were not vim lent, but terror stricken.

ITALIAN STRIKE FIASCO. 'Received this day at 11.3!) a.m.) ' ROME, ‘ Aug. 2. The strike was a big fiasco as the workers’ failed to respond to the orders of their executive. The strike nowhere wrts general .except in Ancona. All other important centres, including Florence, Milan and Turin are (working as usual. In isolated cases, where the ruilwaymen responded to the strike call, the Fascists replaced them and it is expected the Fascists will keep the jobs. The leaders of the Communist Socialist parties are contemplating resignation in view of the disagreement regarding thenorders. The success of Fascists created a great impression.

DETAILS OF DISASTER. PARIS, August 2. It is feared that the Txmrdes pilgrim train death roll is heavier than the early estimates show. Both trains weie full of passengers. One had almost negotiated a steep incline, when the couplings broke about the middle. The reair part of the train ran away, and collided with a following train, telescoped the carriages and derailed the engine and a number of the coaches of the second train. The impact smashed the gas reservoirs and the lamps set fire to the woodwork. Number of the passengers were burnt to death, and . othes were killed while leaping from : the windows of the runaway carriages. The dead include two priests, two nuns and two crippled children. FACTORY EXJLOSION. • . MADRID, August 1. j There were seven killed and 20 injured by the explosion of n dynamite partridge in an iron foundry at Cinda. renl, followed by a fire. 4 EMIGRATION TO U.S.A. WASHINGTON, July 31. i •"v The harsh, unjust manner in which th 0 American immigration law sometimes works out has again been demonstrated by the case of a young Belgian woman. She has been living with her husband in Chicago, but recently she made a trip to Belgium to bring back their 18-year-old bo.v, who was born in Belgium. The husband had already announced his intention to become an American citizen. The woman and son arrived in New York on June 30, or 210 minutes before the end of the fiscal year, under which the 1922 quotas are reckoned. The Immigration Board has ruled that *‘ v Vue boy cannot he admitted under the 1922 Bclf'im quota, and must return to Europe and come thence rgain to the United States, and be admitted under the 1923 quota fo Belgium. The fact that the woman has already lived in the United States lms made no difference to the son’s esae. She should he admitted ttjone but the non must ,j)0 sent back,