MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1922, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS

lUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION FASCISTI OUTRAGE AT MILAN. ROME, August 4. Gabrielle d’Annunzio made a speech in Milan following on disturbances there, wherein 50 people were injured. Tho Fascisti then arrested two hundred people. The disturbance was ended by the Fascisti, they storming the municipal buildings. They turned out the Socialist Town Council of Milan. D’Annunzio then addfessed a. vast crowd in the Piazza, from a balcony, in an impassioned poetic speech. He said it was the first time that he had spoken in public since the anguish, grief, shame and glory of the Fiume affair, but the genius of Italy had again taken possession of its people to-day.

SALE OF SYDNEY DOCK. LONDON, August 5. The Australian Press Association understands that negotiations for the sale of Morts Dock to an English company are approaching completion.

CHANNEL TUNNEL. LONDON, August 5

Two hundred and seventeen members of the House of Commons have petitioned Mr Chamberlain, urging the advisableness of constructing the Channel Tunnel at earliest.

PLEASED WITH CZECH STATE. LONDON, August 5

The Commercial Secretary of the British Legation at Prague reports:— “Czecho-Slovakia has won for herself the reputation of being the one State in Central Europe which has set its house in order, and has avoided the evils of the printing press. Caecho Slovakia is a solid, permanent country, and not an ephemeral, artificial creation, destined for extinction as in dependent entity.”

HEART ACTION REVIVED. LONDON, August 6.

A youth, 19 years old, died after an operation at Guys Hospital. The evid. euce at the inquest showed his heart ceased- to heat during the operation, Thereupon a surgeon opened the body, and massaged the heart for fifty Dantes, which then resumed beating. The patient succumbed fourteen hours later.

MANILA SHIPPING STRIKE. MANILA, August 5

The Customs authorities have granted an application by the British shops to carry- cargo mails, and passengeis from Manila to southern ports during the inter-island trip. This is due to the American officers’ strike.

NEAR EAST. WHAT GREECE IS SEEKING. ATHENS, August 4. The Greek Government has sent a reply to the Allies. The reply to the Powers says that Greece had decided to occupy Constantinople in order to obtain a prompt conclusion of peace with Turkey. If the Allied Powers hinder the exercise of Greece’s rights as a.belligerent, they will only make the situation still more complicated. . _ Finally the reply draws the attention of the Allies to the danger of delay in regard to reaching a definite peace, as such delay might only cause fresh cala- _ mitiee for Christians, thus perpetuating the intolerable state of things existing in the Near East. .

\ BRITISH WORLD FLIGHT. LONDON, August 5. The British Air Ministry has informed the Australian Press agent that the world flight referred to by Captain Guest for next-year is to fie the culmination of the project cabled on July 12, hut it is contemplated to make a start next spring. The route followed will be he same as Blake’s.

CHEAPER BREAD. 1 LONDON,- August 5. Mir Blakemore, the former President df" of the National Chamber of Trade, pre- * diets that the price of the quartern loaf now 9sd will he reduced to 6d by the end of the year owing to there being exceptionally big wheat drops in America and Canada.