MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 August 1922, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

REPAIRING THE WAR ZONE. PARIS, August 6. Great progress has been made at immense expense with the reconstruction of the Somme battle area, almost all of which is cleared of shells, whereof 245 thousand tons were removed. The trenches were filled in, and twenty five million square metres of barbed wire entanglements cleared. It was ostimat. ed in 1918 that the area was beyond habitation and was known as the * zone. Thanks largely to the affection of peasants for the soil, it has been reduced fo one seventh of what it was. Chiefly round Tliiepva], Longueval, Guillen/nt. Thiepval will not be rebuilt. Pozieres after all will b« rcconstrm red:

CANTEEN PROFITS. LONDON, Aug 7

Worthington Evans states that interim payments on account of the war canteen profits paid to Australian and Imperial forces amounted to £241,000, Canadian £320,000. Steps were being taken to verify the final allocation of the balances, due to the Dominions.

THE CONFERENCE, LONDON, Aug. (5

M. Poincare and M. Schanzel arrived at Victoria Station where they were met by Lloyd George and other members of the Cabinet.

BOOK BY LLOYD GEORGE.

LONDON, Aug 6.

Tlie “Daily Telegraph” gays it is reported Air Lloyd George has been offered eighty thousand sterling for a book dealing with the war. Tlie Premier has been turning over the matter and came to the conclusion that such a book might be published while he was in office. As Parliament has adjourned for fourteen weeks, ho has leisure to begin the task.

FASCISTI HUNTERS.

LONDON, Aug 6,

Tlie “Daily Mail’s”'- Rome correspondent states the Fascisti are jubilantly parading the streets of Milaii, Genoa and Aneoma, singing war songs while bands of Fascisti are hunting Communists and Anarchists, high and low in the surrounding towns and villages. Several thousand reinforcements have arrived at Ancona from the neighbouring provinces Communists destroyed part of the electric power transmitting line between Abruzzi and Naples, with the result that all industries in Naples are paralysed, The casualties for two days were thirty killed and hundreds wounded:

LORD NORTHCLIFFE. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Aug 6. Lord Northeliffe’s general condition is much the same. He continues to give rise to grave anxiety.

BALLOON RACE. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) GENEVA, Aug 6. Over fifty thousand spectators watched the start of tlie- Gordon-Ben-uett balloon race in which there were nineteen competitors, three each from Belgium, United States, Italy, and France, and two each fronffGreat Britain and Spain. The wind - at the commencement was in the direction of Austria and Bulgaria. WHITE GUARD OUTRAGE, ROME, August 6, * The Fascisti raided! the Socialist newspaper “Avanti” at Milan, wrecked the editorial department, and set fire t 6 the newsprint store. One Bersagliere and two Fascisti were killed in the ensuing fight.