BRITISH & FOREGIN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1922, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREGIN ITEMS

IUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. SHELLS EXPLODE LONDON, Aug 10. Advices from Lille state a wagon load of live shells, dug up near Maulierge, exploded, five men being missing. Mangled remains were found, but identificaton is impossible. A CREW SAVED. reutek’s telegrams. LONDON, Aug 10. The whole crew of the steamer Quito were picked up and landed at Bremenhaven. / GERMAN SHIPPING LINE. LONDON, Aug. 12. The German-Australian Shipping Lina has resumed its service to Australia. The first steamer, the Harran, left Hamburg yesterday. She travels via South Africa to Australian ports, CHINESE LABOUR GOVERNMENT. PEKING, Aug. 11. J)r Sun Vat Sen’s flight means hi« elimination from the immediate present situation in China, although the fact that he is the leader of the Lilieral element, which is now organising Chinese labour, Dr Sun will probably exert a tremendous influence in the future of China. Cheng Chiun Meng has gained- a victory over Dr Sun which indicates a further weakening of Chang Tso-Lin, and it is'now likely that the north and south of China will compromise. As a result, Cheng Chiung Meng and Wu-Pei-Fu have agreed upon the principal point necessary for a national agreement. Cheng will insist upon a large amount of provincial autonomy being authorised under the permanent legislation that is now being drafted by tbe Chinese Parliament at Peking.

ADVANCE IN AVIATION. PARIS, Aug. 12. Motorless aviation Iras been the subject of a congress of aviation experts at Clermont, in France. At the congress several engineless ' aeroplanes were submitted. Although the duration /' of the successful fights of these ma- ■ , chines did not exceed two minutes each, thus being.less than in recent experiments made with engineless machines in Germany, yet the greatest interest has been aroused in the subject as bringing aviation more into line with the natural fight of birds and also ' lessening the cost and risk of aviation, j It is predicted that a great proportion of the power required for flight will lie obtained in future from the infernal force of the wind, mid that greater safety will he acquired, because the equilibrium will be natural and automatic.

LOSS OF RALEIGH. LONDON, Aug 12. i The Admiralty announces that ten. ’ ar o missing and presumably have lost their lives in the cruiser Raleigh accident in being stranded on Labrador Coast.