BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1922, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A SCHOONER WRECKED. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) SUVA,, August 17. The motorship Hauraki wirelessed last night that the American schooner Henrietta had become a total wreck on July 27th. on Mukulailai, one of the Ellice group, and she had picked up all the crew. The Henrietta loaded copra at Levuka and Rotuma. for San Francisco. The copra was insured. A COTTON DISEASE. SUVA, August ',17. A suspected case of coll worm in. cotton has been found in Vitilevu Island.

GERMANY DEFAULTS. iikuter’s telegrams. .Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) BERLIN, August 16. The Government has addressed notes to British, French, Italian and Belgian Governments, declaring that owing to foreign currency requirements for urgently needed necessaries of life and the fall of the mark, it is unable to meet the clearing house payment of two millions sterling due to-day.

300 TREATIES. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) GENEVA, August 16. Hitherto the League of Nations has registered three hundred treaties including a hatch of sixty just received from Germany, the chief whereof terminates war with the United States. Two others came from Japan, arising out of the Washington decisions and concerned Yap and Shantung.

A RECRUIT’S MISTAKE. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) PARIS August. 16. A young gendarme recruit strolling near Vernon, arrested a stronger without papers, on suspicion of being a rogue and vagabond. On reaching the station two miles distant, the prisoner telephones to a prooureur and it was then ascertained he was M. Briand, the ex-Preinier. The latter took the misadventure good humoredly and entertained the gendarme in a nearby cafe

THE LARGEST AIRSHIP. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) BERLIN, Aug 16. The world’s largest airship, cabled on 7th March is being Imilt at Fricdriohnven for United States. Il will carry forty passengers and a crew of twenty, together with food and fuel for a long voyage. In view of the Roma and R. 38 disasters it will he capable of tisytg non-inflammable helium gas. as well as hydrogen.

NAVAL TREATY. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) TDK 10. Aug 10. The official naval statement has ordered the removal 01, turrets from various doomed warships, - which will then await further orders, pending the coming into force of the provisions of naval treaty. The Foreign Office has denied that Japan is preparing to approach Britain and America to proceed with the final scrapping of navies regardless of the Freneh-Itnl-ian delay.

CHITA AND JAPAN. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) TOKIO, August 16. Japan has formally agreed to meet the Moscow Government on an equal footing at the coming Conference. According to Antono, who is acting as gobetween for Tokio and Chita, the question of recognition of Moscow appears certain to arise when a discussion on fisheries convention takes place. Chita is acting co-ordinately with Moscow, not subordinately. It is expected an agreement will readily he reached, after which Chita, will immediately proceed t'> occupy Vladivostoek, eliminating the White Administration, and expects to receive sufficient financial support from Moscow to carry on the administration. Antono says the question of the safety of lives and property of Japanese in Siberia will he pledged, provided Japan reciprocates to Russia.