BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

CABLE NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ARABS SLAUGHTER WAHABIS. CAIRO, Aug 17. Reports from Jerusalem state that 12(X) Wahabis attacked Arabs in the neighbourhood of Annam. The latter repelled the invaders whose casualties amounted to 1000 killed and wounded. The Arabs had sixty men killed.

BYE ELECTION. LONDON, Aug. 19. The South Hackney election resulted : Captain Erskine Bolst (Coalitionist) w 9118. . Mr Holford Knight (Labour) 9046. Majority 72. The rejected ballot papers number 104, of which 90 were' intended for Mr Knight. These were rejected because they bore the words written on them “Good Luck,” or references to Socialism.

INDUSTRIAL DEPRESSION. LODNON, Aug. 19. The Federation of General AVorkei s Conference, have passed a resolution expressing their dissatisfaction that the Government has failed to relieve the industrial depression and unemployment in Britain and condemning the adoption of the doles system, instead of the providing of remunerative and beneficial work. Mr Ben Tillett said that he would like to induce the world’s workers to down tools. He said that until financier* arranged their differences and established exchanges, there was no chance of the cost of living falling. “War in viler form than the great •war,” he declared, “is now imminent. It will not necessarily be an open war, hut a war by paralysis.” Rt Hon J. R. Clynes (Labour M. 1.) was of the opinion that no internal strike, or industrial violence of any kind, would solve the cost of living problem, which must he approached from their class-party standpoint.

GERMAN MARK SLUMP. LONDON, August 19. The German mark haß fallen lower. The latest exchange rate on Berlin is 5,560 marks to £l. FRANCO-RUSSIAN TRADE. PARIS, Augus 19. Widespread interest in being taken in the prospective meeting between M. Heriot and M. Tchitclierin (Russia) re .trade with Russia. The former is one of the Radical Socialist Leaders. He is the originator of the Lyons Fair, and one of France’s -V most able business organisers. He intends to go to Russia, The French Government announces that his mission is in no way an official one.

QUBR.Y TO GREECE. ATHENS, August 18. Greece has been asked whether, after the transmission of the last Allied note, the application of new administrative measures in Asia-Minor had been adjourned. It is stated that a reply is made in the negative, and that the application of the new measures would he hastened. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 19.

The Allied and Greek commissioners have signed an agreement establishing a neutral zone four miles between the Greek and Turkish outposts.

BAN ON CATHOLIC PRESS. LONDON, August 18. The Northern Government of Ulster has forbidden the “Irish Catholic” newspaper to circulate in Ulster for a month owing to its attacks on the Judges and Magistrates of the Ulster judiciary.

CAPA BLANCA STILL WORLD’S BEST. LONDON, Aug 19. The chessmasters’ tournament was ended with Onpablancn, the Cuban, as the winner. He has had thirteen wins out of a possible of fifteen. Alekhire was second with 11}; other scores being: Fidmar eleven wins; and Rubenstein 10}; Watson (Australia) was fifteenth, with 4} wins.

BEVAN ON HIS TRIAL. LONDON, Aug. 1!) Gerald Bevair wns charged at the Guildhall Police Court with publishing false balance sheets of the City Equitable Insurance Company in 1919-21; ulso publishing a prospectus containing false statements, also fraudulent conversion of money; and with obtaining money by false pretences by inducing people to take shares in the Company. He was remanded for a week.

FATAL BOMB EXHIBITION. BERLIN, Aug. 18. Advices from Dantzig state at a bomb dropping exhibition at a Polish aerodrome at Putzig, a bomb fell among a crowd of spectators, ten being killed and fifty injured.

A BRUTAL MURDER, SPECIAL TO GUARDIAN. j

(Received this day at 11.30 n.m.) i LONDON, Aug 20. | The “Daily Mail’s” Vienna corres- j pondent reports the dialiolical murder j of a woman known as the “Merry | ,__ Widow of Graz’’ has, been revealed by ! the arrest ‘of five people, including . a ' wealthy timber merchant, Steiner. ; The Merry Widow was separated from A her husband and traded privately in furs and jewellery. She wa* invited to tea at Steiner’s flat. A cord was thrown round her neck and she was strangled. The body was cut up and the mummified head, hands, feet and trunk were found in different parcels. The murder wa s the result of a plan to enable the participants to divde the property In the flat. A previous attempt failed.

MURDERER. EXECUTED. LONDON, Aug 19, l Alla way has been executed for the ‘ murder of Miss Wilkins. boxing. LONDON, August 19. Beckett meets Noran in London at the end of September and Orpentier nt the end of October.