BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

GABLE NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A SWIM. PARIS, Aug. 20. Nearly a million people witnessed a five mile swim through Paris, won by Reyferol of Bordeaux, in 117 minutes. Strhener, an Italian, was second.

unemployment. LONDON, Aug. 20. Mr Thomas, a member of the Commons, addressing the railwaymen at said that unemployment could * only be settled by labour attaining power and changing fundamentally Britain’s foreign policy. We are suffering from the blind, silly policy puisued at Versailles.

IN LORRAINE. PARIS, Aug. 20. M. Poincaire in unveiling a war memorial at Priaucourt, Lorraine, said —You who suffered so much from relentless enemy’s invasion, naturaßy cannot understand that there should List anywhere iq .the world people blind enough to advise us to all on the authors of these outrages to go punished or to abandon the ties Germany owes our martyred ieß . We shall know how to insist 0 Germany repairing the damage on

WOMEN’S OLYMPIA. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) V PARIS, Aug. 20. The result of the. women’s olympiad was —Britain •50 points, America Prance 29 Czechoslovakia 12, Switzer l»d 12 "'W'' 1 ” were broken.

INDIAN FRONTIER(Received this day at 10.16 a.m.)v DELHI, Aug. 21. galmon’d, whe has been touring the frontier, states India is woefuly hind the times as regar s * equipment, but is improving, andL i few months will see seventy active m. chines. He is of opinion hat hundred active machmes w R - rese will meet the requirements o ho fr<m tier The bomb supply is amp . £ he said, an efficient air force on the frontier would be able SSSSr mi Slmond r i?avis beginning of September, to take command of all the forces.

ENVER PASHA’S death. (Received this day a> 12.25 p.nr) ' DELHI, August 22. The death of Enver Pasha from bayonet wounds created little comm - The press dismisses it with a sli SSLSS and the statement that one of Us few good traits was an nucompromising hostility to Bolshcvis,, The Afghan Foreign Mmistei has BU ed a statement to newspapers explaining the Afghan Government s attitude towards Bokharan, and stating the reorganisation of the civil adminstration and military forces m the Afghan provinces, coinciding with the Bokharan disorders did not mean Aiffm - encea between Russia and Afghanistan. The latter did not wish to create trouble with friendly neighbours, Russia and Bokhara. He further considers the Bokharan disturbances as a kind of internal disorder, wherein Russia and Afghanistan have no right to interfere. Afghanistan remains neutral. She has no idea of a world conquest. The Foreign Minister concluded by expressing confidence that Russo-Afghan relations will daily be directed towards strengthening freedom and welfare in Bo'!harn find China.

AN AMBUBH. DELHI, August 21. Y Teheran oa-ble states two hundred and fifty troops despatched by the Arnhistan Government were ambushed m DokTTara mountains nnd practically annihilated.

SEAPLANE MISSING. DELHI, August 21

The aviators Malins and. MacMillan, in a seaplane, set oft from Lahore on Saturday morning for Akyab, in Buima, a four hours’ journey. Since then no news has been received from them. Wireless is being broadcasted to all vessels. The worst is feared, and it is suggested that a special vessel be dispatched to search.

MISSING AIRMEN. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) DELHI, Aug 21. MacMillan and Malins had two hundred miles of sea to traverse between Calcutta and Akyab, a heavy wind, culminating in a. storm with obscuring clouds fbllowed thleir departure. It is thought that possibly they were driven to land on the Burma coast, where communication is most difficult, Vessels that have arrived at Chittagong from Akyat, report they saw no signs of the aviators. A Government search steamer has been despatched.

A RAILWAY DISASTER. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 21. A morning train, conveying five hundred workmen from London to Milton range halted at a station two miles beyond Gravesend, where the London County Council was carrying out an extensive road construction scheme. It overran the platform at Milton which was temporary, and has no signal ho:: owing to fog. Workmen crossing the line after leaving the train on the wrong side,, nnd did not notice a light engine approaching which killed one. and cut off another’s foot. During the confusion, a second workmen’s trnin, in the absence of a signal telescoped the three rear carriages of the stationary train, wherein workmen were awaiting its return to the platform, and were buried beneath the debris. Three were lulled and fourteen injured. Some workmen, leaping from the train fell into a canal adjoining the line.

SOVIET FLEET. COPENHAGEN, Aug 21

The Soviet Fleet is engaged in naval manoeuvres on a large scale in the Gulf of Finland. All classes from battleships to submarines are participating revealing that the Bolshevist naval strength is greater than was supposed.