BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTIIaLIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. INDIAN ARMY OFFICERS DELHI, Aug 31. Over a thousand officers were demobilised owing to the reorganisation of the Indian army. Others have been warned that their services may be dispensed with. The bulk are returning to England and others are proceeding to tlie Dominions, including fifteen to New Zealand. ENVER PASHA. DELHI, Aug 31. Enquiries by the Kliilafat Committee from Anliorian representatives at Roe and Paris contradict the news of Enver Pasha’s death. Similar information is current in Afghanistan. , i AVIATORS ARRIVE. ! DELHI. Aug 31. The aviators Macmillan and Mai ins have arrived in Calcutta. They are rapidly recovering from their recent hardships. They hope to reattempt the flight in 1923.

JEWEL ROBBERIES. LONDON, Aug. 31 In connection with the robbery of ail American woman’s jewels, there have liven several similar robberies, though on a smaller scale, recently, proving that an exceptirnallv clever group' of British and Continental thieves is at work, controlled by a master mind. Considerable sums arc being expended in carefully shadowing p.ople with valuables. Those clever ones haunt society functions. I It is believed that the robbery ol ‘be! American 'woman was committed at. I Calais. The authorities are aware ol , the existence of a clever gang with 1 headquarters at Deauville, which at present is crowded with fashionable people of all nations, and where the thieves, who are mostly cultured and of good personal appearance, move in the best society.

ROBBERIES. I LONDON, Aug 31. | The “Evening News” says in connection with tiie recent jewellery robberies the police possess evidence of a vast organisation, employing ’ brains, wealth, beauty and culture, to achieve the objects. Spies track the victims and accomplices obtain engagements with jewel dealers and merchants in order to keep the principals informed. Men renting country, houses and expensive) motor cars participate. Claims arising out of robberies are so numerous that underwriters are being eonipellcd to increase charges. j

ITALIAN LOAN TO A VST IMA.. ROME. Aug. 31 Cabinet lias decided to grant Austria Liven tv million lire'forthwith, and a further fifty million lire within the next fortnight.

A SPENDTHRIFT COUNCIL. ROME. Aug. 31. The Mayor and Council ol Milan Were deposed from office hv Royal de4roe. A report, declares they carried out a political progi amice detrimental to the city’s interest.-, indulged in lavish expenditure socialising amusements, schools dispensaries and other functions, whilst neglecting real improvements and public utilities. Notwithstanding increased rates, the municipal budget showed a deficit of three hundred million lire. I'ascisla therefore were instilled in taking ovei the administration.

’ LEAGUE Oh’ NATIONS. LONDON. Aug. 31. It lia's been rumoured circumstantially for a few days, that Al.r Lluvd George intends to address the League of Nations at Genoa on disarmament. The “Daily Chronicle’s” well informed lobbyist says: Everything depends .upon the advice of tlfe British delegates. Mr Lloyd George is willing to attend if they think his presence expedient.

\ CARDINAL'S ATTACK. . BERLIN, Aug. 31 Cardinal Lanchaber, concluding an address to the Catholic Congress at .Munich, bitterlv attacked the League of Nations. He said: “Its sole purpose was the strangulation of the economically weak, and fattening A"'!! more those economically sound. Sum a league, lie said, would not bung peace, but a cemetery, to the 'voi’hL The League served only the World Bourse, and it had become a gambling den of the capitalists. Peace, he said, could only come from Rome, and "in. from Aloseow, Versailles, or Genoa.

NEW SUPPLIES. STOCKHOLM. Aug. 31. The Soviet note printing factories are now uinhle to cope with the o<>vorument's increasing demand lor paper mu hies. Swedish aststanic is bciim sought, and one firm nlrem.y delivered notes for three milliards cl roubles, and another has contracted to supply an enormous number.

BRITISH POLITICS. LONDON, Sept. 1. Lord Salisbury, the leader of the Diehard Conservatives, who have been engaged in propaganda for some time jn'the “Morning Post” and elsewhere in favour of the severance ol the l nionists from the Coalition, says, ill a message t> the Unionist Clulis, through out 'the United Kingdom. “Feeling against the Coalition is general throughout the country. Our friends are beginning, to see that, with a little effort the Conservative Party in the next Parliament can retain its freedom and light for clean politics and Conservative principles.”

WHEAT SHORTAGE. PARIS, August 31. Owing to a poor wheat crop, and to the necessity for importing twenty million quintals before the 1923 linrj vest, the French Government has forbidden the use of anything but wholemeal for bread-making throughout Fra nee.

OKI?MANS KX LISTING. ItKOTKH’S TELEUHAMS. (Received this day lit 8 a.in.) PARTS, August :11. It is reported from Strasbourg that between twelve and thirteen hundred (tenuous enlisted in. the French foreign legion during the- past year, and that many are still volunteering daily, ascribing the desire to enlist to poverty and the conditions in Germany.

; STORM DAMAGE. 1 (Received this day at 8 a.m.) PARIS, August 31. A wind storm, accompanied by extraordinarily heavy bail devastated the. vineyards in many districts of south and middle France. The hail in somo places was two ad a half feet deep. Many tobacco plantations were ruined. Swollen rivers in Savoy swept away bridges arid dykes

“THE TIMES.” NORTHCIJ FEE’S INTENTIONS. LONDON, Aug 31. Mr St. Leo Strijehey, writing in “The Spectator,” says that in 1908 Lord Northclitfe contemplated tlve ap pointinent of trustees to carry on “The Times” as a national institution. Air Stracliey suggested the appointment of the Lord Chancellor, the Speilker, the Primate and the ViceChancellor's of Oxford ;in(l Cambridge together with the Editor and Ala nilgo r, in order to represent those elements in the community with which “Tho Times” had licen specially concerned. !t is still unknown whether this idea was adopted in Northclifie’s will.

BRITAIN AND U.S.A. LONDON, Aug 31. The British Government suspended the credentials of the l nited States Consul and Vice-Consul at Newcastle on Tyne because they abused their official positions, to the disadvantage of British interests, by refusing to rise the passports of British passengers to America on the most trivial pretexts unless the passengers agreed to travel in American liners. The consulate and archives have been removed to Hull. SUNDAY SPORT. LONDON August 31. The Rector of Beckenham, who supports Sunday games .invites the worshippers to attend evening service in their sporting attire. He says that his own children will set an example.