BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION ; STRIKERS RESUME, s. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) | LONDON, Sept. 12. ! Thirty sorters resumed work in l'ub , lin. 1 Shots were fired in Amiens street r ., post office and one man was won uied ;o The strike committees headquarter.were searched and occupied by temps, )( who dispersed picquets. ',l MANDATES CONTROVERSY. LONDON, September 11. u The Australian Press A.ssodintion’s 1- correspondent at Geneva stales: jus- ” tice Rich (Australian delegate) was , among those present at a meeting of the Constitutional Committee of the League at Geneva. The committee decided to remit the Mandates Commission’s report on the administration of the mandates to the '■ sub-committee, comprising representatives of all mandatory powers, including Australia. New Zealand, Britain, j. France, South Africa, Belgium, Havti, and also of Italy, as the latter is now J the mandatory power for Norway, because Dr Nansen (the author of the s resolution) will he the eh airman of the new sub-committee. 5 Dr Nansen has informed the Press that the object of the resolution was to 2 take the matter out of the League Council’s hands, and to transfer it to the League Assembly, for the purpose of ensuring a general discussion when the Mandates Committee submits its report. 1 THE lIAMMONIA WRECK. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) LONDON .Sept. 12. . Bearing the Hammonin’s 380 res- ■ cued passengers the Kinfams Castle arrived at Southampton. Capt. Day 1 interviewed, said wlum he sighted the sinking ship, the exhausted passengers were clinging to the half submerged lifeboats and rafts, drifting about the ship. The rescue was carried out with great difficulty, owing to heavy seas. One lifeboat having disembarked seven passengers was stove in. All i hands were saved. Hd had not witi nessed such tragic scenes in fifty ; years. i A member of the crew said Hie first man up the ladder 'was a German ■ fireman, who nearly upset the collapsed boat in his hurry to get aboard, j Another boat came alongside full of i water, wherein little children clung ■ pitifully together. , W. ,H. .Tupp. the only Englishman aboard the Hammonia said the passengers were blown .about like shuttlecocks. The sea was mountainous. He hurried on deck, being awakened by shrieks and stampeding, to find the starboard gunwale almost, touching the water and passengers clinging to the stanchions or anything else they could grasp. He pulled several women and children out of tile water. An in.'ly rush for boats was mostly by Spaniards. lie assisted the German i officers to keep them at buy. while the women and children were put in tile boats, several of which were smashed or cupsized. ; Tlie Captain of the Hammonia said so far as lie knew all were saved except eight sailors and seven passengers. He attributed disaster to the terrible weather, seas breaking, over and steadily filling the ship. He !elt ; Hie ship seven minutes before she ; sank. j Other estimates put the loss of file at between thirty and sixty. LOSS OE LIFE. 1 (Received this day tit 1.30 p.m.) 1 LONDON, Sept. 12. Tlie Soldier Prince which went to th ■ Hammonia's rescue reports two boats containing thirty women and children capsized, none escaping. i ANGORA STATEMENT, i (Received this day jF 9.50 a.m.) | ,ROME. Sept. 12 A representative of Angora Gnto'iinient denies the statement that tin Kemalists have concluded a secret agreement with France to provide ' arms and ammunition. He added that the Nationalist Government prefers to deal direct with the Greeks, hut "ill not object to any meetings, lie suggested tho Allies should establish preliminary peace terms. ; MANUFACTURE OE GASSES. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) | LONDON, Sept 12. I Doctor Hnrker before the British I Assoc-iaiton said tlie German manufaej tore of gas producing chemicals, parI tieularly nitrogen would phicu her in a prominent prominent position in the even tot' another war. Germany !in 1013 consumed two hundred thousand tons of nitrogen, of which half , was imported. Site used forty-five* pel cent, more last year, without meeting tiie demands of agriculturists. A 1 (was produced in Germany. I hough tlie 'Government pleaded bankruptcy. ' the Badisclie Company appeared to have had little difficulty in finding I monev to repair the damage caused in Oppau. In the uvont of another war, Germany would he assured of a basic material for the gigantic production of munitions, and enough fertilizer to enable her to grow most of her own food. Let us benvare while almost ftII of our munition works are being dismantled, that the world is not caught napping again. Departure. —From table Bax, Ingenna. MANDATE FOR PALESTINE. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) CAIRO. St pt. 12 •V message from Jerusalem stale: proclamation of the mandate passed n ■ without incident, thanks to olnbm.it precautions throughout the count . Sir Samuel took the oath at the Council Hall, former I v a German hcspila-, in the presence of a brilliant asse.ah.t expressing the hope that the »"lis regime would mark an Aral, an Jewish revival. When Britan. h i down her trust she would leave 1 a -- tine papulous,. prosperous and sU--governing, worthy of the K I2 ‘‘' 2S epoch of the past. A «t-,ke nl <■» and conveyances nearly "l )( t .riiests Government transport ot guests threatened to cancel the snk licenses and successfully ate it..l th danger. RETIREMENT DENIED. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m ) LONDON, Sept. 12. Bullock denies the report that he iretiring. LONDON, Sept. 12 1 Aberdeen University conferred the > doct.irshio laws on Queen Mary.