BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AIT EVEREST. j " rnE TIMES ” SERVICE i ('Received this dav at 8.30 a.m.) PARTS. Oct 2. I General Bruce, interviewed at .Marseilles, declared while without doubt that Alt Everest cannot easily he conquered, he believed the ascent was not impossible, though it yould roniayn. extra' ordinarily diHicidJi. I’ati ienoe. health and elieerlillness were • needed and n<climiitisation was indispensable. He was satisfied that there : were landmarks which made would indicate the route to he followed. Dr Bruce said he would probably reattempt the ascent in two years. AVAR DEBTS. LONDON, Sen. HO. The Commonwealth Government is paying the British Treasury on Monday £270,000, this being a half-yearly instalment, payable under the Funding of War Debts Agreement. The tact that Australia is now paving principal and interest, being the only government which is doing so, is causing a favourable impression in financial circles. MONO Ell FOR BADEN I'o WELL. LONDON. Oct 2. Tim French Government conferred the 'Legion If Onneiir on Sir Baden Powell in recognition of the educational and value ot the scout motemout, which is flourishing is trance. TO AI MANN IN SOI'TII AFRICA. (Received. this dav at lI.HO a.in.) CAPETOWN. Oct. 2. Tom Mann has arrived, i(t the invita-tion-of certain labour organisations. Interviewed, lie said lie was not out to create trouble, hut to help re-building trade unions, which apparently were in a had way. He expressed disapproval Ilf certain features of the new conciliation scheme. Ilis eight years' Australian experience of similar institu- j lions showed they did not advance the, true interests of the workers, lie was < convinced nothing less than identificn-; lion with the international movement' would meet the requirements of the future. He also had 141 view, action in connection with nn organisation styling itself " Class War Prisoners Release in i l toe, ” which protested against the sentence on men concerned in a strike, and would join with South | African workers in demanding a gen- ( eral amensty. 1

STEAMER RETURNS. VANCOUVER, Oct. 2. Presumably owing to a breakdown in a special oiling system, the steamer Empress of Australia, which sailed on Thursday for the Orient, is returning to Vancouver. U.S. DESTROYERS SAIL, fßeceived this dnv at 11. MO a.in.) NEW YORK, October 2. A message from Norfolk, Virginia, states twelve United States destroyeis have sailed hound for the Bosphorus. PA N-PACIFTC CONFERENCE. NEW YORK. October 2. Canada, Siberia, Chinn. Japan, French, Pacific Colonies, Australia New Zealand Java and Dutch East Tallies have not accepted invitations to attend the pan-Paeilic conference at Honolulu beginning on twenty-fifth October. Latin America countries have not yet accepted, hut it is believed Peru will he represented.

PICTURE THEATRE PANIC. j /Received this dnv at 11. MO a.in.) ! TOKIO, October 2. ; Sixteen were killed and thirty-four : Injured in a fire panic at a motion picture theatre in Aomori, province of Mnthn. The majority were children. ;