BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1922, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

aUSTKALIAN and n.z. cable association.

A PARIS FIRE.

PARIS, October 22.

A fire gutted Herron Schmidt’s talilierv works near the l’lace Republic. The damage is four million francs. It spread to the Children’s quarters at Saint Louis Hospital, where it was checked after the children were hurriedly rescued in their night clothes.

14 DEATHS IN FIRE. NEW YORK, October 22. Fourteen deaths occurred owing to an incendiary fire in ft tenement house. LONDON, October 22. Obituary—Admiral Sir Algernon de Horsey. BERLIN HAPPENINGS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) RE-RUN, October 22. A timely warning frustrated two attacks on Herr Wirth. One was arrang ed for last Sunday, and the second for yesterday. TeTi thousand workers at Krupps struck against, the dismissal of four hundred comrades. A TRADE MOVE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) BERLIN, Oot 22. Advices from Moscow state the Soviet- Government ratified an agreement with an Otto Wolff Consortium comprising a number of large German Industrial works by which a Russo-Ger-man trading company will be establish ed with a capital of three hundred thousand gold roubles, and have trade concessions for 'import n)nd| export. The consortium will grant -the company goods to the credit of >i million gold roubles, and a further hve lions to the Russian Government.

AL BARTHOU’S SCHEME. (Received this day at- S a.m.) PARIS, October 22. The “Petit Parisien” says the discussion of At. Bnrthon’s scheme turned on the question of legality. Sir R. Bradbury contended that the creation of a system of control of German finances may involve the Reparations Commission exceeding its (rowers. He asserted that under the A r ersailles Treaty, the Reparations Commission or Guarantees Committee have not the power to interfere with German administration. France rejects this interpretation. BERLIN, October 22. German press declares the French project to control German finances is impracticable and incompatible with Germany’s dignity. LONDON, October 22. Berlin Exchange is 19,800. LONDON, October 22. Southern group railway comprising south-western, Brighton, south-eastern, Clinthanis' Companies are amalgamating. The total capital of the new amalgamated cornpny will be one hundred and forty five millions sterling.