BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. OAItt.E ASSOCIATION A SWISS PANIC. ■ Received this tin a’ nt 9.30 n.mA GENEVA, October 28. The proposed levy oil capital is onniing a run on hanks. Several are already in difficulties. Thrifty people ire withdrawing their savings and foreign hankers are transferring on Vital to England and America. NEW SHIT TAKES KICK. LONDON'. Oct 28. I ,lords report a, lire occurred in the insulated hold of the meat carrier Port Hardy, only launched nine days, and 1 belonging to the Commonwealth-Do-miion lie. The fire has heen extinguished, hut the damage is considoriblo. A SPY OAI’:HIT. IN FRANCE KOI! CEC.MANS. PARIS. Oct 28. Lucien Courtois. aged 73. who ,s leaf and almost hlirnl. has heen ten- • enced to ti n years on a charge of es- i lionagc. He has heen a Herman spy ince 1888. llofore the war he |>osed is a staunch patriot. I IN* ronipatiots' confidences helped him to serve, ds German paymaster, on whose pay e has lived wholly for 34 y«*jirs. On he outbreak of the war, be ceased his < elutions with Germany, hut his . reacher.v as heen discovered as the , esnlt oi' the Germans’ failure to dctrov confidential papers when they ere driven put of Alsace Lorraine, blinding a complete record of Courtois’ ork. 1 The (bar ms dated from 1912 to the • utbreak of war, and referred notably ;> information concerning the [• rench rooi>s in Morocco, and to C'ourtois’s enunciation of a French officer who ad discovered secrets of toyman viation. There also was a description f the inhabitants of Metz and Hagneaii having relations with the .french. Several of the Kreiichmeii and Alitians whom Courtois had denounced ere imprisono.l hv the Germans. Courtois alleged that the informaon he had given the Germans was ilse. and valueless, hut a German reart described him as a trustworthy ’\Yhen ho was sentenced he exclaimed If I am not dead when the sentence spires, T shall he totally blind. AN APPOINTMENT. (Received this dav at 9.30 a. .i.i LONDON. October 28. The “Times” understands Mr .1, T. ••vies (Hon. Lloyd George’s Private if rotary) has heen appointed to the irectorship of Suez C v, niil. whic t ha■on vacant for two years. The uylintment is in the gift ef the Tio"ry. ANGORA OR 1 >KR. (Received fibs day at 10 n.m.) LONDON, October 29. Advices from Angora state Gore limit lias now issued an order lorlndng foreigneis to leave witluni:, p bixsion of the central authorities, his is interpreted as meaning that io Kemalists wish t > retain hostages i the event of a resumption of the nr, or that they desire to force feigners pay heavy taxes r.rhit nY Tv iposed, irrespective of exist'!■ mt< : - itiontl treaties. i A BISHOP’S ACTION. (Received this dav at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON. Oct 28. I.ord Birkenhead states the action of le Bishop of Oxford in barring the hike of Marlborough from attending m Diocesan Conference is as unhristian .as it is arrogant. Tin* legally of the action was gravely doubtful. CANADIAN’;: PROTEST. (Received this dav at, 9.30 a. n.i LONDON, Oct 28. The Canadian ( hanihrir of Commerce arried a resolution depreciating the reposal to construct Empire Exhibiitm Buildings <-f fereign building nnierials. in preference to the Dominnns. RUSSIAN REFUGEES. (Received this dav at 8.30 n.ni.l GENEVA, Oct. 30. Dr Nansen, representing the League if Nations, has concluded an agreeneut with the Bplgarian Government or the transfer to Varna of 5000 Rushan refugees, who took refuge in Conitantinople after the Soviet’s filial deeat of Wrangel’s Army in the Crimea. I’he American relief administration will •oiitinue to provide supplies to the •el'tigces in Varna for several months. Hie agreement is regarded as another riumph for the League ,in settling a lerious problem. FRENCH A MBASSADOR. (Received this dav at 1.5 p.mL BERLIN October 20. Laurnet, the French Ambassador, ms resigned. 30 TOLLED IN COLLISION. (Received this dav at 1.5 p.m). PARTS October 20. Ten were killed and thirty injured n a collision between the Brest exmess and a goods train in a station at Ihatelaudren.