BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1922, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

I AUSTRALIAN AND NCABLE ASSOCIATION. SMALLPOX CASKS. LONDON, Oct. 31. Further cases of smallpox are reported at Poplar, and one case at Lambeth. MINK I!S' PERILS. VIENNA, Oct, 31 Roumania reports that a disastrous explosion has occurred at Lupney, Transylvania, in a colliery. Several hundreds of miners have been killed. KAISER DENOUNCED. BERLIN. Oct. 31 “Vonvaerts” states the ex-Kaiser has ordered a diadem with 70fl diamonds set in platinum, also oar-rings, as a wedding gift to his ~ bride. The smallest stone is half a on til t. The diadelu alone is valued at eight hundred million marks. “Vonvaerts’* points out his gift harmonises with the osteiitittion and extravagance’ of the Kaiser's reigil. “While the nation is suffering from the bitterest need of millions, and hardly is able to obtain bread, the man who plunged it into this plight can deck his bride with diamonds, the cost of which would suffice to help one hundred thousand families over the distress of the winter.” It asks: --- “How can other countries believe Germany’s insolvency when it puts an overthrow monarch in a position to gratify the whims Ulid caprices of a millionaire ?’* A loyalist journal says this diadem had long been possessed by the Hohenzollerns and is onlv being reset. SERBIANS FEAR FASCISTS. V BELGRADE October 31. The newspapers here are agitated over the news of the Fascisti triumph. They ask if this means war. as the Fascist! are known to have ambitions aspirations.