BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

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! ZIONIST POLICY. I (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) i LONDON, Nov. 2. Sir A. Balfour informed the Chid Rabbi of Edinburgh that the no" Minister, Ormesby Gore, was an enthusiastic supporter of the Zionist policy, and was sure to see that Zionist affairs were put right. Sir A. Balioui j stated Lord Derby also supported tin I policy.

A STRANGE DEFENCE. ACQUITTED OF MURDER.

(Received this (lav at 9.30 a. n.) PARIS, Nov. 2. A jury acquitted Muller, a young workman, charged with murdering the legal representative of the Company ui.e.re lie was employed. M.ulkr lost his right arm in an accident and was awarded 92(1 sterling, annually, hut demand, d 9uU. When this was refused he shot the tin;ds_ representative dead. A!idler, at the trial, pleaded that the refusal Io increase his pension made i'impossible for him to support his i,ax her. Several of the jury hurst into tears arid acquitted -Muller who re-j reived the cheers of the court. A BONG .1 CMP WINNER. j (Received this day at 9.30 a. a.) ; LONDON, Nov. 2. Winter Ewing, a -Mdbourncaii, won the long jump at Cambridge senior | spats with 218 inches. ' EMPIRE EXMIJM'J lON. i LONDON, Nov. 2 I Mr McMahon replying to Horton’s i letter, says the impression seems to i prevail that vast quantities oi foreign i ’,cr ,u\ being used in the British j Empire Exhibition. Out of three him- J dred thousand already spent on construction, less than 91000 has been spent on materials not produc J within the Empire, and that only in order: to avoid delay in the construe-ion of. the stadium. ; WIRELESS MESSAGES. j (Received this day at 9.30 a. n.) j I’All IS. November 2. Edward Belin has invented a method of securing the secrecy of wireless messages. It broadly c< nsists of alternations of silence effecting transmission. It means a syihrouised sending and receiving apparatus, according to the understanding previously arranged as well as interspersion of false signals. I,EAGRE CONFERENCE. j Received this dav at 12.20 p.nid , GENEVA. Nov. 1. ’ The International Labour Conference has decided to make an exhaustive inrpii;., into the causes of uneiiml yment.