BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

A .HIiUCESTION. (Received this day at 9.30 a.n.) LONDON, Nov. 14. Sir J. Allen suggests if Australia wants to givo dead soldiers’ next of kin a worthy memento, she . should come in with Now Zealand’s proposal and send them coloured photographs of the gravels, as seen in sp'i ing time. It will cost New Zealand I'dOO.l sterling if she acts alone, and half ii Australia collaborates. He could conceive no better permanent record. THE FASCIST! MOVEMENT. ■Received this dav at 9.30 a. n.) LONDON, Nov 14. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Vienna correspondent reports the Fascisti movement, bearing the Monarchists’ stamp, lias grown to such a degree that Government is compelled to dissn.ve .t. The organisation was formed on the Italian tvpe .Members are hound by oath are drilled as soldiers : nci supported by leading Hungarians, . ten Government supporters uw doubtin' whether the movement, will be suppressed by a dissolution of the 1-awist organisations, which lias also sprta 1 to Czecho-Slovnkiji, where it >-s deni-wing the imprisonment of idlers. . KILLED BY HAILSTORM. CAPETOWN, Nov 14. information has reached Ivckstad of ~ terrific, unprecedented hailstorm m Guquiiland East. Fourteen .names were killed by huge jagged pieces ot ice. Oxen stampeded over piecipms, and were dashed to pieces. !

HUNGER STRIKING. (Received this day at 11.3(1 a.m ) LONDON. November 14. Scenes similar to those witnessed when McSweeney (Lord Mayor of Cork) hunger struck, arc being enacted m the “case of his sister, who has been hunger striking in Dublin for the past twelve days. Crowds assemble nightly outside the prison and recite the Rosary, loudly enough to he ’ card inside. Mr Cosgrove is receiving numerous protests against her detention. His invariable reply is that ‘ Do \ nlera, Mary McSweeney, and their associates are responsible for the bloodshed in Ireland. We will not allow the discharge of our duties to the nation to he hampered by consideration for any individuals.” MORE QUAKE SHOCKS. DEATH ROLL OYER 2000. Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 14 Advices from Smtiagn state renewed earthquake shocks wore felt at Leaselena. The total damage is unknown. It is now estimated the tot'l (let s from the earthquake number two tlr usaml. Six hundred bodies were rcc-v----ered from the ruins of the city of Yaldinar. They were carried to t’’o public square and after identification, burned. JAI’S IN AMERICA. NEW YORK. Nor. 14. The census bureau estimated tlrt approximately one thousand J:']iane«e will lose their naturalisation paners r-1-lcad.v granted them, as the result of the Supreme Court’s decision recently cabled.