MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1922, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. JIT. EVEREST EXPERIENCE. /Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 2L Captain Finch, a member of ML Everest Expedition addressing the Royal Geographical Society, testified to the effects of cigarette smoking in high altitude. After deeply inhaling smoke he and his companion were able to breathe automatically, instead of having to think about every .breath. Apparently the smoke acted as an irritant and took the place of carbon dii xido, in which the blood was deficient. The effect of a cigarette lasted for ; t least three bouts. When their cigarettes were exhausted, they had recourse

to oxygen. GERMAN ( OURTM ARTIALS. UNITED SERVICE TELEGRAMS {Received this dav at 11.30 a.m ) LONDON, Nov. 21. A Cologne correspondent states the French general court martinis have ended. The operations of what nib known as the escaping company consisting of eight German partners were each sentenced in Alsntiafi to twenty m nrs hard labour and lined three thousand marks. It appears a prisoner m Wilt lech prison stoic an official order of release for the pardoned man. and gave the document to a Weishaden woman, who forwarded it to tbo Pscap-

ing company. Fnscimilo orders were manufactured, official stamps and signatures forged, and the company vith these procured to release a larp/e mini-; ber of prisoners, including dangerous ' criminals from W’ittleeh, during the past two years. DETAILS OF CAPTURE. ; (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) j LONDON. Nov. 21. The •‘Daily Mail’s” Hongkong correspondent supplies details of the piratical capture of the steamer Sui An. Pirates armed with revolvers assembled four hundred passengers including Li) Europeans, under a guard, looted the stores, and sales, stripped the passengers of money and valuables. Tile pirates whose leader was dressed in female clothing steered tbe ship miles out of her course and transferrtd the loot, which is estimated to be worth £70,000 sterling, into sampans and got clear away. In the fighting Indore the pirates secured possession, three Indian guards were shot dead. REPLY TO DEPUTATION. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON. Nov. 21

Mr Ronar Law writing to unemployed officials, lirmly refused to receive an unemployed deputation, pointing out til’ Ministers for Labour and Health were primnrilv responsible for dealing with U X e alleviations of unemployment. The Ministers mentioned expressed their willingness to receive the deputation. If (his were deemed unsatisfactory it can be challenged in Parliament.

FOG IN LONDON. (Received this dev at 10.30 a.m.) LONDON. Nov 21. : The opening of the wool sales lias been postponed owing to fog. BONING. PARIS, Nov 21. The Boxing Federation voted by 12 to 2 to withdraw Siki’x license of affiliation to the Federation. When bis nine months is lifted Siki may apply for a new license. The decision was taken in consequence of a communication by a member of the Federation.