BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1922, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. HOSPITAL SHIP BURNT. CONSTANTINOPLE, Deo 1/. A French hospital ship was destroyed by fire, three women and three children being burned to death and a number of others are missing. AngloAmerican destroyers assisted m the work of rescue: W PARTICULARS OF DISASTER. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec L. The vessel destroyed by fire was the French transport Vinhlong, bringing army supplies. Fourteen are mismng including six burned to death. The American destroyer Bainbridgc rescued five hundred by splendid work. lh<T®___. were many French officers wither wives and a number of troops aboard when the Bainbridge responded toa* S O.S. Tho after part of the Y mbW was a mass of flames and the passengers were huddled on the forepart 'while the rescue was proceeding the transport’s after magazine t-x----nloded Eighty affrighted passengers jumped into the sea, hut mostly were lesuud. WHEA T SALES. LONDON, Dec. lb.Cargoes are firm, and quotations are threepence to sixpence higher. 1 arfirm at three halfpence to threepence advance. GERMAN VIEW. BERLIN, Dec It-. An official note in reply to M. P°l ncire’s statements in the Chamber, ecHres the Versailles Treaty, doesnot giVe the Allies power to confiscate German property.