BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

IUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION INDIAN FISCAL POLICY. LONDON, December 23. Tile Indian Fiscal Commission's first report, which has been issued in the form of a Blue Book, recommends the Government of India to adopt a policy of protection, expressing the opinion that Judin’s industrial development bad hitherto not been commensurate with her size, population and resources. The Commission suggests the appointment of a permanent Tariff Board to investigate those industries which claim protection. It condemns unreservedly the existing cotton excise duty in view of its history and associations. It recommends India to start again with a clean slate, regulating the excise policy solely in India’s interests. No genera’ system of Imperial preference should, it says, be introduced. Any preferences found possible should be granted to the United Kingdom as a free gilt. Regarding the other parts of the Empire, preference should lie granted only through mutually advantageous agreements. TOLL OF THE SEA. LONDON, Dec 24. The British schooner Arniistico, 242 > tons .foundered 30 miles off Capo \ indent. The Homer City rescued all the crew.

The steamer Maid of Delos, 2248 tons, carrying a crow of 20. foundered off Milford Haven during the gale on Saturday. The steamer Great Western, responding to a faint S.O.S. signal, failed to find a trace of her, hut a lifebuoy and other wreckage belonging? to the Maid of Delos have since been washed ashore at Linnoy’s Hotel, Hie crew’s fate is unknown. PRICELESS OBJECTS. LONDON, December 27. The “Morning Post’s” Luxor correspondent states: Dr Howard and Dr Carter on Wednesday commenced rc- ; moving the objects from the-tnml> of ' the Emperor Tutankhamen. whereof the discovery is arousing ever increasing interest. Exports from Britain and America are assisting Lord Carnarvon s expedition in the long and difficult work in saving the contents ol the tomb. The first object brought out was an exquisitely decorated box, with inlay work, showing a king hunting lions. Its size is twelve by eighteen inches. It recalls the highest type of Japanese inlay work. The expert bore the box on a stretcher through tell Valley of Kings to the tomb of Emperor Seti 11. where the contents of Tutankhamen s tomb arc being examined and cleaned. The other objects thus far brought out are the Queen’s robes and jewellery, including a necklace ol the rarest black amber. An object of priceless value is a large alabaster vase of exceptional perfection, containing balm for embalming bodies. Dr Carter describes this as the early type of vase which Magdalene used when she washed the feet of Christ. It will take, many weeks to recover the objects in the first chamber and the contents of the other chambers in the tomb are still unknown. The evidence thus far suggests that the Emperor Tutankhamen was rn-Regent and with Emperor Akhcnaton’s death the other returned to Thebes and re-embraced the orthodox j worship of Amnii, ; FASCISTS FIGHT COMMUNISTS. : ROME, December 27. i Sanguinary conflicts have occurred between Fascists and Communists dor- • ing Xmas at Pinna, near Venice, and j a number of persons wore killed or i wounded. The conflict commenced by j some Communists tearing down the j Fascist manifestoes. The VeneUnn ; Fascists then mobilised tbo'r. forces and inarched to Pinna, where Communists occupied a fortified house. Then tile Fascists suit minded the 1 rem'sos : witli a girdle of fire. The Cominmusts • wore thereby obliged to rush out. A desperate struggle ensued, in which the Communists were beaten, and eventually wore captured. Calm has now been restored.

ECONOMIC CONFERENCE. j ll’eceived this dnv at 11.30 a.m ) j LONDON, Dec. 28. j The President of the Board of Trade informed the Associated British Chamb-j ers of Commerce that when arrange- | merits for the Economic Conference were denfinitely settled he will consult J the chambers of commerce and industri- | 1 alists in England, lie points out the j responsibility for consultations with | commercial and industrial communities of the Dominions rests on the Overseas Governments. THE LIBYAN DESERT. (Received this dnv at 11.30 a.m.) CAIROj Dec. 28. ’. ! Hassanein Bey, the companion of Mrs ) ' Kcsitu Forbes, in 1920, is setting out I ! oil a six month’s expedition to cross the ' Middle Libyan Desert that has not been crossed so far by a European. He is subsidised by the Egyptian Government.. 1 TURKS AND GREEKS. SOFIA, Dec. 28. ; It is reported from Thrace that n : Turko-Greek trouble occurred at Karagateli. -SHELLS EXPLODE. , ROME, Dec. 28. While workmen and soldiers were unloading big shells at Korin, Trentino, an explosion occurred, nine being killed and many injurjed. PRESS SEAT. LONDON, Deo. 28. A seat in the Press gallery of the Commons has been allocated for the use . of Dominions prcss ;