MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1922, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND X.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION DEFAULT BY GERMANY. PARIS, December 27. M. Poincare replying to questions in tho Senate stated the Government on December 22nd asked tlie Reparation; Commission to state whether German.! had defaulted in deliveries in kind The Commission by a majority agreed to the affirmative and also that the Allies could take measures in concert or individually. The question of individual or collective action would pro bably form part of the programme of the January Conference..

JAPAN’S ARMY. TOKTO, December 26

The Japanese Army Budget, which has been agreed upon, shows a cut of 23.500,000 yen for 1923, and a total of 355,840,000 yen, which was spread over a period of 11 years. EGYPTIAN UNREST. CATRO, December 27. Three men, in a motor car, shot Professor William Robson, of the Royal Law School. Another .Englishman, riding on a motor cycle nearby, was fired on. and had a. narrow escape. No arrests have been made. There is no clue in regard to tho identity of the murderers.

BRAKPAN REPRIEVE. CAPETOWN, Dee. 27

Duncan (Minister of the Interior, in the first ministerial utterance on the subject of the Brakpan reprieve, said Government had decided to commute the sentences, not because they did not recognise the terrible nature of the crimes, but because they felt the men were not personally guilty of the murders and because they wore misled and diil not understand what they were doing, but ho wished to say very seriously that South Africa could not go on like this. She could uot go on having a revolution ovory few years. We are a small people, and had to maintain European civilisation and if we are to fight amongst each other every few years, civilisation would die.

RESULT OF A LAWSUIT. BRUSSELS, Dec. 26. The Court of Appeal has given judgment in a lawsuit relating to the exKaiser’s fortune. A Brussels broker commissioned an English Bank to cash bond coupons amounting to several million francs. The British Government objected to the negotiation of the coupons, as it had received information that they belonged to the ex-Kaiser. 'Hie English Bank brought an action to recover the amount. The Court in the first instance gave judgment in the hank’s favour. The Appeal Court eonfirmed t 1 o judgment, and ordered the broker to refund the amount to the hank. The Dutch Bank, which was an intermediary in the case, . was nonsuited.

FORTUNES LOST. COPENHAGEN. Dee. 26. Prince A age, eldest sou of Prince Vnldcmar. of Denmark, who is a brother of Queen Alexandra, is leaving to take a commission in the French Army in Morocco. It is stated Hint lie lost his fortune in the Land Bank collapse. His father also lost heavily. He and his brothers now have only what they can earn. It is impossible for him to live’oli the wages of a Captain in the Danish Armv. His brother,

Prince Erik, is at present working in a Canadian dairy. FEARS FOR SHIPPING. LONDON, Dec. 27. Hope lias been abandoned regarding the crew of the Maid of Delos. The wildest weather has prevailed on the English roast and in the Atlantic. Tho wireless operator of the New Columbia received 5.0.5.. calls from several vessels, three of which are believed to have foundered. [The steamer Maid of Delos, 2248 tons, carrying a crew of 26, 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, but a lifebuoy an dother wreckage belonging to the Maid of Delos have since been washed ashore at Linney’s Head. The crow’s fate is unknown.]

OBITUARY. LONDON, Dec 28. Obituary.—Margaret Cooper, the entertainer. JOINS AIR FORCE. .'Received this dav at 9.30 a .in.) LONDON, Dee 28. Colonel T. E. Lawrence, known as “Arabian Lawrence” has enlisted in tho Royal Air Force as a craftsman, “A. C. Ross” four mouths ago ostensibly to secure peace and quiet” for literary work. A TRADE ORGANISATION. (Received this dav at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Dec 28. Tho Imperial Trade Propaganda organisation which has been actively engaged in the last four years promoting trade, is merging into a wider and more influential undertaking under the title* of Empire Trade League in control of which all the Overseas Dominions are represented.