BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

IUsTUAM.W AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION EXPLOITING FORESTS. (Received this dnv at 0.80 ». n.) LONDON. Jan i 7. The “Petit Parisien’sV Dm-scldnrf correspondent says among the sanctions imposed will he the imprisonment of delinquent-'. The French. Italian and Belgian Governments have i rd: r-d the esploitalion of the slate Invests on the left hank of the Rhine, as a penalty for Germany's default in delivery of wood. TEA PRICE RISE. DELHI. Jan 17. The tea sales in the Calcutta mar- ■ ket saw a strong demand and a further advance in all grades, espec- : billy fair bhe-k leaf. Pekoe souelmngs i were half to one anna dealer. and J <ln-ts and fannings half an .iniia '•< ■ i- i cr. LABOUR WINS BYE-ELECTION. LONDON. Jan IS. The Newcastle bye-elect ion to elect , a successor to Mr !’• !i (deceas'd) re- ; sided as follows: Rt lien. A Henderson (Lab.) I I JUKI ' .Mr Barnes < I nd. 1.i1i.) b. ISO | ('apt. Gee, Y.C. (Con.) ... . 1.881 j I lender.-mi's majority DEBT NEGOTIATIONS FT 11. ' WASHINGTON. Jan IS. The ilebth negotialions. have been j suspended. The mitir- British Com- j mission left Washington this alter- j noon and are sailing on S.tLu.dey to j consult the British Cabinet. EXCHANGE DROR. LONDON. Jan. 17 j Latest foreign exchange rales are;! On Paris, 711. 00 francs to the t -1 : on j Berlin, 81,000 marks: on New York, j Idol. (ii;j cents. DEMAND FOR WELSH COAL. j LONDON. Jan. 17 | Owing to the increased American andj French demands for eon!, the ports ol ■ South Wales are crowded with ship,, i whereof 110 have arrived (hiring the j last I liree days. _ ' There are now no fewer than BLi ! ships in dock at the South Males, ports waiting for cargoes, while there 1 are -18 more steamers unable In find j berths. j

HR ITISf I UN EM PLOYED. LONDON. Jan. 17 Hundreds of unemployed are besieging the French Consulate at Liverpool, desiring to gel work in the Ruhr mines in Germany. The officials of the Consulate awaiting official instructions can do nothing, LONDON, Jan. 18 Another Liverpool report stales:—• The unemployed are besieging the French Consulate and are seeking to join the French Ai my in the Ruhr, but the French Embassy in London announces that if is most unlikely any English recruits can In- utilised. SOVIET’ INTENTIONS. (Received this day at 8 n.m.) LONDON. Jan. 18. A reliable message Inna Moscow declares Soviet has decided to mobilise live years conscripts intending t.o assist Germany if armed resistance to Kreiieb occupation becomes feasible. WIRELESS MARVELS. !Received this dnv at B.BH n.m.) PARIS, Jan. IS. Suburban residents beard Melba strongly on a three valve wireless and Copenhagen amateurs experimenting with a wireless heard the opera La Boheme distinctly. EMPIRE POLICY. (Received this dnv nt 8.80 a.in.) LONDON. Jan. IS. The “Times” in a leader on the Empire foreign policy declares on all grounds it is of most urgent importance that the Premiers Conference should meet in 102.8, when a common policy could he decided upon. There was no feasible alternative to allowing the British Government to carry out that policy, acting as it were on commission, alter consultation. No doubt the system of keeping the Dominions informed hy cable despatches will he continued and if the Dominions require a closer constant liaison hy the presence iii London of a member ol the Government, or other method, he will la- w ell (imed. hut to maintain I lie united policy ill the Empire it is necessary to have frequent meetings of the Premiers Conference. They are more iieeessarv than ever in such a time as this, o| unsettlemeut and disorganisation. wlien crisis succeeds crisis and grave decisions must be taken every week. Moreover, the political changes throughout the Empire, which are the most serious obstacle to an early conference, ((institute one of the strongest arguments why it should he held since the value of all other forms of communication between Ihe Premiers have diminished by half, if they arc personally unacquainted with the graver and more far-reaching decisions which must he undertaken. The more imperative il is they should express united views of the British Commonwealth, A BIBLICAL REFERENCE.

Bcceived this tlav at 1t..’11) a.m.’i LONDON, Jan. IS.

With a great wealth of historical argument, the famous Egyptologist, Arthur Weignll, ill an article in Die “Daily Mail,” advances the theory that the Pharaoh of the oppressors in Egypt, who knew not Joseph, and who-c death is mentioned in the first chapter of Exodus was none oilier than Tutankhamen.. Weigall instances a well-known fact that Tutankhamen conducted great building operations, employing many foreign slaves and says this corresponds with Ike Biblical account of bloodsucking and taskmasters. The "Mail” points out that if this is true it is quite likely , .Moses himself gazed on the very relics which are now being removed from j the tomb. ' AIR MACHINE. ! LONDON, January 18. ( The Legion of Frontiersmen arc inn’.- . ing arrangements Tor a world flight, j ( starting in the spring with Captains , Mc-Millan Geoffrey and Mnlins as pilot , engineer and observer t espectivelyi A machine of amphibious type is being built in sections, so that even the constructors will not know its secret-. Two months before the fight a special supply ship will visit desolate putts of the route and leave petrol and food dumps on uninhabited places such as Aleutian Islands. The dump,, will b; j especally marked in order to he vis— j iI He to the aviators at a high altitude, j Malin interviewed said we are roc-civ- i ing tile Air Ministry’s whole hearted j supjwrt. Our route will he France. | Italy. Greece. Egypt. Palestine. Persia. Indian Burma. Japan. Serbia, Alaska. Newfoundland, Greenland. Iceland. Orkney Islands. London. We do not worry about speed so long as we cornplate our thirty-three thousand miles journey. Forty food and petrol depots ' are being placed at intervals of two ' hundred miles along the North Pacific. The aeroplane will lip the finest ever built, including wireless direction find- , or registering the height from the sea : and distance* from land. A machine- 1 gun will be carried in case of trouble y.lth hepd-hunter-s of Formosa, j