BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION, f A GREAT SHAKE. | (Received this day at 8 a.in.) I LONDON, Feb t. A great earthquake shock "'as lidt at Birmingram seismograph. The noodle was violently thrown off tin instru- ■ input repeatedly. Also at Florence j seismograph, there were five hours of, shocks. ; GUINNESS MANSION BLR NT. j LONDON. Feb 4. ! Armed men on Saturday night visit- , ed Colonel Charles Guinness's heaiitiI'nl historic mansion at Clermont I’ark. They allowed the household fifteen minutes to collect a few small valuables. and then placed the Colonel and his wife and servants under an armed guard. They sprinkled the house with petrol ,and the basement and roof were quickly consumed. Iho damage is assessed at C ID,OOO. Ihe Colonel is the head of the Guinness family in Ireland, and is a prominent Unionist. FRANCE AND ITALY. ROME. Feb 4. j The members of Rnrihimont have ic- j reived copies or a new commercial | treaty with France. The latter is now Italy's best customer. BANKS DECISION. 'Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) I ROME, Fell. •>. The banks have decided, tor the first time to accept crossed cheques as •> safeguard against falsification. COAL FOR ITALY. j i Received this day at S.3U a.m.) ROME, Feb. ">. Signor -Mussolini has concluded a treaty with Roland, relating to petrol and minerals. France assured Italy that the latter’s coal from Ruhr will he escorted to the Italian frontier. Formerly such deliveries to Italy amounted to one hundred thousand tons monthly, but have fallen recently to '2.300 tons daily. Italy’s’ receipt of German coal saves her eleven millions sterling annually at the present rate of exchange. RUSSIAN NEWS. (Received this day at 5.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 5. The “Daily Mail’s’’ Copenhagen correspondent reports four priests in Saratov province were executed by Bolsheviks for resisting blasphemous communistic processions. Trotsky inspected the troops in the west and m i a speech warned the men to be read' 1 for a possible war in May. TOM MANN. ' (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, Feb. o. Tom Mann is returning to England. He is not visiting Australia.