BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. PRINCESS MARY. LONDON, Feb. 8. The almost continuous presence of the King and Queen at Viscount Lnscelles’ house in the afternoon and evening attracted a crowd outside, who cheered when the announcement of the birth of a sou was made about midnight. CONDITION SATISFACTORY. j (Received this dav at 9.30 a.m.) , LONDON, Dec 8. j It is officially announced that Princess Alary passed a comfortable night and her condition is quite satisfactory, i THE TITLE. LONDON. Feb 8. j Priucc-s Alary's son will l,e styled Prince, but not Royal Highness.

AIR FORCE CONFERENCE. (Received this (lav at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, February 7. At the Air Force Conference in Guildhall. Admiral .Mark Kerr urged that the carriage of light valuable articles by aeroplane in America paid handsomely. Freight would be remunerative wherever the aeroplane beat the train. The cheapest way to get a competent air force was to create a good commercial service. London con'd be stricken from the air. Tlie people of England must frighten Government and then .something will be done. Lore! Gorcll urged that the Post Office should adopt the American Govriinieiit’s method of sending letters by air without surcharge. Air Handley Page considered tlmt passengers were more important than Height. Grants fur research should he given flying companies in order that they experiment in Hying during foggy wea flier.

Mr lAshlxill said nothing would lr. no- ! fit Imperial Trade relations move than ' the speeding up of air commitment ioir. He hoped no more airship material would he dispersed until the Oovornment made a pronouncement on Buraev's scheme. The army rep rt on airships ought to he published. Differences between the. Admiralty and Air Ministry must not he allowed to jeopar- ; disc eoniiniinieations between the! Mother Country and Dominions. ■ Captain Intone said the eomntereial ' aeroplane was not yet invented. No 1 existing machines would pay for their . keep. ;

Sir .lovnsoii flicks said in ;i few years there would be no necessity for pilots as aeroplanes would lie directed electrically. Tn the next war, lame air fires carrying bombs would be more terrible than in the last war. The silent engines of the world curry death to towns on their route. THE LUXOR TOMBS. (Received this day at 10 a.in.) LONDON. February 7. A Luxor correspondent states it was rcpoitoil the scab, on the inner chamber inducted those of Humeses. Ini spection shows this is iiicorrci'f. the latest being Horembeb’s showing tint any robberies from the actual tomb must have occurred within eighty years of Tutankhamen's death. It is known such robberies occurred about that time hut those were mere pilfering compared with the wholesale plundering which began about eleven hundred 8.0. Tutankhamen’s tomb probably escaped, because during the two intervening centuries it was overlain and lost. The clearance or the annexe which is not yet touched, presents difficulties. Tt j is crowded with furniture and other objects a.s seen through the robbers bole. Strictly, the work should begin i forthwith, as the opening of the outer , door lets in the air and probably the i contents are suffering but it will re- : quire several months work, and ii is ' unlikely that the opening of the ad mil i tomb can he delayed so long, 1 A SEASONABLE GIFT. (Received this dav at 11.30 a.m 1 LONDON, Fell. 8 1 Sir J. Allen, on behalf of the women j and children, lias presented Princess i Mary with a handsomely hound volume containing Dr Truhy King’s j booklets on the cure of the hab.v.

AMALGAMATION OF TRADE UNIONS. (Received this dnv at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 8.

The General Council of the Trade Unions Congress commenced a campaign to weld kindred unions into do. finite groups with a view to reducing the number of trade unions, increasing the membership, and obtaining greater eflicienev in trade unionism. The conference at Manchester at which 29 out of 31 unions in the engineering industry wore represented, resolved in favour of amalgamating. The conference at Bradford at which seventeen wool textile workers trade unions were represented also agreed to the principle of amalgamation.

A LARGE ESTATE. LONDON, Eeh. 3 George Cadbury left an estate valued at 1T.071.000 sterling. ITALIANS IN TRIPOLI. ROME, Eeh. 9. Advices from Tripoli state the whole, territory which the Italians lost in 1915, has boon renooupiod, the chieftains of Tarhuna territory surrendering arms. FR EXOH R ECOGNITTOX. (Received this dnv at 9.30 n.:n.) PARTS, I’oh 8. Referring to Mr Harding's reference to the Anglo-American debt funding ngrement as affirming the Englishspeaking people’s recognition of the value of signed contracts. the “Loeuvre" says the phase should he noted in Paris hv those vainly imagining that United States in a great hurst of sympathy will pass the sponge over France's debt. On the contrary the next Anglo-American or at any rate British step will probably lie a second edition of the Balfour note. FRANCE AND RUSSIA. LONDON. February S. The Exchange Telegraph Company’s Paris correspondent states Government is seriously considering the reopening of relations with the Soviet. The correspondent adds that when the name of the French representative is disclosed it will be obvious Franco-Russian relations do not remain purely eommercial. INDIAN FRONTIER. DEI,HI, Feb 8. A composite force consisting ol a brigade each from Hadlia and Bazinah assembled at Fanda to continue operations against Mahstids, who opposed their advanc'd suffering severely and leaving many dead on the field. Subsequently the enemy snipers persistently hnrrassed the pickets. Two British and six Indian ranks were killed and four British officers and twenty-seven P.riii«h ami Indian ranks wounded