MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1923, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND X.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. AN INNOVATION. LONDON, Fob 13. Col AVcdgewood and Air Adamson, members of the House of Commons, have been appointed Governors of the Birmingham I’nivcrsity. the first of stab appointments in Great Britain. KEAIAI- AND INDIA. i Received this dav at 9.30 u.tn.) LONDON. Felt 12. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Constantinople correspondent states Rental Pasha has sent a message to the Khalifar Committee in India, saying the Turkish victory over Greece not onlysaved Turkey, hut will encourage all the oppressed against their oppressors. ■ | hope and pray to Allah that all yenr efforts tor the freedom of India will he crowned with success in tins near future. There is a great honour for India in our victory. Your moral material help has been of great use to us.” EFFECT OF SEEING FH.AIS. PARIS, Fell 13. Leon Fucher, aged 7. committed suicide by hanging in a cellar of his father’s house at Le Alans. The parents took the child to the movies, where he saw a film depleting a hangiti"- Gn the wav home the hoy asked if "it hurt. His mother laughingly answered: “No.” Shortly- afterwards tno father found the hoy dead. FRFXCTT NAVAL PROPOSALS. (Received this day at 8.30 a m ) PARTS, Feb. 11 The .Minister of -Marine is contemplating a new naval programme covering a period of 20 years, and providing a total tonnage of seven hundred thousand, of which sixty-five thousand will he submarines, and sixty thousand aeroplane carriers. Dur.ng the first year onlv light vessels will be built, comprising six cruisers, tlurty-five destroyers and thirty-tour submarines. An appropriation of 2 400 nullum francs will he made to he spent m . eight annual instalments of three hundred million francs.