BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. RADIO BROADCASTING. DELHI. Feh 17. Government will permit private ent< rprise to undertake broadcasting by radio in British India and Burma, on lines obtaining in the United Kingdom. DELHI, Feb IS. Serious inter denominational riots occurred at Wodhwnn near Alnncdabad. A raosqiui was damaged and seventyeight Mohammedan.s severely injured. Fiiten Hindus leceivod hums from sulphuric acid. According to a local newspaper one hundred arrests have been made including only two Hindus. COKE SHORTAGE. BAIHS. Fob 17. |- I, ini" is suffering keenly owing to 11 :. toko shortage, resulting in the closing of nearly half tin- country's blast 1 iiiuners. MEM EE’S FUTURE. BABES. Ecb 17. The AiiiEa-s.tdoiCouncil decided that Lithuania shall hold Memcl. snb--jp,-|. to an aeeeptaii"" of special mantime regime, with an autonommis har1, ,HI- for the purpose of protecting Polish interesl s. Hi »V.\l. GOY.ERNDRK. E( IN' BOX. E'-hruary 19.

'|'ln. Xcus the World” -ays it is believed ill "ell i'llmim.l circles that the Dlik" "I York v-ill - •freed the Duk" of ( umiaugkt a- Gove: imr-t .encral of South Africa am! "ill spend a cinisidcra big time ovor-one A simlE.i position in aeotlicr Dominion is mlitemplat, d nr Brime Henry, when the BAS EW A Y \( Cl DENT. BARIS. February 19. \ railway accident occurred at Eper-ii-v. where'll lifuel’ll were killed and thirty injured.

GERMANY BAYS BELGIUM. RRUSSEES. Eeh'iiary l(i. Germany's treasury bill-, given to Belgium last Septcmbm on a-co'int of repaiatious owing to her. and wineh tell due Li’-day v ore paid.

VIEW OF I.AIiOURITES. EONDON, Fchriiary Hi. Eighty-eiglu La hour members of Parliament to-das cabled J’resident Harding a- Follow.-: “America \\ it h Britain, 1111 " illingl.v made Utatiee’s present destructive act mu pos-il,!e. A\ 0 appeal to American, en-opei a I "in today ns the one hope of saving Europe.” HANK manager charged (Received this (lav at n .:in a.nO IiDXDON. Eel, 19. Edmund George Mansell. Manager of the City Equitable Insurance Company. was charged with conspiring with Befan to obtain, h.v false pretences, Cllo,ooo sterling from the Company.

BISHOP TAKEN ILL. •Received this dav at 9.:.«> »-•».) EONDON. Fell 19. The Bishop of Melanesia was taken seriously ill on the eve of hi- departure. He underwent an operation and is progressing favourably. DECREE .'ANNULLED. EON DpX, Fell 19. The Court annulled the luint-hury decree cabled on the 9th. SOCIALIST ON TOUR. C'O'BBN HAGEN. Fell 19. The Social Democrats are sending Herr Scheidmann on a lecturing tour to Scandinavia, for the purpose of explaining tlie difficulties of the labouring class, especially Ruhr workers. FRENCH TRAIN DISASTER. (Received this dnv at 9.90 a. 1 A DARTS, Feh 19. Further details of the Epernay raiiwaiy accident show that a crowded Daris-Strassburg express was travelling at sixty miles per hour, and collided with a yard engine close to the station. This was the result of delay in clearing freight ears from the main lino to switchers. The express engine leaped the rails carrying the adjoining cars with it. several being wrecked. The dead included soldiers returning to Alsace and several babies.

VICTORIAN LOAN. LONDON, Feb. 19. A A'ictorian five uer (-out loan of 96,1)90,D0n is immiin*n!. LLOYD GEORGE’S ARTICLES. LONDON. F.'b. 19. During the present European crisis, Mr Llo.vd George’s article- will lie published weekly for a tew weeks, instead ,6 fortnightly. The widespread interest in the articles is evidenced by the fact that they are being published in twenty-three countries in twelve different languages. BRITISH BOLITTC’S. ■Received this due at 11.30 a.til.) I,ON DON, Feh. 19. Mr Lloyd George, in supporting the Liberal amendment, said France in following a policy of cash or smash was heading towards irretrievable disaster. France''and Gennmiy were standing in gleaming defiance through tlie ing of national pride. America s aid must ho immediately sought, with or without the League ot Nations. I'litme could not resist a solid Anglo-Ameri-can appeal. Hon. Bonar Law said France would regard intervention as an act of hostility. , The amendment wa- deleated by 30-> votes to 196. A DISASTROUS YOY-AGF. (Received this day at 12.23 p.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb 19. Out of 1685 refugees, mostly Greeks I eight hundred died ol diseases aboard j the Egyptian tramp steamer Themises. which arrived from Novorossisk. Ihe , master of the ship was fined £SOO sterling for carrying passengers in insufficient accommodation.