MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1923, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

-■.I'STIUI.IAX AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. INDIAN DECISION. CAPETOWN. Feb IS. By majority of lour, the Council of State negatived a resolution recommending national compulsory military training {or India. The supporter.*; said it was all important if India to have a responsible Government and that nothing short of compulsory training would satisfy the military require - meats of India. The principle had boon accepted in all other parts of the Empire txedpt England. General Rawlinson replied that, it was impracticable, unnecessary and grotesque to consider the application of compulsory military service to 320 millions of th< human race, it would need elaborate, costly machinery beyond the range of practical polities. He urged Indians desirous of joining the army to join' the territorial force. FRENCH POLITICS. PAULS. Fob IG. i lie Senate is discussing a hill fixing eighteen months ns the period of military service. General Bourgeois explained ibis was the very minimum eon sistent with the security of France. While France occupied Ruhr she had nothing to fear, hut the had faith of Germany rendered the future disquieting. Although the German army was reduced to one hundred thousand it was distributed among iweiity-ono camps and constituted the skeleton of a formidable army, if Germany wished for revenge. Germany had concealed war material and eaimmllagi il metallurgical ami chemical industries. In order that Frame might dominate Germany. it was imporlant that she should he able in tune of peace to assure the occiipat i' ll of Rhineland and other coercive measures. The Chamber voted four hundred million francs ( relit for Poland ami also authorised a hood issue ol thirteen thousand million francs, ehielly for refunding Treasury notes due in •iune. and eight thousand millions for the devastated regions. NEW SPEED UKCOIM). PARIS. Fi h Hi. Sadi Leconte (the aviator) broke the world's speed record, attaining n rate of 377 kilometres per hour lor lour kilometres.

OBIT!'All A'. LONDON. Eeh IS. obituary, at Carlsbad Kaschnl. the ("/"(■ln-Si .’viikiau Minister of I'duam-e. j allied '.a A ill January. ITALIAN OKG \NISA I ION- • ROME. ’ 'eh IG. ; The Fnsei.-.ii Grand Council ha- a soti je- ei ingii u isa t hue t.i It limns a ! read ; m-dmling Great Britain. Cci'-d J-1- les I i \nad.i . I n land and "" emit in* nl . ' T 1... Grand Coo in il controls I -Ml hr.*.n- ---: ties iu hve section- in and pi, America. Europe. Asia and Tbis world -wide organisation j , .... ;.|ed to as nine an importaut position in promoting the prestige ol : p dien ; , abroad. i*l lI.IsM r-I.ITlt t'A N 1 A N FB MIT. ! (Received this day at S a.mA LONDON. Feh 10. j i Serious lighting has arisen through | | the Polish-1 .it huaiiiaii territorial dis-| pule, according to an official message; 1 | com Ivoviio aUlegiug P'lish troop-m I after norm, ring Ormiy. in the neutral , ’voile, advanced into Lithuanian tern-. „ !V v and at tacked Lillumnian troops. , Scores are dead and hundreds woumlm. Lithuania has appealed to the Council j of the I "ague of Nations for intorven- j tiou. A AVONDF.RFPL SEPFLCFIRE. j LONDON, February 17. | \ special messag" tr"m Luxor states ; the opening of Ihe sealed chamber of j Tutankhamen's tomb revealed a re— ■ plendent, mausoleum of llte King in a ! spacious hoaufifillly de<'or.U'*'l el.amber | com)iletoly oemipieil by ;.n immens. J shrine covered with gold and inked j with brilliant blue laieiiee work. Il | towers nearly to ill" ceiling, end I'd' ; (he great sepulehie hall within r. slior , spa,rot the four walls. Within is yet j another shrine, mn-ml and sealed, he:r ; ing the eypher of the royal Keeropohs j and 1»v the evidence of Papyrus ol Jo’- ; nios'Os IV tlu‘j-0 innsi I»o *i s** i*»< ** j shrines covering tlie reniains of th"* King, lying in a sarcophagus. \rounl the outer canopy stand the great protective emblems of mystic type. Ime the floor are seven oars for the Koig’: use on the waters of l.lysian Field- j Among innumerable aril les e,| he:*o- , lifnl workman-hip and untold vdo j sf.nel.ed in tie- (’".amber is tin* h ad j of a hull, emblematic of the mid u world ; also miniature n iio ■ - o' r *ui' : ■ fuiierar*.- ■ tat'a lies as servant* for the dead in the coming world, amt oth"" curios emblem: ii figure.. It i- teasonablv e.-i'fii-'. that the enn = rnict:"*i of slices-ive tahei Hack's, of winch the'-' immediate opening i- imnos-inlo. an I that the actual sight of Tutankhamen'* remains and the spot where ' lies must be postponed indefinitely. DANGEROFS DITT'GS ACT. LONDON. Feh. IS. Government is introducing a hill amending the dangerous drugs act, 1920. Tt provides maximum penalties of ten years’ penal servitude with a maximum fine of a thousand pounds for improper importation or possession ot morphine, cocaine or opium. BOXING DFCIsHOX. PARIS. Feh. is. The ( iingress of International Boxing Enion declared Montreal, the Belgian flv weight champion of Europe displacing .Timmy Wilde, ft also restored Siki’s title of world and European light heavy weight champion. F.AfIOR ATTOX CAMPAIGN. LONDON, Fehrnaiy TS. With ‘‘Turn to the Empire'’ as it* slogan, the National Constitutional Association is opening a campaign to advocate that the Government take immediate action in the direction ol emigrating three hundred thousand persons annually to the Dominions. Tt also urge- more drastic control of alien immigration to Britain.

Tilt' association points out that the unemployment relief is costing the country one hundred millions yearly, for half of which one million souls could be sent to the Dominions which were starring for man power.

BRITISH SXOAV STORMS. LONDON, Fehruaty If). There are snow storms in the Midlands and the North of England and in Scotland of exception':! severity. Many towns are snow bound, and til luges are isolated. There is two feet of snow on the streets of Leeds and Sheffield. The snow is many le t deep in Derbyshire, AVestmore]and and in the Scottish Highlands, where the roads are impassable. Farmers art* losing many sheep and lambs. Frances Kerin ode, a girl of eighteen was killed in Manchester through the heavy fall of snow detaching a chinucy coping stone, which broke through the roof and killed her when asleep in bed. At least eight vessels have be n wrecked or driven ashore during the week-end on the east coast. It is feared there has been a loss of life on the vessels.

VISITED BY NOTABLES. REMARKABLE SCENES. LONDON, February 11). At Luxor, fifty notables, ini hiding the Queen of the Belgians, Prince Leopold, Lord and Lady Allenhy and the Dowager Sultana ol Egypt visited the Emperor Tutankhamen’s tomb. All expressed themselves as dazzled at the magnificence of the mortuary chamber. The heat of the tomb was intense. The Queen of the Belgians stayed in the tomb for forty minutes. She then was forced to come outside. Lord Allenhy and the Belgian Crown Prime scon discarded their coats, and went about iu their shirt sheclvcs, especially as there is only eight inches ol space lietwee ll the. walls ot the t'uno. and the huge gold coffin in which the Pharaoh lies. The visitors were for - c'd to squeeze sideways whin inspf ting its beauties. It wrs curious to see the mummified monarch Ihus holding a levee of people mcsllv from lands wh’ch the king ir*ver knew, ami whose civilsutimi look ten centuries to rea'*h a stage of culture equal to In own. Emperor Tutankhamen apparently died unexpectedly, and was buried bn riedlv. as the pieteres on the wall <>l the mortuary chapel are unlit" hei I. The artists wen* unable I" conn'etc their soheme of dee." at ion. though wllat was done E of exq "*-itc ei-hmiuig perhaps, for the > one *-e •- n. the t"ilih enlv consists cl fo"r rooms. "I •‘"■si is an an i c-tlmm 1 <*r. t**■- s"ni"l an lino \ lending 1• 1 * ■ r ! " " :■ *ifc"hs* 1! b I■ l '* Ihinl 's a i* -t. .*'*.' I. mu! the fourth is "’I ell no so !•> the d ap •! w’ i h I* till a! with a dazzling art- ' ; 1 '"' i ttv isiin s. o; EE : ;cp v ;'t>p : •"