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Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1923, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

OVERSEA SETTLEMENT

LONDON, Feb. 20

]l was announced in the Commons that the emigrants placed under the Overseas Settlement Act in Australia were !Ksli2, New Zealand 1540, and Canada 1200. TOWN FLOODED OUT. CAPETOWN, Feb 20. Alarienthal Town, near the railway line in South-west Protectorate, was pradically wiped out by Hoods in Fish river. No lives were lost, but the inhabitants are destitute. lAfPORTAXT INDIAN 'DECISION. DELHI, Feb 20. An historic announcement was made in the Legislative Assembly regarding Indianization of the Army, when General Rawlinson stated that Government bid decided that- light infantry or ftivalry units would be selected and officered entirely by Indian officers hold ing the King’s Commissions. Those officers would ho gradually transferred tu selected units, tilling appointments for which they were qualified by rank and length of service. The process of Tndianizing units would continue uninterruptedly as officers gain superiority and fitness, in other respects, to qualify them for seniority.

MEMORIAL TO SCOTT. LONDON Feb. 20. The British Admiralty has given a sit” at Devonport for a memorial in Captain Scott, the Antarctic explorer. LONDON, Feb 20. A meeting of the committee of tain Scott Memorial Fund, decided to accept the Admiralty's offer of a site at Mount Wise, Devonport, (Scott’s birthplace), for a statue of the famous explorer by the late A. If. Hodge. CAPTAIN COOK’S JOURNAL. LONDON, Feb. 20. In connection with the suggested purchase of Captain Cook’s Journal, the President of the Australian Historical Society states the trustees ol the Public Library have already sent, their librarian to London to hid at the auction sale, and they are appealing for subscriptions to augment the funds with which the librarian is provided. He snvs the price should not he looked at in the case of a treasure really prieeless. AVID-RE EXPERTS DIFFER. PARIS, Fob 20. Rene French (Egyptolgist) declares Tutankhamen was not buried at Luxor, which is merely a sort of cave hiding place unworthy of Tutankhamen, whose successor, King Armai, was an implacable enemy, due to a religious feud. Rene asserts the tomb discovered by Davis in 1912 was Tutankhamen’s tomb and bore his cartouches inscriptions. He quotes another famous Egyptologist, now at Luxor as agreeing that the newly found tomb is unworthy of a great Pharoah. Rene emphasises the disproportion between the treasures deposited and the plainness of (he decorations. .TAPS AND .I'.S.A. TOKIO, Feb 20. The Japanese Government formallystated in the Diet that it would not now take up the question of Japanese citizenship in America, but might do so later at a more opportune time. BRITISH EXODUS. LONDON. Feb. 20. Commandant Lamb, of the Salvation Army, read a paper on. migration before a conference of the Poor Law Guardians. He suggested that if the trade unions wound prepare a considered settlement scheme, they might reason: il>ly expect the Overseas Settlement Committee to contribute a third of its cost. The Dominions would give another third, and the Poor Law Guardians would give, the remainder. Ho declared that restrictions on immigration into Britain should run par- ~ alle! with British exodus to the Do- * minions. It would he a supreme folly if. while Britons were pouring out of the west and south, alien rogues, •» upon whom nothing like social oi economic laws were operating, were permitted to enter bv their eastern shores.

GIFT TO SCIENCE. LONDON, Feb. 20 Sir Alfred Yarrow, the noted shipbuilder, has given the Royal Society £IOO.OOO for scientific research work, the money preferably to he used to aid scientifie workers by adequate payment and supply of apparatus rather than by tho erection of costly buildings,