BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 March 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.si. CABLE ASSOCIATION. SEVERE GERMAN PENALTIES. BERLIN, Mn.H, I. President Ebert Inis decreed a I’cnitUy of ten years’ servitude, and, >1 *‘ ■- tain cases, life servitude, fc" tendering espionage services relative to economic, political, or military matters to foreign powers which have occupied German territory in pence time; or for accommodating, sheltering, or aiding the spies of such powers. Pines to 500.000,000 marks are also indictable.

CHILD POP LAPSE I!. LONDON, March .1. The “Daily Chronicle” states; —A happy event is expected at Doom in a few months time. As the ex-Kaiser is particularly anxious that the child shall not he horn in exile, he has commenced negotiations to enable him to take possession of a villa at Corfu, or at least lor his bride to go there for the birth of the child. GREEK REFUGEES DYING CONSTANTINOPLE, March o The refugees from the Black Sea now total 25,000. Disease among them is making fearful ravages. One bandied deaths are reported daily. The Turks are doing nothing, but Lady Hum bold, with the help of the British mid Aimedian colonies, is doing her best to lireventi thousands more from perishing. C HURCH RE-UNfON. LONDON, March 4. A Vatican correspondent states that the discussions on the re-union of the Churches of England and Rome, which were commenced at Alalines, in Belgium, between Cardinal Merrier a.inl Lord Halifax last year, are to be resumed shortly by the authorisation of the Vatican. The Archbishop of Canterbury says that the Vatican circles will not minimise the difficulties oi re-union. A GOOD SHOOT. (Received this dav at 9.30 fl.m.) LONDON. February 5. TV. C. Young, shooting at Bisley under King’s prize conditions, scored 103 out of a. possible of 105 and seventeen successive bullseyes. AUSTRIAN TROUBLES. (Received this day at 9.30 a.ill A VIENNA. March 5. Seventeen were injured during violent anti-Semitic demonstrations carried out I>v young students, following Jews public protest meeting against ill-treatment which was held despite a warning. Troops made ninety-nine arrests. DEFEATED CANDIDATE. /Received this day at 10 ti.m.) LONDON, March o. fl'b Ti le “Daily Express” understands Colonel Stanley will resign the UnderSecretaryship iinmedliattely, in consequence of his defeat, at East Willesden. BISHOP ~CON SECT! ATED. LONDON, February o. L. S. Kemptliorne consecrated Bishop of Polynesia at Lambeth palace. He sails at the end of April. He will spend six months in Fiji before visiting New Zealand.