MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 March 1923, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A fascinator. (Received this dav at 10 a.m.) GENEVA. February A. Ferdinand N«ter. fifty tuo, handsome and fashionably dres-ed. was charged at Zurich with obtaining money from fifteen women under promises of marriage. Me pleaded T have a loving heart and am quite unable to resist women. Most of the victims are young widows. Tlnee of the five were present n, court and tearfully besought the •lodge to liberate Nater. The other two intimated they would bring breach of proinso actions. Nater declared a mail.rilv of the women themselves propound. lie n-is sentenced to two years imprisonment and also to throe years Ins- of civil rights. PASSION PLAYERS. (Received this dav at 10 a.m.) PARI. March 0. The bis Oboianiincrgau passion players despite (ousiderahle profits in 192”. are suffering abject poverty owing to the increased cost of living, and depreciation ol the mark. Hie players have consequently omit ranted fora tour of United States to produce pastoral scenes not the passion play itself. CHESS PRODIGY. I’Alil. March A. Aristide Onmer. aged twelve, a new Chess prodigy, played twenty games simultaneously against the host of Paris He won fifteen, drew four and lost one. A BOMBING OUTRAGE, nicer iced this dnv at 9.30 a.lll.) CAIRO, .March A. Two daring bomb outrages were perpetrated on Sunday evening. Miscreants dashed through the city in a motor ear and hurled a bomb into a cafe which is most frequented by British soldiers. killing an Egyptian waiter and wounding throe British soldiers having a meal. They then throw a bomb into the signal room of IHe British Army headquarters, which was nearby, and used to he Eden Palace Hotel. If the second bomb had exploded it would have disorganised the whole of the British eoliiiiiuiliealii.m-. in Cairo district. The city is astounded at the daring nature of the outrages which is the worst bombing attempt yet made. The bombers escaped through the British headquarters which were strongly guarded. It is understood grave steps are contemplaled as a result of the outrage.

A MILITARY CRITIC. (Received this day al 11.30 a.in.) LONDON. March d. Colonel Repington writing in the “Daily Telegraph” says alter studying wars and results in Europe and America. 1 find that other nations in the matter of defence followed the policy of safety first, htil we have not. Me seeln to ho the only state in the world, not excepting United States, which reduced its peace establishments to. Hir danger point, even for the Empire « internal security. Finance and polities have l>een our guide, not unis and foresight. We not only jettisoned I he armed forces which won the war. but inexcusably neglected the lessons ol the war which should have become the Empire’s inalienable inheritance and should have been applied for the frot ration of the designs imperilling peace. We had no announcement of the present state of inter-imperial relations in regard to defence. Before the war we knew the Dominions were working with us. Now we do not know where we stand, except that politically Britain cannot commit the Dominions without consultation. The Navy has been cut to the hone, our air force is incapable of playing a serious part in home defence; our army would not hear comparison with the pre-wai forces, which proved most inadequate. The Government’s first business as advised hv the committee of Imperial Defence' is to evolve a position of security, to maintain treaties, and preserve peace. This is an indispensable preface to economical administration.

A ROYAL REVIEW. ROAIE. -March I. An Anglo-1 talian review is being arranged at Naples for the British sovereigns’ visit. ANGORA DEBATE. Received this dav at 12. 2 A p.iu.) LONDON, March 5. The “Daily Mail’s” Angora correspondent states 37 deputies- will speak in the Treaty debate and a decision Is unlikely for several (lays. ITALIAN PROPOSAL. LONDON. March A The -‘Daily Mail’s” Rome correspondent states Mussolini is credited with a proposal to increase deputies by an extra member for every hundred llious.nul emigrants to foreign countries, thus keeping in touch with emigrants and securing deputies conversant with foreign countries. RUSSIA’S ARMY, deceived this day at 12.2> pin.) LONDON. March A

The “Daily Mail’s” Petrograd correspondent says there have been many rumours of an impending red ofleiiMV" which i> mainly Bolshevik propaganda The truth is the army is entirely on a peace footing, only the infantry class being under arms, being the Lib though the 1902 class will shortly .e called up. Divisions have two establishments on frontier and interior. 1 lie respective ration strength is S/00 am <1721. There are 39 such divisions, three or four in TurkesLan, one ni Georgia, one in Azerbaijan, one m Armenia, two in Far East, while >ctv, can forty and fifty batteries ot heavy artillery are scattered about. Lolslieviks have greatly progressed in aviation and have many modern British am Italian machines of high stamlai. flying.

ANOTHER GOVEUNMEN 1 DEFEAT. LONDON. March o. Mitcham hye-electiou resulted:— Edo (Labour) )" Boseawen (Liberal) Brown (Liberal) , Catterall (In. Con.) AVTLD WOLVES, ißeceived this day at 9.30 a.m.)_ LONDON. .March o. The “Daily Mail’s” Riga eorrespond:nt states; Great parks of wolves rail'dn> r throughout Simbirsk district, south-east Russia have eaten during the winter more than twenty persons. Thev attacked and ate a peasant. Ins v ife and two children, their horses and pigs which they were taking to mnrk<Soviet militia, armed with maclimeguns. are escorting villagers, taking rood to the t«nvns. UV ACTUATING DALMATIA. BELGRADE. March 5. In carrying out the recently ratified treaty Italian troops evacuated without incident- Slutshak and all places m the so-called third zone of Dalmatia is being handed over to Jugo-Slavs.

EMBASSY ATTACKED. (Received this dav at 9.30 a.m.) ROME. March 5. Tn n scuffle with three individuals who were attempting to break into the German Embassy, the Secretary was shot in the abdomen. All three assailants were arrested. Mussolini has expressed regret for the incident to the Ambassador. TREATY TALK. .'Received this dav at 10.30 a.m.) LONDON. March 5. The “Timas” Paris correspondent states the terms ultimately to he offered to Germany are being discussed with greater earnestness. Tile idea of a new treaty to supersede or amend the Versailles Treaty is making headway. There appears, however, a cleavage in French official circles. One section desires a. great Inter-Allied debate in consonance with the spirit of \ crsailles; the other wishes to confine negotiations to Franco aiid Belgium, which would mean a. separate Treaty. Meanwhile early actum is unlikely. |