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Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1923, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION COLD TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED I’A li IS, A larch 20. i A huge organisation is tinffickinr , in gold hoarded hv French peasant-; Iheie has been discovered at Mai ‘‘■dies, t hiriy receivers am! trimsmitteix of gold coins, wliieh were sent to Italy, melted, and returned t: I' ranee in the shape of ingot-: where ; limited company sold them tu tin Erencli Trem-iny. Those | coj ie l.avr hcmi in routed. AFTER MA.W YEARS. I’ARIS. March 20. Forty-live years ago, Duval, a chemist, was sentenced to life iinju-i.-oiinieut for poisoning his wife with arsenic, lie served twenty-four years and was then liberated, but lie always proclaimed bis innocence. Prominent scientists, owing to the advance in knowledge, secured Duval's pardon in 1902. on the ground that the small quantity of arsenic in the woman's hodv could have g°t there accidentally Now the Academy of Medicine states that one milligramme of arsenic m a human body is harmless, and as less than this quantity was found in the body of Duval's wife, the Minister t.f Justice has ordered a new inquiry, to see if the vcidiet can he quashed. FRENCH MAGNATES. I’A IMS March 20. Official statistics show tiia! there arc 197 persons in France "ith incomes exceeding I .000.000 francs. These pay one-quarter of die country's total into me tax. VA I.CABLE I’ll FL'.IK. PAIM>. March 2G. j A cahiiietm.ihcr jon ha-ed in an eld | clothe- shop in Paris a picture representing the IPidism ol ( hii.-i. The ! picture has -ime Leen cicau.d, an. l ex- ! p rt' say that it is a sigiiid Rembrandt i dated 1010. li is c.-timaicd ;o 1-e Worth thirty thousand pound-. NAVAL RASE AT SI NO A CORE. * (Received this dav at B.fit) a.in.) LONDON, March 27. Mr Roiiar Law, replying to a question in ihe House id ('ominous, said that the general air and naval stall's who partiripaied in the disetission on tile proposal made by the Coiiiinitteo of Imperial Defence to build a naval base at Singapore at a cost, of L' 1.1,009,000, had approved of the decision. SCIENTIST DEAD. -1 LONDON. March 27. Obituary .lames Dewar, the scientist. AN ITALIAN CO.M.MK.MOR \TTON. (Received this day at 12. Pi p.m. ROME. March 27. Signur Mii.-soliui is reviving the fete to (.oiiimemoraU' the rape of SaLine women. Every Octol, r iwciily gill* of noted beauty will plant olives on Palatinate Hill. Each girl ’..i1l receive a ,State dowry and must marry a Roman youth. RUSSIAN PRIESTS’ SENTENCES. (Received this day at 12. lo p.m. MOSCOW. Miui'h 20. Tn connection with the Soviet's antiChurch movement, the Archbishop of Zepliak (Roman Catholic Primate of Russia) aged seventy and a priest named Budyeviti'h were sentenced lo death, (•'ifteen priests "ere sentenced to terms of imprisonment averaging three to| fifteen vc'is.

FLOODS ON TIGRIS. OREM DAMAGE DONE. tßeceived this day at 11.17 a.in.) LONDON, .March 27. The “Daily Afail's” Baghdad correspondent repents the river Tigris burst its lank- seventeen mile* north of Baghdad, which is almost an island. One hundred sqiini".. miles tf the surrounding oniiuti.v is Hooded and the civil g:v I wa- demolish: d. but the Jiiisouei's were saved. The artificial embankment* are holding around Baghdad and the civil and military < antoiiniculs me sale. King Faisal was responsible for the saving of his palace and the cultivated ground nearby, lie personally directed the bodyguard filling the I rcii' h in the embankment while an Arab Army .strengthened the weak points. Both the powerful Zab rivers between Baghdad and .Mosul ate pouring their swollen waters into the Tigris. It is impossible to repair the original breach until the river lias fallen. SOVIET DEKSEC UTION. fUNITED SERVICE TELEGRAMS.] (Received this day at 11.1.7 a.m.) LONDON. Afari-h 27. Tao “Daily .Mail's’’ Afo.-aow correspondent states that the Bolsheviks have decided on a great programme of the 1 ei'seeiition of all Christian Churches in Russia on the fust Sunnily after Easter. The Church Assembly has been summoned at wliieh the elections will he manipulated and the whole machinery of the church will he captured hy the Communists. At present all the Catholic Priests in Alosemv. l’etingiad. and Butyrka are imprisoned in Alrwnw on charges of holding <ounter revaliitionary meetings. LORD CARNARVON. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.i LONDON. Miinli 27. Cairo advices state that Lord Carnarvon is making steady progro'-s. LLOYD GEORGE'S ARTICLES. (Received this ilav at 1.30 j>.m.) LONDON. March 27. Air Lloyd George's next article will he published on April Ith. Thereafter fortnightly. lAIPERTAL HR ESS CONFERENCE (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.i LONDON. March 27. Mr Ormoshy Gore, replying to Mr Newton Griffiths in the Commons, sniff lie understood that the next Imperial Press Conference would be held in Australia in 1921.