BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

ATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ENGLISH WO .MAN AH DUCTED. FURTHER PARTICULARS. DELHI, April 20. It. is not clearly proved that the abduction of Mis, Ellis was an attempt to prevent punishment for what is known as the I'oulkes’ outrage, committed two years ago. in eoiiiieetioii with which the tribesmen had been brought t.o hook. The lilt,’ll settlement ami payment ol a hue nf twelve thousand rupees ami t lie surrender of nth -b> l lie Tirak Jownki tribesmen was to have been completed on Alum lav. but apparently the tribesmen ad..nod the desperate c xpedient e.f abducting the English wo--111;;u. holding her as a ho Lege tor tlieir own safety and the safety of their relations ; lready in the Government’s hands. THE .MISSING GIRL. DELHI. April 21. There is no lurtm r new s ol the whereabouts of .Miss Ellis, who tvie abducted at night, and her mother killed. I,y .ARidi trillOsuioH. Two i.mtier tribes who are lighting beyond Kohal Pa-s have arranged a temporary truce to enable them to join tribal operations initiated with a view to rescuing .Miss Ellis. ORDER RESTORED. DELHI. April Amritsar reports state that order liaIn cii restored and liiMiie-s i-• resuming. hut t lie (it y is si ill >ii the ha nils of the military police. Two hundred wounded were treated in the hospitals. FREIGHTS REDFCEI). BIG WAGES HILL. LONDON. April 22. Freights on agricultural products have been reduced from seventy-live lo fifty per cent above pre-war rates and general wierchandiso freights to sixty per cent above pre-war rates, except coal. Iron ore. steel and similar heavy goods. Since November 11)21 the reductions Hi goods, passenger rates, and (loco (lues have cost the companies £35.GK).().'t) yearly. The present comc-snais bring tlie cost up to £4-[.t>:>!).t)L'i though the wages, Bill is still Lit! per cent, above the pre-war level and wages form two-thirds of the total railway cost. NEW SHIPS FOR AUSTRALIAN TRADE. LONDON, April 20. r }Te, Peninsular Company sgl.tlcD tunnel- Alaloja. for the Australian trade, lias bee lihiliiirhed at Robust while the Nordd cut sober i.k> \ d’s i.tidu igslta fen, 7o!X! tons has been 1 lunched at Krupns Germania yards at Ixiel.andis schedo.u > start for Australia on the Kith. June. The Deutsche Aostraliselu s Gera of OtlfK) tolls ha- also br-eu launched at Hamburg. BRITISH I‘OLTIICS. A HY.E-ELKCTION. LON DON. Api i! 21. 'the Ludlow b.y-eleciUu lias result'd: Col. Clive (Conservative.) ... HD <0 .Mr pry; e (Liberal I f “T.I Air Pollard (Labour) ' ,2 ' J THE ROYAL AYKDDING.

LONDON.' A prii 21. Elaborate prepai ali-'.lis are being mad.: to deal wit.ii traffic at ihe Royal wedding. Nearly nine Cna sand police including one thousand specials, are engaged. "Traffic all! i - ■’..pended at Ihe nppreacln - n We-lmimter Abbey, nun o'clock in the morning. The bride's trousseau includes a day gown of chic navy poplin, and oi a simple straight design, with a rather hndi neck, and opening down tlie cent re. The bodice is outlined with gold embroidery, terminating at Hie waist ill a gold-embroidered ornament of Egyptian design, beneath which is tlie fulness of the bodice. 'Hio dialed sleeves arc long and t pen to the elbow. and are embroidered with a hi. The skirt- has a slightly open belli, upwards, in front, revealing an umlerdi'ess of black satin. A BRITISH PROTECT. LONDON. April 21. The British Foreign Office has ] retested to the French Government against its recent older, prohib" mg t!:e ixpart to Hritaiu of British shell steel scrap, resulting Horn the breakurn up of Briti-U shell dumps m Frame. A strange feature i- thal the French Government, at the same Gi"u . bus waived ill export prohibitum so far as Belgium and Italy are compiled. AI. Poincare attempts to jr.-tii.' this action on the grounds cf national expediency, but he is silent on the point of discrimination between the Allies. FA SC IST I IN SCOTLAND. LONDON, April 21. The Scottish Trade Onion Congress at Dundee has protested against the formation of a Fasci-ti movement m Scot land, and has instructed Us council to ascertain the extent of this movement, and to take every precaution to safeguard the iutere-fs of m worker-. Ah- "ipil>" Smilhe in an address -aid Revolution is not welcome to Labour, but it would be to the other mde lie urged Ibe country to send an avalanche of Labour! l es -o as to obliterate the capitalist class m tlie House of Commons. A SCOTTISH INDICTMENT. LONDON, April 21. The Lord-Provost of Glasgow declaros; _ "The unemployment dole lias ihe greatest demoralising (dlect on H>° eommuiiitv. Hundreds of peopb- Day in bed, declaring that it R unuece-sary to work.” He said he lmd been struck 11V extraordinary evidence oi the incurable disea-e of British laziness. INDIAN EX 11 GST. OAI.CTTTA, April 21 Tniere-ting details have been received of Gluimli from an Indian printei and publisher, who was sentenced to prison at the same time a- Ghnndi. lmt who has now been released Gliamli. he says, receives all ihe toad a-kod for, and has an unlimited supply of books, as he had complained of mental starvation and unnecessary Nation. Ghaiuli's views have undergone m. change. He still holds to his old programme. He spins daily for hours, but otherwise is largely occupied m reading religious book.-. J MI’R ITS lb' E ( Ell G.MOXY. PARIS, April 22. There was an impre—ive ceremony at the Japanese Embassy prior to the departure of the remains o! Prince Kita for Japan.