MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1923, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AVSTIIALIAS AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. PILIN’UE OF AYAI.EB. VISITS BATTLEFIELDS. LONDON- May 2 The Prince of Wales alter a day at the Homme, has arrived at Amiens, dust (-evened. wearing black and white check cap and grey suit of old British yarn. Jle had laid a memorial wreath on Yimv Bulge, and during a long tour he went to almost every British cemetery. lie visited the held near St. Jan where he was nearly blown up during the war. He went also to a simple peasant dwelling where he had been billeted. Lord .Halsey said “ibis tour, to the Prince of AYaics was the most interesting lie had ever made. After a. rest the Prince went for a walk in Amiens streets, pausing outside the Cathedral (in which there are memoiials of Australia-, tlie Americans, Newfoundland, the Canadians, and the British), as if he were remembering the days of 1918 when the faint-hearted-feared Amiens could not- be saved.

EGYPTIAN TIM AT/. (Received this <lav at 10.45 a.m.) CAIIU), May 2. At the conspiracy case hearing, a witness who turned King's evidence, alleged three well known members ol the Zaghloulisl executive—El Basel Hey, Abd El Xur Bey, and Sheikh Eayyati, paid lor the Cairo murders. Abd El Xur Bey and Sheikh Khayyati are already under detention in connection will), the manifesto preceding the last bombing outrage at the barrat'ks.