BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

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[by TELEGRArn —rER TRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHINESE BANDITS. (Received this day at 9.45 a.m.) PEKING, Alay G. A thousand bandits, supposed to be disbanded troops, derailed and attacked the express train from Pukow to Tientsin at Linchong, Shantung, and carried off three hundred passengers, including a number of foreigners. One foreigner is reported killed and two Chinese seriously wounded. Six foreigners and twenty-three Chinese escaped. Government sent a special train to investigate and also wired the provincial authorities to take immediate steps to suppress the bandits and obtain the release of the captives, owing to the effect of the incident on foreign relations. AIR FLIGHTS. (Received this day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, Alay 5. Etienne Occlimiehen, a French engineer, again flew his helicopter, completing a circle of one hundred and twenty metres at a height; of two metros, clearing ground obstacles. The machine is fitted with four sustaining propellors, four evolution propollors, and one direction propeller and g’vroscopa for stability, and one hundred and twenty horse power motor. The inventor, Pescara, afterwards circled his helicopter sixty metres. Those are the first two circular (lights. CHURCH CONGRESS. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, Alay G. The All Russian Church Congress at -Moscow decided, almost unanimously, that Bishops l;o allowed to marry. The abolition of monasteries was carried by a large majority.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Way G. The League of Nations Union passed a resolution that in view- of the Saar ‘Commission’s motion cabled from the Commons of Alay Ist., the Council of tlie League should reconsider the membership of the Commission. PEARLS STOLEN. LONDON. Ala.v G. Seventy-three pearls valued at fifteen thousand sterling, were stolen from a registered packet, between l.nudon and Lisbon. They were addressed to Barcelona, hut when opened in Lisbon the packet was found to he empty. It has been cleverly rescaled. BRITISH POLITICS. (Received this dav at 8 a.m.) LONDON. Alay 5. Tho Berwick Unionist Assn, adopted as a candidate, Airs Phillipson, formerly Alabel Russell, the actress, in the bye-election caused by Use unseating of her husband who is a National-Liberal. Airs Ehilipsnn, who is very popular, says her chief idea in standing is to try to hold the scat until her husband can contest it again, which is not imfil this Parliament ceases. She is a Conservative, hut does, not think there i < much difference between the Dai lies nowadays, except the Labour party. CROSS-CHANNEL CLIDE KAILS (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON. Alay 5. An attempt by Georges Burbot to win a prize of twenty-five thousand francs offered by I.e Temps for a crossChannel flight ill a glider failed after lie had been in the air for two hours. Ascending at Saint Inglevert for Eympiie with a fifteen Imrse power engine. the small supply of petrol allowed. carried him two thousand icet up. Crowds at Cape Crisoe watched Burbot hovering. Two seaplanes, which weir expected to accompany the glider, lull ctl to appear, and Burbot was. forced to make a descent, hut his long hovering in the air was in itself a feat.