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Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ETNA IN ERUPTION. ROME, May 25. Mt. Etna continues to threaten an eruption, the crater of which opened in 1911.’ Tlio renewed activities are accompanied by loud roarings and the throwing of incandescent matter to a great height. A lava stream 10 yards wide is advancing slowly, hut continuously.

STEAMERS COLLIDE. 'Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, May 27. The Canadian Pacific Company’s twelve thousand ton liner Mctagama, carrying a thousand emigrants, who an hour previously had said goodbye to friends oil the Glasgow wharf, collided on the river Clyde with the steamer Baron Vernon, whose port how was stove in. The emigrants who were mostly unpacking were thrown across their cabins. Men, women, and children rushed to the upper decks where thev were reassured. Ihe .Mctagama, whose hows were damaged, was swung round, and returned to Glasgow, where some of the emigrants transfer to the Montrose, it is expected that repairs to the Mctagama will he completed to enable the Metagama to sail on Tuesday. The Baron Vernon was beached. BULGARIAN REVOLT. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, May 2i,. A message from Bucharest, via Kaalshad, reports a revolutionary outbreak in Bulgaria. The Premier is in the fight, having been sentenced to death by revolutionaries. It is reported many revolutionaries were killed or arrested. The position is critical. UNREST IN CHINA. R EVOLUTION PR EDICT ED. [united service telegrams.] (Received this da.v at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 27. The "Daily Mail’s” Pekin correspondent says tunt events in Northern China point to another revolution shortly. One hundred and twenty thousand unpaid mercenaries are believed to have been won over to the M.unarohist pic* engineered by Chaugtsolin, a former Governor. Th? Manchurian head of the Chines© Royal family is Puvi, and he is still known as the hoy Emperor. He is Jf> years old. Last year he married the beautiful daughter of a somewhat c>'>scure Manehu officer.

All China is seething with unrest, and popular feeling is favourable to any change in the provincial and central Governments. Apparently Chaugtsolin is awaiting a favourable opportunity hi press Puyi’s claims. BOMB OUTRAGE. WARSAW, May 2(i By a bomb outrage at Warsaw Univorsitv. one prolessor was critically wounded. He had both legs blown off. Several students were wounded. WARSAW, May 27 The bomb outrage followed two similar explosions a't Careow. It is believed to be tho work of the Communists. DUCHESS OF YORK. LONDON, May 20. It is officially announced that the Duchess of York is suffering from a mild attack of whooping cough. SUPPORTER OF BRITISH POLICY. LONDON, May 27. Mrs Phillip Snowden has returned from a tour of Palestine. She says she interviewed two hundred roprosntHtiv-cs. of all commuuit ie.-. She is a whole-hearted -_up porter of tin British policy in Palestine, and she believes that the evidence in favor of a national home for Jews is overwhelming. The opposition comes from a small part of the population. Ihe most influential oppositionists are Christians and not Moslems. AIR, SERVICE TO INDIA. PARTICULARS OF SCHEME. (Received this day at 9.15 a m.) LONDON, May 27. The “Sunday Express” says that there is every prospect of Mr Burney s scheme regarding the airship service to Australia being accepted by the British Government during the coming week. * Burney expects to star? operations about this time next year with a biweekly passenger service from London to Bombay and Into in the summer of 1924 he will start a bi-weekly service to Perth. The airships will Have two passenger decks connected hv a lilt, one containing the living quarters and the other whro the passengers can take the air. There will be sheds at the termini and port Said and at the other stations en route there will be giant towers, to which the airship* will he attached. 1 he towers may turn with the prevailing wind, and the passengers and supplies will embark and disembark by a hit running through the centre of the towers- . , . The motive power of the airships will he a noninllainmable mixture ol kerosene and hydrogen.