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Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1923, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION. PAY IN THE NAVY. LONDON. June 20. The Select Committee on tlto Naval Estimates recommends that the officers' and men's pav should be reviewed in 192-1. The Committee is of the opinion that the administrative staff needs reorganisation and reduction. The report points out that the seamen’s pay is still one hundred and fifty per cent, above pro war, and the men are still receiving post-war marriage allowances, costing millions annually, while there is only one sixth of the officers at present whose pay is liable to reduction. MURDER MYSTERY. GLASGOW POLICE FIND. LONDON, .lime 21 The Glasgow police have made the sensational discovery of the body ol a murdered boy. aged twelve, which was being wheeled in a perambulator through a busy street by a young woman. The body was wrapped in a bed mat. It is believed that a previous attempt had keen made to burn the body, the hair on the seal]) being singed. The woman, who was accompanied by her small daughter, was arrested. The police believe the buy was strangled at Coatbridge, twelve miles from Glasgow and that the body was being taken in the pram in order to he disposed of in Glasgow. The motive is a mystery. The early arrest ol a man is expected. 11.M.5. NEW ZEALAND SOLD. LONDON. June 21. The Naval Committee report says the warship “New Zealand." which cost the N.Z. Government £1.7U0.000, has been sold to a British firm tor breaking no. She was sold for £22.(MMI. Ibe New Zealand (adds the report) was not auctioned. Alter the Washington Conference decisnou. it was decided to scrap, her and also many other ships immediately, which glutted the market and depreciated the price. PRACTICE FOR. WAR. LONDON. June 21. In the presence of thousands of people. lining the foreshore, -ix aeroplanes carried out a trial attack on tin* Atlantic Elect at Veymouh on Wednesday night, using aerial torpedoes. All the shins’ lights were put out. and the aeroplanes though they Me" low. had the greatest difficulty in .-potting their targets.

The “Daily Express” states that at Weymouth, three out nf six dummy torpedoes hit the Queen Elizabeth, tile Valiant and another warship during the night attack. BRITAIN’S All! EE ELI’S. LONDON. June 21. A mystery surrounding the new equipment- for the Ri val Air I'oree lias been lifted sufficiently to show that the now machines are such as would have staggered the imagination only a year ago. It includes machines which (tv with full military equipment, men. and munitions at it speed of lot) miles an hour at a height of over lO.tlitOft. capabale of twisting and turning with extraordinary facility. Ihe experts an 1 gratified witli tlie results of the experiments'. In tin* Naval Department the latest types ol torpedo carriers are the Llaek--I,'urit “dan” and the Handley Page “ I laniley.” Until are sing!.* -eaters, with a speed of one Hundred mile- an lieur. Several other type- are ready, which, it is considered, will place Engaind a head of all **ih‘ r e over- in aircraft. OPERA SINGER'S SON. PARIS. June 21. .Mademoiselle Marl he Cheital. a w ellknown opera singer. wo- tieheroine of a comic opera law-nit. A hosiery csiabli-hmeiit in the khanii)El.vsccs sued her to r. ciic. r lon pounds, the cost of a parrel of snicking- which the firm alleged Milbe ( lietuil had ordered. The stockings were an out size, and were titled with ail clastic device to prevent their bursting when used on exceptionally .-lout legs. Mademoiselle Martin* indignantly denied that slu* could ever have ordered such goods. Alter bearing the evidence of both parties, tbe judge decided that he must personally see tbe stockings fitted. The evidence of his eyes convinced him that they could never hinny use to Mdlle Cheiutl. Tbe verdict was given in her favour. BY E-ELECTION. LONDON, June 22 The Morpeth liyc-olerlinn has resulted : Mr Robert Smillic (Labour) 20,053. .Mr E. ('. Thnrnbnrough -Liberal) 13,087. SOCIALIST MINISTERS. PARIS. June 21. The Radical Socialist Ministers state that it is not intended to obey tile Party's call to resign from the Ministry. JAPAN AND SOVIET. TOKYO, June 21. Baron L’chida. has issued a statement. that Japan will not grant recognition to the Russian Soviet Government iink-s.s Russia settles tor the massacre of Japanese in Nikolaievsk. and recognises the debts incurred under the Tsar's regime. Till-: SMALLPOX OUTBREAK.

(Received this dav at 8.30 a.in.) I .ON DON. June 22 The sensational situation concerning the smallpox at Gloucester lies in the fact that tho authorities knowing thev haul an epidemic perinilted a trade lair to l,c held, at which thousands from all parts of the country attended. Accusations have been made that there was an attempt to conceal the position, because ii would be detrimental to the trade of the city. Cases believed to have hail their source in Gloucester, have been reported in London. Liverpool and Cardiff.