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Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N 7.. CABLE ASSOCIATION. german statistics. (Received this day nt 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, duly 12. A Cologne message says that at the close of six mouths of occupation ol the Ruhr tin* German authorities have issued statistics showing that Frame’s and Belgium's army in the Ruhr legion totalled eighty-seven thousand and in the old occupied arm there rr>- uuietyseven thou.and. Then* are leu til m-ntd French and a thousand Belgian rail way men in the Ruhr. Nineiy-lv.o Germans have been killed and 75.711 made hotceie-while 100

schools have been tequi.-,t ioned causing fifty thousand scholars to crowd into otbe: s. There have been nine death senteneos hv court martial wheted one was carried out. SPANISH MILITARY DISASTER. (Received this dav at 11.15 a.m.) MADRID. July 12. After a protracted (irc-us-imi Parliament agreed t-> toe appointment el a Commission representative of nil parlies to eiKjUire into the military disaster in Morocco. TRANSPORTERS I!KOI EST. ’LONDON. July 12. The Transporters C'ontereiwe passed a resolution demanding an international agreement, based on Germany's ability to pay reparations, and an indemnity in order that the free tlov of mterlintioiial trade be resumed, and requesting Premier Baldwin to convene a world conference, including Germany and Russia. MOTOR RACING'. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON. July 12. While Captain .Miller was motor-rac-ing at lirotiklands, travelling at Pinnies per hour, the offside rear tyre peeled off and struck him on tin* head, rendering him uneimsein,.--. The moenauie took the wheel and drove the (ar into the paddock. Captain Miller recovered in nine minutes and resumed racing. lie heat all the hour records from 1 to 9 and all the hundred mil ■ j records from 1 to 7. the averac" speed for the nine hours being 95', miles pci hour.

MR l.I.OYl) GEORG EM ARTK I.E. (.Received this day at 9.15 a.m.) LONDON. July 12. Mr Lloyd George's 22nd. article advocates that the Zionists should undertake tile restoration of Palestine as a Jewish nation. BISHOPS OPINION. (Received this day at 9. 15 a in.) LONDON. July 12. The Bishop, of Zanzibar at the AngloCatholic Congress, said that London was as pagan as Zanzibar, our Lord being forgotten, in a way that simply staggers us. He a! terwunts explained that materialism was spreading and the people were growing mdiff'LTcut to spiritual life.

THE ART FRA CDS. '.Received tins day at 9.25 a.m.) PARIS, July [n con licet ion with the Inked statues, an art dealer, M. Demotte. who sold to Louvre the mediaeval statues under suspicion, is prosecuting M. \ igouroiix .lus New ) ork agent, lor alleging that he did not return tie- full priro for the works -old to the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York ami other American clients. Demotte allege- that Yigounmx received Ag.: > dollars for a mediaeval fragment and he only accounted ior lljoil dollar-. Yiguuroux, in an aggressive defence, accused DemoUe ol making a regular business of selling faked antiques tu America- and 'Franco. Demotte retorted that Yiguuroux i- a rascal. The accused rejoins!: ”)ou are Ike I tpge-t faker in the world.’’ Other witnesses said that art. dec! r.employed so* iei.v people ns iuteimediaries who often received hi tv pm ( cut. of the price paid. F.X-FNKMY TENNIS PLAYERS. (Received this day at 9. In a.m.) CAPETOWN. July 12. The English Lawn Tennis AsMieiatmn having declined to compile in I 'ie Olympic Games owing to ex-enemy plovers participating, the South Atri- , ail Lawn Tennis Union, which i- affiliated with the English As.-ueiatnm. discussed the question and decided to ask the English authorities for a Dec-hand and intimated that if permission wete refused it would abide by the decision of the English Association.