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Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1923, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

IUSTHAI.IAN A N I) N. / . CABLE ASSOCIATION. DOCK STRIKE. LONDON, July 16 Owing to there being no str money or unemployment pay, : the rlockers in London are slowly drifi.nJT back to work. The situation has also improved because the shipping companies are using their permanent staffs to shift cargo. At Hull, the dockers, however, continue soil'd against restarting work. FATAL DUEL. MOSCOW, July 15. Tertolf, on a charge of murdering Dyokonoff in a duel on July 4, was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. Nina .Moehevilli, a stage beauty, over whom the men quarrelled. was acquitted on a charge of complicity. ITALIAN POLITICS. HOME, July 15. In the Italian Chamber, Signor Mussolini declared that he was much surprised that the Deputies were so preoccupied about electoral reform when serious international problems pressed upon the whole world, especially that of the Ruhr regarding which Italy nad taken up an autonomous position, and was resolved to safeguard her interests with energy. He hoped shot t---ly to speak in the Chamber upon this question, unless the Chamber preferred to commit suicide.

A £so,fX>o,ooo I.OAX. LOXDOX. July 13. Mr Cosgrove, President of the Irish Fiee Statu, spoil king at Galway, said that tln> Free State Government would shortly lie appealing to the Irish nation to wipe out- its £50,000,000 of debt, due to destruction by Republicans during the last 18 months. All parties must now iciogiiise the courts of justice. Adequate punishment would bo ‘ meted out to all offenders. Any hunger strikers would continue such striking at their own peril. The Civic Guards, he stated, were acting with the greatest efficiency in "all parts of the country. Mr Hogan, Free State Minister of Agriculture, stated that the Hand BiU would become law in one month. I hen the landlord system would lx* completely abolished.