MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1923, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABI.E ASSOCIATION. BOMBING TRIALS. LONDON, Aug 3. The bombing trials on the Agamemnon were resumed at Portsmouth, six aeroplanes dropping -18 bombs at 8000 feet. There were two direct hits, and 10 within 20 feet. Attacks at fourteen thousand feet were again abandoned owing to the unfavourable weather. Tbe Air Force is well satisfied with the performance. which is all advance on last year’s trials. UNEMPLOYED WOMEN. LONDON. Aug 3. The Parliamentary Labour Party’s unemployment committee is profoundly dissatisfied with tbe Government's programme. It declares that practically nulling has Ih*oii done to provide industrial employment or training in domestic work tor tin- rpiarter of a million unemployed young women. The committee proposes an expenditure of at least sixty million sterling upon the improvement of railway and canal systems, and other public works.

BENEFICIAL MONSOON

DELHI. Aug. 3. Tbe monsoon was generally favourable. Its distribution was good and the fear of drought in certain districts has passed. Tbe crops generally are good, except in tbe Hyderabad district and tbe .Madras Presidency. FAIIMY BEY'S FINER A L. CAIRO. Aug. t. Falimy Rev, who was shot at London. was buried at Cairo. Ibe coliin. draped with silver tissues and surmounted hv a crimson fez, was borne through the streets. One bundled little girls carried wreaths and candles. ■ and Ins favourite limousine followed in the rear. CONFERENCE CONCLUDES. GENEVA. Aug. 3. The ex-service experts' conference has reminded. It decided that employment should lie found by employment exchanges lor disabled men, and also that tbe disability pension should equal those of current uninjured workers. AGAINST SOVIETISM. /Received this day at. 9.2 d a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 0. A conference of the Social Democratic Federation which is notable for the wholehearted denunciation of Sovietism, passed a resolution condcminug the terrorist methods of the Soviet Government and suppression of the essential rights oi democracy, winch was a danger not only to Russian workers hut to the vital interests of the international proletariat. PICTURE THIEVES. (Received this day at 8.50 a.m.') LONDON, Aug. fi. Burglars entered Kendall's Hall, Hertfordshire and cut out of the frame and carried oil' a valuable painting by Guido Reni. an Italian seventeenth century master. 'I hey cut another painting out ot the triune hut leli it. apparently finding the canvas 100 still to roll up. This is the second theft of old masters in the district within a fortnight. Similar burglaries elsewhere indicate another expert gang is opera! ing.

PUSSYFOOT AT ( APETOWN

( APETOWN. Aug. ti Mr Pussyfoot Jenson has arrived to inaugurate a prohibition campaign.

BULGARIAN UNREST. (Received this day at 9.0 a.m.) LONDON. Aug. (i. Tlie “limes' 1 special correspondent at Sofia says relations between the Governmei | | and Communists are daily lic cum ing more -trained. ( nmmuiiiH leaders are spreading prapaganda among the peasants to incite them against ( lie authorities. I hey have also appealed to uoii-Communist artisans and workmen, inviting them to cooperate against the present regime. News from the provinces indicates the Agrarians are recovering from the fright occasioned through the events of the 9th June, and are beginning to reorganise, showing unlavournhle disposition towards tbe Government.

RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA. LONDON. July G. The ‘T.)nil,v Telegraph” Sofia correspondent states the seizure of the records of the Russian Red Coras disclosed that the so-called mission is a disguised Bolshevist organisation for carrying mi subversive propaganda in P.nl-ga-ria and neighbouring countries.

THE CALCUTTA MURDER. (Received this day at 11.15 a.m.) DELHI, August G. There have been a liunßicr i f arrests following on the murder ot tin* t alcutta postmaster and these have disclosed the existence of a* revolutionary society and resulted in the seizure of much Bolshevik revolutionary literature, also a quantity of poisonous drugs. The arrested persons, it is reported include the leader and the secretary of the society to whom a number of recent outrages and murders in Calcutta are attributed. moss channel swimming. (Received this day at lI.Jo a.m.) LONDON. August 0. The Channel swimming season has opened and Henry Sullivan, an American started from Dover on his seventh attempt. The latest advices report that fie is six miles from Grisnez and is going well. Mrs Corson, another American. started later ami her husband is accompanying her in » rowing heat with a gramophone to encourage hot. The third competitor is a Frenchman named IVrrault. who started from hast Cape, but he abandoned the attempt after twelve hours and when five miles from Folkestone.

WOMKN'S Dt.K-SS RF.GFLATTON.n (Received this day at 12 noon;. iroMK, Aug. o. The Rapai Mainr Homo has issued regulations relating to the dress ol women desirous of audiences with the Pope. They provide that ladies must wear dresses covering their arms to the wrist and neck to the chin, reaching to the ankles and made ol material Mono is not transparent, and not giving undue prominence, to tlie figure. Gloves arc prohibited. Hair dye is allowed, providing it is not of a tuii.-picuoiis peroxide tint.