BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION, A BIG SWIM. LONDON, 'August 12. Tirn.bo.schi (an Argentinian) swam from Calais to Dover. Time 993 minutes, a record. He swam strongly all the way. A FRENCH SENTENCE. (Received this day at 10.45 a.in.) LONDON, August 12. According to a- Dusseldorf telegram a roili-martial at Landau sentenced two directors of Badixcho Aniline Company to six years, for re rasing to n.-si-t the French authorities in the seizure of dyestuffs. SEIZURE OF ARMS. ;Received -his dav at 9.25 a.m.) ROME, August 12. Italian authorities at Trieste seized a steamer about to leave Pola for .TugmXlavisfi laden with a million rifles, three thousand machine guns and twenty four mountain batteries, and also detained .several persons including a well known agitator in touch with the Communists. The arrestees state they purchased surplus materials from various military depots for three million lire and wore to obtain ten million for the stuff in Belgrade.

YACHTING. 'Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON. Aug. 10. Britain won the third of a series ot six international races for the liritisliAinerion C up at Cowes, with 23 points. America 13. The total points in the three races sailed are Britain ,2. Amelia 3li.

BIG BELGIAN LOAN. BRUSSELS. Aug. 11. Negotiations are practically completed for the i-site of a Belgian loan. BARIS, Aug. 11. A five hundred million Irane loan i to lie issued. It is intended to smash the offensive against the Belgian Irane. The Government also propose a rest notions of imports in order, to cheek lhe fall of the franc.

A GIRL SWIMMER.. NEW YORK, August 12. Virginia Whitcnack. aged fifteen, ha set a world's record by swimming lyards ill thirteen minutes, thirty ice onds.