BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. STORMS IN SWITZERLAND. GENEVA. Aug. Id. Whole cantons have been devastated hy fierce storms. Villages are Hooded by mud and gravel swept from the mountains. BULL-EIGHT DISASTER. PARIS. Aug. IG. Emir men were killed and twentylive injured at a bull-light in F'ottrqueux. A largo crowd attended the light. The third bull proved unusually furious. It leaped the barricade into the midst of the spectator.'. A panic followed and the stands collapsed, a number of tile spectators being trampled to death. The bull escaped, and is still at large. ALPINE TRAGEDY. GENEVA. Aug. Hi. Two Frenchmen, one Swiss, and two guides were making an ascent ot Mont Blanc. Ail were roped together. One of them slipped, and the whole party were dashed to death in a ravine one thousand feet below. DISARM A.MEM .

COPENHAGEN. Aug. Hi. The fnter-l’nriinineninry Congress adopted a motion moved by Mr.l. Butler, a member of the British House of Commons, promising to support any plan under which prompt and effective disarmament could be assured bv a mutual guarantee, treaties, or by the institution on a reciprocal basis of a domilatarized zone along the most dangerous frontiers. aviator killed. PARIS, August Id. All aviator named I leimeidiiigei, in attempting a (light in a. glider near Cherbourg, crashed and was killed. THE MANDATES. COPENHAGEN. August to. The Inter-Parliamentarian Union Congress, which is attended hy seven Hundred delegates, representing thirty nations, discussed the questions of Parliamentary control, foreign )o!iec and colonial mandates under the League of Nations, which were referred to standing committees. Dr. Gothpin (Germany) complained that Germany was excluded from the Colonial mandates, despite her excellent administration of iter colonies.

A VARIED CAREER. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON. August 1.. The “Daily Express" announces the death of Estcrhazy of Dreyfus drama fame, lie lived lirst in Soho and later at St. John’s Wood where he travelled for the sale of tinned goods and foreign delicacies. Then ho seems to have struck a, fortune and lie built a house in Ilarpenden where he lived under the assumed name of Count Devailenient.