BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAIILE ASSOCIATION. EMPIRE FOREIGN POLICY. (Received this day at 10 a.in.) LONDON, Au(4. 29 Discussing the problem of the fintisii Foreign Policy the "Daily News” refers to the increasing demand that the Dominions he consulted in matters of moment like relations with Egypt, the f|uarrel with Turkey and the roeonst ruction of Europe. The paper says that Home statesmen would do well to remember that the Dominions are now I ally "town and claim an equal share ol the responsibility in Empire policies. If what they claim as a right is denied them, even as a. matter of goodwill, then it will no longer he possible to rely on their close co-operation in a national oniergcncy or the conduct of Imperial affairs. Another Chanuk incident would intolerably strain the loyalty of out oversea kinsmen, possibly ending in utter disaster.

BYE-ELECTION. (Received this day at 10.45 a. 111.) CAPETOWN, A tie. o< I Oovermueiit lost the. sent at Turfott loir bye-olection, .Major Hunt (Independent being elected. WIRELESS STATION. (Received this dnv at 11.15 a.in.) CAPETOWN, Aug. ”0 The site of a new high power wireless station lias been selected at Kliphcnvcl. thirty miles from Capetown, ll will be 750 kilowatts and it will have sixteen masts eight hundred feet high in it circle 1} miles in diameter.

TEA SALES. (Received this dnv at 11.15 n.nt.) DELHI, Aug. 20. At the tea sales at Calcutta the quality generally for good grades was strong and demand for all classes especially good liquoring sorts at improved rates. Dusts showed a distinct advance. A POISON .MYSTERY. [united service tki.euiiams.] (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) LONDON. Aug. 20. The Daily .Mail's” Vienna correspondent states that one of the strangest poison mysteries in modern times is completely baffling the police. There hits already been eleven victims, seven ol whom are dead.

The central figure in the tragedy is Joseph .Mold, a Roumanian railway oflieial, who is at present in prison, charged with poisoning five persons, including his brother, woo was a witness against him in au embezzlement charge.

Since Mold hits been in prison live other witnesses were strangely stricken by poison, administered by au unknow 11 Itaitcl. Recently a secret service man was sent specially from Bucharest, but he collapsed after drinking codec 111 a public restaurant. The colfee contained billadona, but he recovered. Dining in another restaurant lie collapsed, in convulsions, All analysis showed that in the soup there was sufficient arsenic to kill fifty. The latest victim is 11 railway official who collapsed alter smoking a cigar, which was taken from his own private and locked cabinet. The cigar was impregnated with bclladona.

JAPANESE PREMIER'S I'LN Eli AI

(Received this dav at 10.25 a.m.) TOKYO, Aug. 2!).

The funeral of the Premier was held with Shinto rites and full naval honours befitting the rank of a Elect Admiral Flags were flown half-mast on the warships, which fired a salute at the time of the ceremony. A. ceremonial was carried out at the eflieiul residence, being attended by rereproscutatives ol their .Majesties am! Regent Princes. Kanin, Nasitimotu and Kavs. who personally attended. Inc Diplomatic Corps, members of the Cabinet and others were also present, whereafter the public were admitted to pay a tribute to the dead statesman. The interment was purely a family alfair.

KLI.IS ISLAND COMI’LAINT. (Received tliih day at. 10.25 a.in.) CARKTOWN, Aug. 20. A latter from u man rejected by the American authorities on F.llis Island makes sweeping allegations. He states children and others died like Hies Ihe I'ood was unlit for dogs and everybody was treated like dogs, herded together under filthy conditions; 320 men slept iu one dormitory ; numbers were diseased and filthy. There was no bath or lavatorv and they were locked up the whole time excepting for one hours airing daily. INDIAN NKWS. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) DKLHT, Aug. 20. Mohammed Ali, Khalifat leader, has been released after two years imprisonment. on a charge of sapping n lovaltv of troops. Provincial comm - te'es are adopting resolutions recommending him for the Presidency ot the Khalifat Congress.