MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1923, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. THE ARAB REVOLT. LONDON, Sept. IS. A Jerusalem communique says that aeroplanes co-operated but did not bomb or fire. One R.A.E. airman is slightly wounded. The ‘‘Daily Express’s” Jerusalem correspondent says the Adwen tribe is renewing attacks. Editorially, the same pa]>er says:— •‘lt will probably come as a shock to the Britisli public to learn that British aeroplanes, and possibly troops, as well, are involved in Trans-.lord.ania. If wc continue to Zionist* and Emirisc the Arabs, the British taxpayer will he dragged into a war costing millions.

THE BARON BLANTYRE.

CAPETOWN ,Sept. IS

The Nestor reports that wireless signals have elicited no reply from the missing steamer Baron Blantyre. Maritime opinion in Durban favours the theorv that she si ruck an iceberg.

KILLED ON HONEYMOON. LONDON, Sept. 13. Air Freeman, Mayor ofAlahlon, who was married yesterday amid a scene of local rejoicing, came to the Hotel Cecil for the night, being on route for Wales in the morning, iris wife temporarily went out of tho room, and her husband, in attempting to open a. win clow on the fourth floor, fell into the courtyard, from a height of 50 feet. He was killed. Bis wife is prostrated. Mrs Freeman left her husband sitting near the window smoking a. cigar he had just bought in the hotel lounge. Apparently he fell while attempting to lower the top sash by leaning outside.

TEACHERS ATTACKED

LONDON, Sept. 19

Bishop Welldon, former Headmaster of Harrow, speaking at the British Association, made a sharp attack upon the leaching profession. He complained that the State was not getting value for its money. The teachers had refused to share the national financial burden after the war. Some had actually gone on strike against a reduction in their salaries, to the great: injury of pupils. The elementary teaching profession, he said, should not he a trade union. A time would come when the system of education inaugurated in 1871 might well he reviewed, and brought into conformity with the aspirations of the people, who knew that character was a more valuable) clement than culture in the life of an Empire like ilie British Empire. RFUELS CAPTURE TOWN. MONTEVIDEO, Sept. 18. Zuarahy, in Brazil, lias been captured by’ 1800 Brazilian rebels, after a sharp tight. The commander of tho Government forces lias been captured, according to a telegram from the Uruguayan Consul.

GREEK A HUMAN KILLED. ATHENS, Sept. 19. Lieut. Stravropoulos, who was regard cd as the Greek ‘ Ace.’’ after looping several times in a strong wind, clashed, and was killed. EARTHQUAKE IN SICILY. LONDON,- Sept, 13. A message from Syracuse, in Sicily, reports a violent earthquake shock this morning. EGYPTIAN NATIONALIST DEADER CAIRO, Sept. .19. The Egyptian Nationalist leader, Taghlul Pasha, who has returned after iieing exiled, has had a memorable welcome. Large crowds in the streets were enthusiastic, hut were well behaved. WOMAN DOCTOR'S HEROISM. LONDON, Sept. 18. An epic of medical heroism lies behind Dm death, in Norwich, from cancer of Dr Margaret Boilenu. Knowing her condition to lie hopeless, she lor months past daily described her symptoms in the interests of medical research. Two women doctors, with whom she practised among London's poor, have collected the notes she gave of the progress of the disease which was killing her. These will probably tie published as a memorial of Dr Bov lcau’s unselfish courage.

ITALY AND SERBIA. GENEVA, Sept. 17

M. Jewanoviteh, the second member of the Jugo-Klnv delegation, declared that- tile new development nt Fill me had not affected tile question at present under negotiation between Homo and Belgrade. Jugo-Slavia desired to continue negotiations, and in the event of a failure the matter could be submitted to arbitration by the Swiss President, or the Council of the League of Nations.