BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION TRIAD OF VOROSKVS MFRDF.RF.R SEN SAT lONA E E VIDFNC E KXI’ECTED. this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON. October Id. The Central News Agency’s rorsospondent at Geneva says that about me hundred witnesses will he failed at the fortfieoniing trial *.I Courndi tor the murder of Vorosky at l.ansanue. I lie witnesses include member- ot the former Russian aristocracy, and diplomats, also a well known literary personage and prominent American army ollicors. It is exported the trial will cause some sensation.

GREEK MINISTERS RESIGN. {Received this day at 8 a.m.) ATHENS. October I I. The Ministers of the Interior. War, .lustier and Education have resigned, liufc the reason is not stated. AX IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY. /Received tin’s dnv at 8 a.m 1 BRUSSELS, Oct- M. The anniversary of the execution ot Nurse ('aveil was commemorated by an impressive ceremony at the pii.son of Saint Gillcs. The prisoners were permitted to view her cell, which unfilled with flowers. WIREI.ESS AND THE EMPIRE. CONFER UNCUS UXN F.CESS.V It Y. /R-ucsived this day at 8 a.m.5 EONDON, October M. lord Burnham, at Kingston-on-Thames. discussing wireless said: “We are on the eve ol a revolution regarding the means of communication. IL is conceivable that the Imperial Conference and such like gatherings would be tiuiieessary in ihe future as the members of the Imperial Parliament's might listen in when tire I’rime .Minister of Britain is making a speech of international or Empire importance. I 'ESTER'S POSITION. EONDON. Get. 11. Sir Janies Craig, speaking to the gatrison at Fermanagh, said he had .ids arrangements so that, if they were attacked and required the assistance ol the British Army they would gei: it. The great strength of Ulster lay in :Infant that no matter how the personnel of the British Government, nielil change. Ulster would never lie deprived o| assistance when it was required. THU STATUS OF TAXGIURS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) EONDON, October 11. The Foreign Office announces the Government has accepted an invitation from the French Government to send representatives to the conference nt Paris on October 22nd. regarding the Inline status of Tangiers. The Conference will he limited to representatives cl Britain France and Spain. Italy, lately has been representing, that she has the right of representation at the conference. •FOUE I’EAY SUSPECTED. [Reutkjss Tei.kcshams. J

'Received this day at B.fill a.m.) WARSAW. October BE The citadel explosion killed twentyeight, seriously injured forty-eight nod slightly injured cue humlreJ ami eleven. Foul play is suspected. THE CITADEE EXPLOSION. EONDON, Oct. I I. Warsaw messages now state that two hundred were killed and live hundred seriously injured in the explosion at the Citadel fort. MR ASQUITH TAUNTS GOVERNMENT.

Received this day at 8.30 a.tit.) LONDON, October 13.

Mr Asrjtiith in addressing a demonstration at Perth, under the auspices of the Scottish Liberal Federation, taunted, the Ooveniment anout lin I'urial preference and warned his heareis not to treat the matter too lightly because they would soon see that it was not merely a f|iiostiun ot currant buns and raisin’puddings. This policy would be an act of industrial suicide for Britain and it is a shallow falla.-v to suppose that Imperial trade is only ] ossiblo of development by fiscal tinkering. ATI! COMPETITOR KILLED. /Received this day at 8.50 a.m.) LONDON. October H In th o living contests nt l.ympne, tlm Frenchman, Maneyrol, in the first attempt in the altitude prize, reached ten thousand feet when the tW^ ri, l P l P° froze. He drifted seaward. Tint made a good landing. Tli e Britishers, Piercy and Hamniersle.v, claim that they reached thirteen and twelve thousand feet resepetively. Maneyrol. returning to the aerodrome after the second ascent, when seventyfive feet from the ground, the wing of his machine folded and he crashed. Maneyrol died in a few minutes. PEER'S BROTHER Cl I HIS THROAT. I.IONDON. October U. Nathaniel Rothschild, a brother I 1 ord Rothschild, was found with as throat cut in the bathroom ol >'>- country home at Astomvold. A LORD’S MARRIAGE. (Received this day at 10 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. PL Lord Clifton, heir to the E» rl ” f Danilov, has married Miss Nancy hulsoit at a London registry ouice.

DO PULE TAXATION ON SHIPPING. LONDON. Oct. LL < W ith a view to avoiding the duphea- , tmn of taxation on slopping, the Taxa- , ,in„ Committee ot the International Shipping Conference passed a resou- , ti oll in favour of the companies being 1 taxed only in the country nt residence and the test of residence to prevail over the Hag of the ship. DISEASE IN APPLES. LONDON. Oct. 11. It i> understood that Cambridge scientists investigating the brown lioart disease in apples are confident o discovering its cause and the method of eradication. PALL MALL GAZETTE. LONDON, Oct, LI. u is authoritatively staled that Lord Boavorbrook has purchased the ..pall Alall Gazette” which will be absorbed hv the ‘-Evening Standard. ITALIAN AIOYE. ROME. Get. 14. The Grand Council of the bascist ~i,rty has adopted a scheme of reorganisation, whereby the supreme leadership of the party is oil! rusted to a national directory of five members, chosen by Mussolini from the list proposed by the national council of the party to be held at Rome on Ist December, constituted by provincial secretaries, and nominated by Congress m provincial federation subject to approval of Alussolini. Meanwhile a provisional national directory will lie found.