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Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1923, Page 3

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NOTH TO ( lII.NKSr; OOVI.KX.MKXT [ i: Kl-TKUM Tki.kckams.J (llcceived tins i.lav ;o 10.10 si. in.) IM'.KIX. Xuv. 22.

Doctor Sehmalzried who was captured h.v brigands on the l.'ith Nov. on the Kwi'iehou -Iliman hnrder. belonged to Tnngjcn. The American Charge I)'Affaires addressed a note to Waieliiaop prolesling against the failure of the authorities to protect the mi-•iniiarie-in the interior, asking the Governnient to communicate with the provincial authorities requesting that every possible measure he taken to secure Dr Kciimalzried's release; also to protect other missionaries in Tnngjcn. FDODDS IN INDIA. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) DEBUT, Nov. 22. Floods have devastated eight hundred square miles hetween Rerhnmporo and Yi/.ianagrani, destroying houses, crops, cattle and railways. There has been no communication with .Madras lor a fortnight.

NEWS DAI’EI! I! I YA DRV. (Received this day at 12 noun). DON DON, Nov. 22. I he ".Morning Post’s” correspondent at Duxor reports that the Premier told a deputation of Egyptian journalists that he would arrange for al! reports ol the work a: I ut'inkhaim o' tomb to he puhli-heil in llie Cairo paper before appearing in the London "Times,'’ He promised equality of treatment lor all Egyptian papers a-, well as foreign journa'i .1 .. I) FI ITS TO I'.S.A. IT I K 1-11 K.NCII V I KW. ["The Times” Service.] Piece ; vet! this day at 9.0 a.in.) PARIS. Nov. 22. Reports from Washington state that the American Debt, Funding (uintnission may ask Fiance and the other countries to arrange to fund then debts due to the I'niled States, are arousing eonsiilerahle interest. The I’l'Clieh do let intend In repudiate He* debt, but it is argued that the money owing to America was borrowed to meet war expenses i-arried in a common cause and that a dist int i ion should he made hetween such debts and the reparations debt owed by Germany. France should not I. ■ asked to pay the debt to America before the German payment ol the reparations is assured.

('OAI A! CX IST Ai AN I FF.ST’O. (Received this day at ft.O a.m.) LONDON. Nov. 22. The Communists’ election manifesto demands the eonliscat ion of all the idle factories, a minimum wage of foil” pounds sterling weekly, a -ixliour working day, full maintenance of the unemployed, housing for nil, ami a workers’ goverumenl. NEWS AIMH "F MR MASSEY. (Received this day at 10.10 a.m.) LONDON. Nov. 23. Air Bruce and Air Alassey agree on the value of the Karl of Cavan's visit to Australasia. They think it highly desirable that the chief of the Imperial General stall' should have an opportunity of seeing the outposts so as to gain first-hand iuiorinat ion which will he useful in the matter ol defence, although in accepting the invitation, the Karl of Cavan will hold no missions to report on Antipodean defence.

Air Ma.sxov is contributing a special article on Xcw Zealand to the next edition of Whitaker’s Almanack. .Mr Alasse.v lias also received the original ol an interesting hitter "titton in IHTI l:.v a member ot a A nrksbire family, "bo made a trading venture from Svdnev t■ > the Rav ol islands and ibe Rav of I’b-nlv. in which the writer, long sime deml. described the emmibal pr.aet.iee- lie "fitness, -d alter a light against tin- Xgaptlhi l rihe. lath BOXAK RAW’S KSTATK. LONDON. Nov. ■2-2. Air Eonar Lnw’N will provides for the division of iiix estate equally among Ins lour children, hut the amount is not disclosed. RKSTITI'TIOX DF.OKF.F. I! l-’.FFSKD. fßeceived this day at 10.di a.m.) Air .Justice Mill, in refusing a restitulion decree to Airs llarnett. expressed the opinion that the petitioner had shown no sincere desire for restit ut ion. A I!AXIxKCRT DRKF. F,X R K XSI VF, I XTR OI) R('TI ON S. iTterp-,red this day at t-RAti a.m.) LONDON. Not. 22. Diiriiu r the examination m bankruptcy of the Duke of Leinster, ue admitted that- it was Ins Imirth baiiKruptey. -lie had been living on borrowed money since he -ueeeei.cd 1 ’ the title. pending the disposal ol Ids interests in the fuiiniy e-taie-. I.e paid three hundred sterling comno--sion for an introduction to a numeyiemler. who had lent him Cl.tiH ni exchange for promissory notes totalling t t . tl thousand. Me hml R iiul commission in three years lot ,ntl ” dilations 'to moiu-yl-nders. Dps personal expenses during the past three vends were £20.080 plus fibJol mteiests on loans WFT AGAIN. RONDOS. Nov. -22. 'fell additional Scottish areas. n.cluding Sanqmihar. "bicb wa;viol,siv dry and Langholm, whirl, p.cviouslv voted for limitation. have voted wet. MOTORS AX'D A KRORLA XI-K STORRKD. frf.xch and g krai an claim. LONDON*. Nov. 22. The "Aloriiing Rost’s” I’nris eorrespondent says that a lew " l 'C" jW 1 11 German „ews„ap-rs announced tlu.l the .Ministry of War m Berlin was experimenting with an invention f'»' bringing aeroplanes and motoi-tais a sudden stop, though a eousulerat. e ti inner awav. and now the Mimsl-l" ,‘,l' War has issued orders that the newspapers are not to rider to tinmatter again. The "L.Wr.e reveals that a French engineer has evolved a similar invention by means of a system of elect r„c 'ends, ivea! ng the American electro,-mor. lb, „ apparatus can stop mo or prone led vehicles ,1. the street. l ie engi - ' asked bis friends to stand at a dow and tell him what vehu-h t wished to have stopped. Do ttun touched a lever and the toxical, instantly stopped.