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Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1923, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. ANARCHIST PLOT. ATHENS, December 2. The city is excited over the Government’s admission that they are in possession of iufoimation that- a gang of anaichists is en route to Greece to attempt to assassinate the King. Tho anarchists are members of foreign organisations, aiming at an internal upheaval in Greece. Extraordinary precautions are being taken to protect the King, who sekhms ventures from the palace. Its mas.'Spt! gates which are always closed, nro jealously guarded by sentries. MR AIASSEY FETED. LONDON. December 3. Mr Massey had a rousing reception at his native town,, Limavady, which was en fete for the notable occasion. The sconces of enthusiasm were reheated at a tea party reception, at which there was a large gathering of citizens. Air Massey spent Sunday in the midsr of scenes of his boyhood. He attended the Presbyterian Church, and subsequently he addressed a iorce of Ulster special constables, who held a special church parade, congratulating them on the notable part they had played in restoring peace in Ulster.

LUXOR- TOAIBSLOXDON. December 2. The “Morning Post's” correspondent at Luxor states: Natives on I’riduy carried a second life-size statue, of Tutankhamen from the tomb. Air Carter superintended every stage of the operations. as it would have been easy to el uin hie the woodwork to dust. AltCarter now has the ante-chamber cleared. ready for the final preparations for dismantling the outer shrine. He is confident all the shrine’s mummy cases will ),e cleared front the mortuary chapel in six weeks. 'I ho Egyptian press still bitterly resents the attitude of the Egyptian Government regarding the distribution cf news from the limb. A HUGE FLOOD. ENORMOUS DAMAGE. ROME, December 2. Tlneo Communes in the Bergamo province have been practically deistroyt'l by floods, following on the bursting oi a dam. The damage is estimated at seieral hundred million lire.

Five power stations have l>eoj|,„-les-troved, rt.d a vast area of rich agricultural land has been destroyed. ■phe disaster is due to abnormal rains. The River Dezzo ovei flowed, and simultaneously the dam husrt. The flood was thirty feet in depth.

Rescue operations are most difficult owing to the interruption of all means of communication.