MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1923, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. WOMAN EMPLOYEE AWARDED damages. LONDON, December 5. The Chief Justice and a special juryvj heard Mrs Abbott’s claim for damages against GairoukK, drapers, of Edgov,an- Road, for false imprisonment and for trespass. The plaintiff complained that while she was an employee of Garroulds, she was called into the office and questioned by detectives, with reference to trß: theft of two rolls of silk. Although she told all that she knew the detectives did not believe her and they made her accompany them to her flat, which the detectives ransackeijHC The defence was that the firm was not responsible for the manner in which the police carried out their duties. Detective Harney declared that tho plaintiff had invited the detectives to search her flat if they thought the~-' stolen property was there. The Chief Justice, in summing up, said that if the plaintiff’s story were true, she had been treated with a cynical disregard for ht«r dufjt. Her rights had been invaded, and her dignity grossly alf runted. It was a ease i;i which the jury, if it chose, could award substantial damages to make it plain that the defendants had been guilty of conduct which no British jury would tolerate. The jury awarded the plaintiff £SOO sterling. Judgment was entered accordingly A stay of execution was refused. THE LUXOR TOMB. LUXOR, Dec. fi The demolition of the wall between tlie ante-chamber and the niortuniv chapel in Tutankhamen’s tomb has been completed. Mr Carter is ready to dismantle the outer shrine in the chapel, hut first must discover how the shrine is constructed, lest a premature effort to dismantle causes the shrine to fall to pieces. AEROPLANE EXPERIMENT. LONDON. Dee. fi. The Central News Agency’s Paris correspondent says : The experiment of supplying petrol from one aeroplane to another during flight has sueossfully been conducted at Lobourget, where the receiving machine flew to a height of 10,000 feet, while the supplying machine was about !.;() feel higher, and then dropped a pipe line, and U remained five minutes in the same position, filling the other’s tank. DAUDET MYSTERY. LONDON, Dee. 6. The Morning Post’s Paris correspon- . dent says:—M. Alphonse Daudet and his friends persist, in the allegation that- Daudei’s son Philippe was done to death by his anarchist enemies. It is suggested that the only alternative to the hypnotic suicide theory is that Phillippe was shot by an assassin through the cab window.

It is believed that yesterday’s mysterious witness was called in order to testify to one or other of these theories. When he entered and left tho Law Court’s building was surrounded by a band of young Royalists, whoscreened his identity, and prevented photographs being taken. The pnlico yesterday, in examining the cab, discovered lying in a crack between this floor hoards an empty cartridge case eorresp Hiding in calibre, to those used iu tile revolver found near Phillippe’S 1 ® hotlv.

The story is now told of a stranger’s arrival at the garage and his inspection of the cab. It is suggested that lie was tin anarchist, and placed the cartridge ease in the cab. The mvsterv continues to absorb tho L

Pairs public. The Daily Express says that a number of missing documents throwing light cm the case have been found sewn iu the dress of the sweetheart of Comrade Coloter ol the Anarchist paper “Liberiaire’s staff. She, with the documents, dashed tn Marseilles, hut returned to Paris, where police awaited her, and took the papers. These included the manuscript of Phillippe's prose poems, on the first folio of one of which was written: “Goodbye, to mummy! None will discover the feeling that directs me!”

SUICIDE THE DOCTORS’ VERDICT PARIS, As a result of a pOst-mortcm examination of Pliillippe Dnudot’s remains, the doctors are unanimously of the opinion that it was a case oi "si4.v cide. The police investigations made up to the present have revealed no new facts, hut a mystery attaches to a witness who gave evidence at the Magistrate's inquiry, held in camera. Considerable pains were taken by the police to preserve his anonymity on the grounds that, his life was otherwise endangered.

. PREFERS TORY VICTORY'. PARIS, Dee. 0. French interest in tbe elections lias been intensified by Mr Baldwin’s declaration that the Conservative Parly remains faithful to the principle oT frienlsliip with France. "Ea Liberie’ says : If Mr Llovd George is returned to .power, tlio existing muddle in Europe will become worse. Therefore to-morrow’s vote is important. GREAT POWERS BLAMED. BUN YAT SEN INTERVIEWED.^ (Received this dav at 9.1 o a m.) PEKIN, Dec. G. It is understood that foreign admirals are prepared to act vigorously it |)r Sun A'at Sen interferes with the customs, the maintenance whereof is vital to foreign commerce and the payment of foreign debts. The diplomats have already warned Dr Sun A'at Sen that his claims are untenable. Tile "Tinies" Hong Kong correspondent interviewed Dr SunAat Sen who hinted at an active alliance with Russia and expressed his readiness to throw down the gauntlet to foreign powers, lb* declared that the war situation was excellent hut he needed the Canton Government and as he would not he able to shoulder the whole burden of the fight for a. good Government lie decided to the Canton customs revenue. Tf tin* officials refused to surrender ho would appoint others as keen. Asked when he would act thus. Sum A'at Sen replied that probably ho would do so in a fetv days. When asked what about the nine British, French. American and Japanese gun boats now at Canton, ho replied that he did not hope to he able to overcome such an array of foreign might, but it would he .ajjf honour to he defeated by the combined powers. He would then play his second card, hinting at Russian intervention. Dr Sun A'at Sen was determined on any measure to gain his objective, namely, a share of the Chinese revenue surplus. He argued that tho powers were responsible for the continuance of China’s strife by -morally and fin a tie Lilly supporting tho Pelting OoVffi’HKWffit.