BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

[R E (.* I E Its Tr.t.EC It A .MS. J BAND I CR NAVAL BASE. SING AFORE, December 17. The legislature has voted a further seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars towards tin 1 purchase of land for the naval base. OCX TCRRETS. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) LONDON. Dec. 17 British sailors are surprised at the Fnited Stales intention to appropriate 0? million dollars for the purpose ol elevating gun turrets giving the guns an increased rung". .V similar proposal was previously withdrawn, when il was proved in 11,22 that Britain was not raising her turrets as it was believed in America she was, while a recent statement that elevation does not contravene the spirit or letter of the Washington Treaty conflicts with Mr Harding’s views. Legal experts differ regarding the interpretation of certain clauses of the treatv.

M. CLEM KXCEA F I.X.JCKED. (Received this day at. !h 15 a m.) FA IMB. Dee. 10. M. (lemeneian's iar collided with another ear, all tic windows of the exI’lvmiei's motor being smashed. Clemeiiceau was injured by tin- Hying glass and was sent to Im-pital with Wounds on the tip of his iin-e and torehead. which hud to lie stitcher!. His condition is not serious

A .SCHOOL TEACHER'S MAMA. (Received tin's day at ft. 25 a.m.) VIENNA. Dee. 17. Intense interest is shown in the trial ol Milo a Virknbruiikoviee, a beautiful ex-school teacher aged 22. who was sentenced to three and a-hall years for attempting to murder a rich bookseller’s wife and her two sons. Milica, was the bookseller's mistress and desired to marry him. She mixed white-lead in the household's Hour and sugar, resulting in all being taken ill. Five years ago Milica v,as .sentenced to two years imprUoiiineiit for attempting to murder, with arsenic and phosphorus, the wile ol a seliool inspector whom she desired to marry.