BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

JUBTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. THE COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS. PARIS, Dw:. 215. The Reparations Commission has convened the first committee of experts for the 14th. of .January ami the second for the 'twenty-fourth. I hey will immediately proceed with a serious examination of Germany’s econo—H.mie position. JAPANESE UNIVERSITY DESTROYED. * [Reuters Telegrams.] (Received this day at. thin a.mA 1 TOKIO, Dec. 2,. \ lire at the Imperial University of Tukuoha. destroyed the entire huddmft and the on-inocrin- collee;e Ihe damayo is estimated at live nullum ye .. -W" JAPANESE PRINCE SHOT AT. (Rocei red this day at 0.25 n • 111 *'*_ '1 OK 10, Deeemher - _o. Prince Repent Himhito narrowly escaped death Pom an assailant s Pullet . while motor inn; to the Diet Imildmt: o address Parliament. Prince H.rol.i to was unhurt, hut Viscount Inyo, who ,v U a a,s.-om pa nyine lnm. wrs injured , 1V the uluss from a shattered window. ' The police arrested Dissuko Namha. a,,,: twenty-four, with three accom-j • piices. He is a son of a.Senator and ■> hclieved to he a dangerous radical D - rim' his university days he h'd ■> S<enlist, -roup and later worked in Lutorics in the South of Japan where u organised extremist 1-ahour movements. CATHOLIC DIGNITARY'S VI PAY. LONDON, Dee. 27. _ \ Catholic dignitary, interviewed in London, said that the Vatican sden watches and waits, hut thee m lioiiht what it will say at the end ol the negotiation* as the reunion <>* h churches is too peat and too sacred n X* S e to tic brought about hy more no, - 'Topn'scutative table talk, however well meant and amiable.

PARIS. Dec. 27 Owing to opposition hy the Ihiu.v . f -s. England the authorities. Norman. ■<>- vernor of the Hank, will not serve on the British committee ol experts . enquire into Germany’s tmances. - ' *Sol,ert Kinderslcy is replan,,- him. A TERRIFIC HAJESTORNI. CAPETOWN, Dee. 27. ' v m , s Dav in Pretoria was • sign >l- - Lv an unpreeedented liniistoini. The hailstones were jagged lumps of ice as large as teacups and wcipliinL OV er 10 ounces, caused damage o pro '7ty which is estimated at one hundred thousand sterling Ihe , i .i „ n ..erial bombardment. I here row »».iiio.,« » r zLrzSJZ L - .1houses.