MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1923, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

lUHTKALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION, JAPAN'S PRINCE. TDK ID. Dee. 27. There has been an iinsm < esstul attempt to assassinate Prince Hiroliito. heir to the throne. 'I lie pnlire hav. started a round-up of unarehisls. Rumours (lew fast that Hie attack was ■at anarchist, pint to avenge lin* recent killing of the Socialist leader Ouigi, other Socialist-, and the theft, oi his ashes during memorial services. Meantime the entire Cabinet lias resigned, thus assuming the nominal responsibility, and expies-iie; liuiuiiiution over the nt tempt on the Rrinrc's |jtc. Tin 1 Ministen have mu received any reply from Prince Hiroliiii, who is expected to refuse the resignations. Ey'e-wi tne.ssei I■ -t ip* d -eonsi metcd the aitenipt to shoot tier I'rince. Ii appeal’s the assailants approaelied within a lew feet ol Prince Hireliito’s motor and lired. but tin- Prime had noticed lit/ jirowler. and leapt forward just as the bullet crashed into tin* window, thereby saving his own life. The assailant, however, continued firing and pursuing the motor, and shouted “Rauzai” until overpowered by the police. The alternoon newspapers contained no actual accounts of the attack. Ihe news presumably has been suppressed. OVER I)HE DEBT. TEGUCIGALPA. Dee. 27. The Honduras Government signed an agreement lor tin* payment of £•>,- ,mo7R, borrowed from Britain during the period from 1867 to 1870 to build a Tratis-Oeeanie railway which project failed. No interest has been pain since 1872. The arrears of interest amounted to £223.3211,112. Ihe Honduras Republic will pay the bondholders twenty pel* c,*ul. el ike tine value of the bond.-. NO INTENTION OK DYING. [Recti'. ns Tki.i.i.iiams.] (Received this dav at 0.20 a.iu.) LONDON, Bee. 2-. The “Times" Tangier correspondent s a-,*s that Raisuii, who was recently reported dead, has apparently no intention of lining, lie has just purchased a palatial residence two miles from Tangier. after five years. SOLDI Eli’S RET CRN. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). tßeceived this dav at Skin a.ui.) LONDON. Bee. 28. The "Daily Mail” says the* "Matin's Brussels i oiTCspondeuL states that two Belgian soldiers. Desire Rouelle and Joseph Yanderwa/.en, who were piioiters in Germany, have just returned home. Rouelle states that he was captured ill December IDI I and was subsequently sentenced to . lour years in a fortress for attempting to escape. ||e was eventually •-;•-■* work in foe (adds. He endeavoured to rcLinn to Belgium after the armistice hut the German authorities relu.-ed to stippn him with ideiit ilieaLion papers, so therefore, he could not cross the frontier. Eventually. lie entered the French neeupied territory and convinced the French of his Belgian nationality and rejoined his mother who had not heard of him for live years. Rouelle declares that there are some Belgian war prisoners still in tho German gaols.