BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 December 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

ICBTKALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION, ERE EDOM IN ITALY 7 (Received this day at id. -to a.in.) ROME. 1 )-v. 28. Professor Amendola. a Democratic Liberal Deputy and ex-Alini.ster /or the Colonies, was violent iy awaukul in a street or Rome by live unknown persons. He driving hi- motor car ill the time and the assailant.-, alter heating him unconscious i /aped. A few weeks ago the Professor accepted an invitation Lo a war memorial ceremony at .Salem and he reteived a warning that the Fascists intended to punish him tor his hostility Lo the Go-

vernment, and in order to prevent violence they kept lie pri-oncr in Jus liou-c till the ceremony was over. The professor indignantly prole.-ted to Premier Mussolini and the pres-. 1 1 is assumed that this led to the present assault, although sonic Fascists repudiate rcxponsiblity for it. An cn(juiry lias been promised.

DR WRIGHTS CERE. LONDON, lie. 28. Ihe ‘Daily .Mail” says that Airotli Wright’s new nieihoil of treatment for the most serious cases of septicaemia by means of immune t ra n-f ti-inn. is l;eI ing successfully carried out at St Mary’s Hospital. Dr Wright iotind during wiir-liiiie that a .simple transfusion of blood to a patient 1 rum a healthy person often was ol no avail. He, therefore. drew blood from a healthy individual, and inoculated it with vaccine, thereby raising; ii- power to kill microbes. Ih then injected it into the patient.. The new treatment is to inoculate a healthy pi r-.ou with I the vaccine, and then withdraw the blood for injection. Doctor Leonard Colehmok. of Ist Mary’s states that the results, which am at present being obtained represent only the beginning and it is probable that with tin; inclusion ol knowledge they will la- able lo effect .greater immunisation for the donors ol blood and achieve correspondingly belter curative results. PHILIPPINES’ TRIM' RLE. .MANILA, Dee. 2°. Constabulary killed .’!l .Mores during the battle of Maluiido where the Alums were committing depredations, especially destruying telephonic communication. None of the eonstahulary were injured. JAPANESE POLITICS. (Received this day at 10.10 a.in.) TDK Id. Dee. 20. I lirohi to ret iiriicd t lie f ahiuet. •(•- sigmitions cabled on Dec. 2t>, declining to accept them. A’nuui motto however, tendered the resignalions again indicating that, ('ahiuet. member; do not desire to remain in 'office. POLITK'A L.

LONDON, Dec. do M.r Garvin writing in Observer'' says whatever may he the difficulties cf the three party system, a solid can never he sought by kindling 1 tildies between the monarchy labour party, which included a la number of the King's subjects t Liberalism. The constitution will i itself when another dissolution iii-i The Liberal Party will he certain then split again and for good. 'will join Labour and part Cnior In effect, the two narty system will uo restored and the sooner the hef.tei. WHEAT PRICES. LONDON. Dec. 20. Owing to lighter world'', shipment - prices are steadily held. Parcels are firm and occasionally denier. R CSS lAN TIMBER. I (Received this day at Id.2d a.in.) | LONDON. Dee. 20. j Three steamers are unloading the first tat ft of fifty thousand tons of Russian timber purchased by three Grimsby linns, the first arrival since KILL

THE AT, RIA I. ('OAIPIXK. ADR K K MEXT \Y IT! ID (i VF.I! XAI TXT. [Rkctkiis Tklkoua.ms. ’ (Received this day at 11.15 a.m.) LONDON', December 30. An agreement, between the Governreent and, the Imperial Air Tran’spur! Company Limited, for Ike p.ur|use of operating an aerial tra Hanoi t .service to Europe is now issued. The eoiupanv comprises the Handley Page, lustoue. Diamler, and the British .Marine Air .Navigation Com panics, with a capital of a million sterling. The Company w ; 11 lie entirely British. The Dm. eminent is entitled in nominate two ditec-

to;-s. The agreement will operate next A] ill and until the Company has repaid tbi suh.-idies received under the agreement it shall maintain efficient air services from London to Paris. Bni-sCs. Amsterdam, Southampton, Channel isles and ether approved places. A minimum of a hundred thousand miles must he completed, annually in the next four years, and a million miles in the siiiisci|U"iit year. The Doverumenl •subsidy for the lirs| four years will be £137.000 and each year thereafter it will be graduallv reduced to ihirtytwo thousand in the tenth year, which is neccssa.iy for Hie const met inn of the Hero serviic. The engines and accessories will l o British. '! he only piilots u ill he those enrol led in the Air Force Reserve or the Auxiliary Air Fore" v.ill he employed. The technical administrative personnel will he Piitish and all aerodromes, and aircraft ba-es of the company nil] he at the disposal if rue Government in a national emergency. SFDAII GROWING. 'Received this day at. 13 a.m 1 LONDON. December 29. The intention to embark on an important scheme of sugar production in England was announced at a meeting of agriculturalists at Nottingham. The Chairman staled four hrg shipowners laid agreed to find capital ter the enmpajiy. which is erecting a taetorv at Culwick. with a view to cultivating five then-aud acres in 1021. and one hundred thousand in 1925. POWER PLANTS. LONDON. December 20. - A new Anglo-American Eugineeiing Coy. has been formed at Barrow to s| ecialise in designing, building and equipping complete power plants. A capital of half a million sterling is to he provided equally by A inkers and the International Engineering Corporation of New York. j BRITISH POLITICS. LONDON, Dec. 30. The ‘'Sunday Times’’ says Government must face the new House not as a culprit awaiting sentence, hut as th" strongest political organisation, hut Parliament and the country must obviously delete protection, and propound a policy of extended social and industrial insurance and rigid economy. They must challenge Parliament, particularly the Liberals, to find in th..t platform any excuse for turning it out. Co-operation between the parties there has got to be. else the representative system collapses and the State -will he hurled into chno-