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Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1924, Page 2

i;';V“ to t'ue s summoned to - British revenue deficit. LONDON. Jan. 1. The “Daily .Mail” states that the British revenue, for nine months is £533,000,000 si ml the expenditure is £593.000,090 leaving a deficit of £OO,ono.ooo. TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT. BOMB, December 31. The people of Tagliacozzo meted out terrible revenge to a man guilty of sacrilege. Tho man entered a church at night and stripped a statue of the Madonna J of jewels. He was arrested, and the yj infuriated populace attacked the prison, seized the man, hanged him to a lamp post, then soaked him with petrol and burned him alive. DESERT CAMPAIGN*. LONDON. December 31. The Rome correspondent ht the "Daily Mail” says that Italy won a ch sert war in the course of a fortnight. quelling the rebellion of the Mali.dins Arabs in Italian Libya. A force of 70 ( H) white and native troops advanced in five columns on December 15 concentrating on Boiti-ulid, the rebel stronghold. They attacked under cover of a sandstorm inflicting severe losses. The Italians released a number of slaves, including a Britisher named--, , Trotter. . 1 j LONDON'S l >OOll.. fit: . . vy.-Vt. -’>*£:; *L; LONDON,--December 31...: *“ The King and Qtieoji .sent a inejsshge- >•’*' In the poor c hildren’s"’dinnef'’at the Guihlhall, "isliitig them a bapp... New Year. LONDON. December 31. Twelve hundred poor Loudon oltil- >- dn'ii were eiitortained at the (ItfihTiiaTj io dinner cut of funds xriWiihcd by N«» Zealand children. '1 he youngsters wore so boisterously meny that, they refused to listen to any .speeches, even to Sir James Allen's megaphone attempt. . BOMB OUTRAGE. I IH DA BEST, December 31. I A well-known discus thrower •, con- I eerned with a secret society, Awakening Magyars, flung a bomb a .crowded hall during Jewish I In: homh exploded and killed jic’sous and wouncled thirty. Tin* dancers became paniie-strii^B and ch lichen, covered blood, rushed to the exits, but turned hack by the ron.spirnf^^^^^H Twenty-five m ar danger. flillli

BEI.GRA.DK. Dec. A sitmcttoji Tint wecit Slavin'and Bulgaria,. liuUmll ■speech in thiy Sobranji b; ■Bulgarian, TVemiei"syr.fw, * >the tfettjStiW^i*'&TJu! ga ri a n 3 inSliH anil to liulgari-i’s desire **r suspeitcl voluntary enlistments for tlit army. He hoped the Allied Powers would authorise the Government ‘to temporarily recruit the Army on eon-. script basis. This is Belgrade as a demand to‘T«ep a standing army, and as ei)i!ivalent to a challenge to the .lugo-Slavs. Tlie Cabinet discussed the speech., after which M. Rakitch (Serbian Minister) was technically instructed to return to Belgrade.* to confer with tlie Government.

Official citifies are of opinion that " At. Zankoff’s utterance marks a do- " finite change in Bulgarian policy iuT favour of tlie restoration of 1 war conditions‘of the The newspapiTjjJ!' **' i-Aj ■ l / r S V’>J declare it . im nt 1 :: k- - 1A of 10.: 111!! '"eoivod ant ; confer, uilli Wiitic an diic- 11. pt, fetatelllen • on the si 1 Vowing -c!s on: circles: The Holy union of C’liri.stian to combat more i ff;. ncii^^HHSHß9H| a fheisi^^^^^^^l same time, it cannot he^H"'q-'-'V u that the Homan Church is St Defer, and tin* ("niversa and that its right to consider the Caput Alumli is a question noW ’simply of honour, but of juridical principle. Consequently the Homan Church is unwilling, even to he eonsidered as first among equals. [f the results of the Mali lies Conference have not keen considerable, there are still ’ hopes for the future, owing to the goodwill re via led on both sides. - FIHIIT FOII FUNDS, i" BOXDONufJap,;- 1.-. ■ Air .John Finnert.v, representing the' !i American Council of tlie Irish llepub- , If -, has arrived in Dublip to direct the A light for half a million sterling atm party funds, subscribed in America, which the Free State, and lera are laying claim. The AmericaiTl Consul at Dublin lias been eotnmis- I sinned to examine Messrs De Valera, .1 Austin Stack, and Barton. The last- J named has been released, but other two are still interned... FAITH HKAUXG. I.OX DOF, Tli- report of a strong clergymen and laymen. u inent physicians, appointed by Archbishop of Canterbury after f.ambeth Conference of 1021). to -sulci- the ebailenge of Christian ka* bcvmjpi ■ .}tw-*hr of spirftual I fica)j»!«^-4hc' r repoH;TH!?iS,; that no sick I person must lopk to.blergy TeTpi'rforiii a I a surgeon’s duty. I