MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1924, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CADLE ASSOCIATION. BARXADO CHILDREN FAREWELLED. LONDON. Jan. 6. Prior to the Dr Uarnardo children embarking on the Euripides at Tilbury, they were entertained- at a farewell party at which tho Prince of Wales paid a surprise visit. On arrival at Plymouth the children telegraphed to. the Prince, expressing appreciation of Ids visit- and tendering unswerving loyalty. EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY. ROME, Jan. b. An ear! luptake ar. M.oudulio has caused an enormous fissure, belching flames and dense smoke, terrifying the inhabitants at. Mondolfo, Senignilia, and San Costanzo. These places are seriously damaged.

TELEVISION. SIR OLIVER LODGE'S VIEWS. LONDON, January 7. Sir Oliver I .edge in an article in the "(ib server’’ discusses prospective developments in wireless and says that pictures can be transmitted after a fashion by code signalling by the position of

dots on the process block or something of that kind; or they may actually produce pictures as a sort of mosaic of such dots. But this is not really vision at a. distance. It is only a, modified form of the printing telegraph. Bir Oliver Lodge says,;--‘‘l am not sanguino that lor a good many years, perhaps a century, that anything will be devised that can properly be called television.”

Referring to the transmission of the human voice across the Atlantic, Sir Oliver Lodge predicts that the human voice will soon reach from England to Australia and thus humanity will be welded together in a manner more intimate than ever before. The, beauty and tlie simplicity of the arrangements and tho comparative ease with which the- voice is transmitted, are very surprising. FOOTBALL SENSATION. LONDON, January .5. A sensation has been caused in the Association football, world by Preston. North End, giving fourteen days notice to terminate engagements with Gilchrist, their Scottish international halfback and Laird, inside-forward, for I,reaches of discipline with regard to training regulations. Preston paid a £-1,000 transfer fee for Gilchrist a year ago. FOOT AND MOUTII DISEASE. FARMERS ’ PI MICA UTIONS.

LONDON, January 7. South (Jhesire farmers. suspecting that the foot and mouth disease was being taken from infected to healthy areas by strangers are now sleeping with guns beside their beds. Compensation paid for slaughtering l as now reached two million sterling. MORE PAPER MARKS. LONDON. January 6. The "Morning” Post’s Berlin correspondent says that the little hope which uniaiued of restoring Germany’s demoinlised finances has vanished, in view c! tlic Finance' Minister', statement that situ e neither Hie Reichsban.k uey t.ho Hi.uiomnavk Bank will grant tic- Government credit to carry on. no other course remains but for the Go-

vernment to print its own jmjsor marks, ti this is dour ri big fall in paper marks may lie expected within a few days. GOVERNMENT CONTROLS FEDERATION. ROME. January G. !n consequence of the tumultuous meeting of the Seamen's Confederation which deposed and expelled Captain Ci illatti. leader of the Seamen's Federation, the Cloveminent, was obliged to intervene in the seamen's own interest and appointed three commissioners to take charge of the Federation's funds which total nineteen million lire, this being the largest Inhour reserve in Italy. GERMANY AND TURKEY. LONDON. January 6. The “Times” Constantinople correspondent says that Herr Froylng. the German Minister at Bucharest, is proceeding to Angora with the object of concluding a friendly agreement with Turkey, after which Germany intends to appoint a permanent representative in Turkey.

JAB EARTHQUAKE STATISTICS. TOKIO. January 6. The Home Office ’hots issued the official figures of the earthquake fire which show the total of deaths and missing at 192.000, houses destroyed 580,00 P and partially destroyed 120,000, THE JAP CABINET. A STORM OF PROTEST. TO Kit), .lan, 0. The announcement of the .'■elections or the Cabinet of all member.- of the Peer> has created a chorus of protest from the press, the “Niehi Nichi Stiim-bim” describing it as anachronism legally possible but practically impossible, thus setting had; the political dock thirty years. The '" J i j i ’ storm ily opposes any Cabinet not resting upon an elected house. Tilts ".lent u" expresses grave concern lest the old struggle against feudalism revives. TI ic selection of Huron Fniimura as Minister for Foreign Affairs is the chief surprise, lie had no diplomatic experience and is a member ot the Peers only through inheritance. He was educated in law at Cambridge an-1 lias been foreign representative for the. Mitsui for most of his tile. Owing to strong opposition to Huron. Fniimura, Premier Kiyoura becomes Foreign Minister as. veil as Premier. Other changes are: War, General Ugaki : Navy. Admiral Murakami: Communications, Baron I'ujitnnro : Railways, Komatsu. THE BOM R OUTRAGE. TOKIO. Jan. fi. Two accomplices of the man who threw t!io bomb outside the Imperial Palace have been idomilied as Koreans who arrived from Shanghai and those arc believed to be the vanguard. TOKIO. Jan. G. Tt is becoming more apparent that the bomb thrower was prompted by a desire to protest against the formation of a House of Lords, though the iKiliee -declare that a Korean veil ot mystery is shrouding tiie affair. JAP MINE DISASTER. TOKIO, Jan. G. ' Over a hundred miners were cm-

tombed and are believed to lie dead t s a result of a gas explosion at the Utashinai coal mine, near Sapporo, Hokkaido, It is known that nine are dead and twelve fatally injured. CRIME OK TWO MANIACS. CALLOUS DOINGS. LONDON. Jan. (i. A message trom Berlin records the callous murder of Comrade Berthold Talk by the youths William Deiters ami Paul Krause, aged respectively Hi and IS years. All were employed in a motor car works at Klieine, Westphalia. Falk disappeared on the 10th of December and bis father received a letter on the l'Jilt slating that lie would receive news of bis son il lie paid twenty-live thousand marks. I he lather did not respond and on the llltli he received a leather case in Which was a human foot labelled "Berthold Milk’s left foot.” There was also an intimation that if tho father did not pay the iifiv thousand marks he would receive his son’s left hand. The third letter instructed tielather to display a card in his window stating how much he.was prepared t. ) pay. The Lit her did so and noticed

Deiters and Krause reading tile card. He also overheard an incriminating conversation. Both were arrested ml confessed to the murder of Falk. Hoping to extract money from the father they invited Berthold to Krause’s house where he was overpowered by being struck repeatedly on the head, lie was then thrust ali v o or dead into a prepared grave which was filled in. Subsequently the body was exhumed and the youths hacked olf the left foot which was

sent to the lather. Differs and Krause belong to respectable families and show no signs of repentance. GERMAN FACTORY ROBBED. LONDON, Jan. 0. Fifty masked men, armed with revolvers and grenades, entered a factory, held up the staff and stole ten thousand in gold marks and escaped. DESECRATED BV* COMMUNISTS. PKTROGRAD. .Tan. fi The Trinity Chapel at Petrograd.

situated in tho grounds of the former palace of the Grand Duke Alexander, has been converted into a club foi Communist youths. The altar. formerly one of the most, beautiful in Russia, lets been transformed into a siago and stained glass windows containing the figures of Lenin. Trotsky and oilier Communist Defiers, have been installed. Zinovieff. President' of tho third international in opening the Club, said: Godless men who will carry the light of Communism to all corners of lie earth. This former temple of superstition will now aid Communism to educate its youths.”