MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1924, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

U’STIIALIAN AND NCABLE ASSOCTA7ION. Et'XOR TOMBLONDON. .lannary 11. The special eorres-pmident of tin “Daily News" says that the latest investigation of Tutankhamen's Tomb .shows n chat pc of jerry building, and th-ti skimping mi the pa it of the undertakers was not an unknown art. even ill the time of the Pharaohs. While every precaution was taken tit il:,. workshops by marking the sections to carry out the architects' design, and the artists and craftsmen did their work skilfully, with the utmost care. •builders of the tomb were guilty 0 r negligence. Some sections occupy a wrong position. No attempt was made to remedy the errors. They simply wren.-bed them into position. This forcible jumhing of the section increased the dismantling. There is another error in the middle section of the roof. Whereas the front and rear sections ;ri . decorated with gilt vultures facing the door, in which the middle section faces rearward. The discovery of joiners’ debris between the sides the shrine indicates haste or lack of supervision, justifying the assumption, that .-.iter the sarcophagus was closed and the more important objects were placed ; n position, according to ritual and

ivadition, the Court officials and priests left the erection of the shrines and the disposal of the funerary furniture to the iindeitakers' men. and they skimpcq the work. EXCHANGE SLUMP. NEW YORK, Jan. 15. Sterling closed at- four and tirotenths cents. Observers are greatly exercised over the technical collapse of the French exchange. The Wall Street- Journals' expert declares that France’s official announcement blaming Germany for the decline of the franc fails to account for the real cause, namely, the French Government did not attempt to curb unproductive expenditures, which cause huge Budget deficits. The writer declares that American bankers generally deplore France’s apparent tendency to employ palliative, instead of fundamental methods, to restore the stability of the franc, and hopes the preesnt dopression will impress oil Paris the importance of adopting a sounder policy.

JAPANESE UNREST. TDK 10. Jan. M. in view of recent events, the police arc conducting a campaign to ensure peace for January gfith. the day of the Imperial wedding. All known radicals in Japan, particularly Koreans, are being rounded up and interned. The leaders of workers’ groups are placed under strict surveillance. It is reported, that if an adverse vote is recorded against the Kiyoura Government when it meets Parliament on. January 20th, it will ask for a dissolution, and will appeal to the country. RUSSIAN CRITICISM. PETROGR AD, Jan. 14 The Soviet newspaper “Pravda” is moved to hitter contempt over the opening of the House of Commons session. particularly the episodes in which Mr Ramsay MacDonald shook hands with Mr Llovd George and Mr Baldwin, also accompanying the latter to the House of Lords. The “Pravda” declares that in Russia, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, and other countries, there is civil war between the workers and their oppressors, but 7iot so in good old England, where, despite the sufferings of the workers, they tolerate- leaders who embrace the world’s mo.d cunning bourgeoisie. PARIS EPIDEMIC. PARIS, Jan. 14. Baris is suffering from a severe epidemic of influenza. Three hundred cases have been sent to hospitals. Eight- deaths have occurred. Women have been particularly affected, which the doctors attribute to the scanty aLtirc of the present fashions.