BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

LATEST CABLE NEWS

Tllli PHILIPPINE FANATICS

(“Sydney Sun” Cables)

MANILA, Jan. 21

Two Alorns returning to Tabulnudang fioin Celebes aboard a Dutch vessel. after recovering from wounds received in an encounter with vdlagers, ran amok. They killed nine Dutch seamen and wounded nineteen. They then jumped overboard, but were fatally -hut from the deck.

[Rkvilhs T Unfit.RAMS.] MANILLA, Jail. 21. Aided by maehine guns and a barrage from the Ameriran gunboat 1 aSaeraiiien to,’ ‘ constabulary were landed at Lucas Island. They charged the trenches held by Colormn tribesmen who were completely routed. One member of the constabulary was killed. The tribesmen's loss is unknown. but two dead and two wounded Were (discovered. The constabulary burned the Coionim township. I,ENIN'S DEATH. LONDON. Jan. 21. Tile Council of tin- i ruder 1 nioii Congress has telegraphed us eomlolences to the Russian Sovic' ( ommi.«.-ar= upon Af. Lenin's death. LONDON, dan. 20. The “Daily Express’s”. .Moscow correspondent says:—“l vault at four o'clock in the morning to -ee the body of Af. Lenin. The Red soldiers kept silent discipline, whispering directions to the people to keep moving, and give others a chance. Kaclory workers and peasant women, who hud been waiting. shivering all night, walked past in lines of threes, with arms linked, viewing the cairn lace of the dead leader in his glass-covered coffin. At the corners of the coffin were four columns draped in ever-green and red. giving the illusion that Lenin was sleeping on a tour-post bed. A guard of soldiers and civilian watchers stood as rigid as stone. Ihe croud thinned tit live o’clock, hut swelled later until in the afternoon there was a black mass of humanity waiting in the snow.

Or Semashko, who attended Hapest mortem states that Lenin’s brain was of about normal weight, hut the convolutions showed remarkable intel-

ligence. The Petrogrud Soviet have decided to rename the city Leningrad:

ITALIAN ELECTION*. ROAIE. Jan. 21L The Italian Parliament has dissolved. The general elections will probably he held on the (ith. April. A VISITOR’S IMPRESSIONS. (Received this dav tit 9.25 n.m.) LONDON. Jan- 2-‘>. Colonel Stanley, interviewed on his return from Australia and New Zealand. which he visited in the interests of the Church Army Overseas Sett lenient Scheme, said as the tasiill nl hitour he anticipated to lie able to send out about ten thousand emigrants in the next: twelve months. Stanley referred to the wonderful advantages awaiting the emigrant. Nobody need l,c afraid of going to Australia or to New Zealand provided they could pass the necessary medical and eharaetei tests. There was one unfortunate malady in relation to emigration lor which no remedy could he found, naliielv hutm-sirkness. I 1 or the fii.'t lime tlv churches had been called on to assist in the work. Alm-hinery now existed whereby a new, Ollier would he , .• .. ~ (i i, work. ’in<l certain • ‘>l <• " f 1 n,IK - • friends who would -.are {or him the future. It would >’.<■ Ucees-nrY dsn that there should ''c tint’ Inta-ty 11 motion in the letted T-in.ip-'.m. Ai i'a.igements are 1t:...;, -'-‘-ago -c- ~°“ nieetings throughout ik~ Ntggdott:. at which'the scheme - W ho flamed. Stanley was particularly impressed by the solicitous care of the Government authorities of Australia and New Zealand for the newcomer's welt a re.

MEETING OF CREDITORS. 'Received this day at 9.-1 o a.m.} LONDON. Jau. 2n. At: the meeting of Howard Doubler, cabled on the IMh. the statement of affair, showed Moulder m ipoQ W as worth four hundred thmisaiul. He resooiuled to the call lor help to forward patriotic work and reconstruction necessitated by the war. imd as;i result ho now owed about -I •).>- - which was unsecured. He cstmia ml his assets at about an equal amount. A trustee was appointed.

dfv\station revelations. PARTS, Jan. Kurt her revelations in connection with the devastation scandals snow t i, ;U a contractor named Frot churned compensation in connection with Me canal Du Nord in the Lens area wliu L was constructing in 1911 although he had received four-fifths of the value of materials used on the canal the war. Frot has since been allowed an indemnity for the loss o materials which were times their pre-wm got twenty-eight million franc* "»’ludi„,r 915,000 francs for the cost drawing up a stale.ncnt nf claim. ' this wa, done in is without export . Frot rebought the canal material . m exception tally good terms and he uM ,hl it for reconstruction purpoo,*T,.. Ministry of Works has entered action again,t Trot. RELATIONS WlTff" FOREIGNERS. TOIx 10, Jail. 23 M Mntnui. addressing the Imperial Piet at the opening session, declared the wav the Japanese were being treated on the Pacific Const ul the United states was regrettnbe fh s prohlcm was exceedingly complicated, and delicate, and the Government was paving special attention lo >t. • hex were putting forth their best elloit, in nr< lcr that the question might he treated in tbc spirit of mutual respect bv both sides. Referring to China, he said out Mite interference there should he Mud.ouslv avoided. Japan would take all necessary steps there to protect her interests. The Government has announced a policy of buying at equitable prices all foreign perpetual leaseholds, m Japan, especially in Yokohama, where torch-,, holdings predominate. America i the first to surrender ixvo ; sites formerly used as naval hospitals ' and an army quartermaster s coal depot- debt. _______