BRITISH 8 FOREIGN- ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1924, Page 2

BRITISH 8 FOREIGN- ITEMS.

lUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATIONT UNEMPLOYMENT SPREADING. LONDON, Jan. 27. The Trades' Union Council has forwarded to Air Shaw a proposal that the managers should guarantee the relaxation of the hardships the men suffer under the reductions, conditional upon Air Bromley’s union agreeing to a fresh ballot. It is expected the suggestion will afford the Government with an opportunity of making peace.

The unemployment duo to the railway strike is spreading, 160,000 being idle in South Wales. It is estimated the strike is costing tlie country a million daily.

THE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIP (Received this dnv at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 28. At Chamonix tho 1500 metres speed skating Olympiad contest resulted:— Thurnberg (Finland) Ist, time 1.20 4-5; Larsen (Norway) 2nd. 1.22. Tho 10,000 metres resulted: Skntnabb (Finland) Ist., ISmin. 4-osee: Turnberg (Finland) 2nd.. 18.7 4-5. Four Norwegians followed. The general classification in the four speed skating events , places (Thurn-'"*

berg (Finland) Ist., Larsen (Norway) 2nd., Skntnabb 3rd, The classification by nations gives Finland 38V points, Norway 39, and United States 11.

THE DIXMEDE DISASTER. (Received this day at 8 a.m.3 PARTS, Jan. 28. The report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Dixmude disaster does does not arrive at a definite conclusion, hut it is inclined to believe that the craft was struck by lightning and fell into the sea from a height of approximately six thousand feet. H FSB AND SNOOTS WIFE. A LONDON, January 28. The “Daily Express’s” Paris correspondent reports a sensation ill a City Court. A policeman, who was sued for divorce, shot liis wife dead before the eyes of the Judge. After tho wife had described her sufferings, the husband • admitted his faults. He added.—‘T am changed. I promise to treat her kindly I did not know before what it was to be lonely.” The Judge asked—“ Will you give him a chance madam?” “No,” replied the woman. “I cannot live with him again.” She turned away. The husband then put his hand hi- pocket, and drew a revolver. There "as: a flash and the wife fell with a wound in her throat. Before he could he overpowered, the husband fired two bullets into his own head, and fell across his wife’s body. She is dead. The husband is expected to recover. wages rise or strike. LONDON, Jan. 27. The British Transport Workers’ Federation Executive has been instructed to ask for further negotiations upon their application for two shillings more wages per day. If it is not conceded, a national strike will he called. GREEK ROYALISTS. LONDON, Jan. 28. The “Daily Express’s”. Athens correspondent says:—The death sentences on Generals Gargalolis and Leonardopielos have been commuted to five years imprisonment. Eighty-six officers have been pardoned.

The Government is further considering the raising of the ban on all the Royalist newspapers, which have been suppressed since the rising.