BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

[l{ EUT BUS T KI, KCi It AMS.") DRAMATIC IH'KSIUT. FOX DON, I'VF. i). . The ‘'Daily Rome currespondent reports that a bunker > ioiie. dniinatie pursuit oi aii rJlej'eii former lias heen revealed by Die ai l' - l of a couple in .Messina. Herr .Seitz .director ol ihe Rei’.-aTie jjank at llanil»su*;r, Feeatne suspieimis of a trusted iiiijiloyee, alter his eashine live cheque.-, lor Od!) p»!d marks hy sinning the banker's signature Seitz on learning; that the fugitive had jro,K. to Cologne in oilier »o f.leh lii< yoiiLf. wife hired an aeroplane, and !ic\v thitliar The f.ouple, lnealit in»e had f. »ne ;o M unich. The banker hired the Fiie-i inoFu ear, and ascertained on arrival that the* eoi.pU* had jnsi lelt Mu'iirh by express train for Italy. Herr Seitz secured legal documents uul the .re rviees of a special j olieeinan. Then lie caught the Rome express. The couple continued llu'M* journey to Sicily, II fuel which was reveuled by the 'nun having changed money in a Naples bank. Herr Seitz continu' d his j»ur-u:t t< Messina, where he inquired at 'lie intels. and found the couple v>r- .eating for Syracuse and Malta. 1 lie Lag - er rustled to tin' railway -luieu,. and procured the arrest ol the iugi ; .“et. j just as they wire about to take Detrain. RESIGNATION HONORS. (“Sydney Sun" Cable-). I Received this day ai 0• L" a.m.) LONDON. Ki-biiiaiy 10. The folio" iug are (he Bahia in - e' niuetil’s resignation honour.-: Barony . S,i .1 tillm Butler: Privy Councillors g: : . .1. T. i leg. (laldilie;. Wilfied A-h----p.y, w'alter (luinne-.s. Captain Algernon Fitzruy, Herbert N’eihl ; Baronets. \V. K. Barber. Montague Barlow. Harry I’arnstoii. Otto Beil. (leneiat Page t .eft. Herbert. Humbling. S. Bui- ,| M, Mi-Lend. .1. 1 I Mar d. ii, (’cmU'.aiHk’i ol Si. Michael St t't'.-ige Larry B'ituim (for servi'-c.- in '• liei lion vah the Imperial I’m . r . e.M----g I es -; I. CEE MAN SEAM E' I'UbUTI'.IUI TEI.fGJtAit! ..1 (Received this day m !Lbi a m. LONDON, February 10. Six hundred Gc-nrin rear.icn who liate been on strike hit London ten Hamburg. They "ere repatriated by the Seamen’s Knion. an official of which explained they were being repatriated in flic interests of the sloping <vnimiinity and the World generally: also aa protest against the action ol certain shipowners chartering German bottoms cm account of cheapness rather than use their own vessels. ( oii-eqiieiitlv hundreds of British seamen were unable to obtain work. Captain Tup] or sail I if any men were penalised by the German shipowners, the strike would he resumed, and all the Gorman shipI ing in British port- would he enmpletelv boycotted.

ECOXOM IKS. ; LONDON. February 10. The ‘‘Observer’s” Paris correspondent states drastic economies are the older of the day in (loveniinenL Department:-. Officials of the Ministry for Colonies must travel second class in future and henceforth public servants will he allowed thirty-two pens and three pencils per annum. A REPORTED OFFER. (Received this day at 10.-lo a.in.) LONDON, February 10. Fuller the heading •‘Sensational Report”, the Exchange Telegraph Agencv s l’aiis correspondent .-ays. according to the newspaper “Excelsior”, the Fnitcd States (iovenimeiit is willing to accept in payment m the Creneldebt, the cession to 1 nited States in ff French Mauds in West Indies. 'Hr- "Excelsior" states negotiation.have liccn in progress tor some tunc. lr is reported Fnitcd States would also pa\ llrilain the v.ar debt owed hei o\ Fiance, in ret urn for the cession ot Jamaica, as well «s Die French Islandin West fmlics, including Martinuqm and other smaller Islands. These would I,; of the greatest strategic important e to 1 nited States.

PRISONER RELEASED

'Received this day at P.O a.m.) LONDON. Febinary 10. Joseph Dowling, one of the Irish soldiers whom Sir Roger Casement reeruitvd in a. (leiman internment camp am landed on the Irish Coast from a Herman .submarine in 101 S. lia.s been idea--ed. Dowling, after arrest, was courtmartialled and .sentenced to death for treason. The sentence later was commuted to imprisonment lor life. frozen to DEATH. LONDON. February 10 A Helsingfors correspondent, repoits several hundred Moscow Exiles 1 Mice, ding across the White Sea were froxco to death. Bolsheviks declare they perished while attempting to escape. AFSTRIAN OPERA NOT WANTED (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, February 0. The Vienna State opera's visit to London has been cancelled owing to the British Musicians Fnioiis opposition. There has been considerable opposition in London regarding the proposed visit. the Musicians' Ononclaiming that there was no need to introduce a foreign orchestra when British musicians were unemployed. Composers, musicians, actors and 1 authors also issued a manifesto proi testing against it, pointing out the visit would be detrimental to British ■ opera and asking what the Dominions visitors would think when arriving at . the Wembley Exhibition to find a foreign opera.