MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1924, Page 2

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

KING CONFINED TO PALACE [l’kuturk Tei.echams.] LONDON, Marcl) 3. INin <4 George is confined to tlto pill- n ace with a slight told, lie is taking precaution*, under medical advice, and is cancelling some engagements. ' .> JAPANESE FEARS. t [liv TKLEGUAPH—PEB I’ItESS ASSOCIATION.I TOIvJO, March 3. The Japanese are growing nervous regarding the Korean situation, whence reports indicate increasing hostility ol i the populace following the massacre of i Koreans during the Japenese earth- 1 quake. The Koreans have taken the ldond oath to kill a Japanese for every Korean slain. The unrest in Korea is growing. With the activities ul the Koreans, residents in Manchuria iurni [ilots and raids are increasing. The recent series of arrests of Japanese In Vladivostook have been traced to accusations by Korean informers in the employ of the Russians. There is also open aggressiveness of the Chinese. The possil > e rapprochement with th<* Soviet brings a request Ironi the Korean military commandment lor reinforcement of the Korean garrison Ironi two to five divisions, lb is also he*lieved that this actuated the .Japanese [ decision not to withdraw the military . guards from the south Manchurian railway.

A delayed and consoil'd mail from Siberia, reports the* Russian intention to drive the Russians out of Vladivostock. The Chinese agitation is now centering on Mukden, where Changtsolin, the erstwhile friend of Japan is supreme. Although many papers publish obituaries of l’rince Matsukata, announcing his funeral plans, apparently he is sitll alive. AIR ST.RATKtiV. LONDON. March 3. ,'fho '."Daily ('iironicle’’ says that the French Air staff is carrying out investigations which may revolutionise the strategy of naval warfare. In order to guard against aerodromes being attacked. they arc establishing teinote and almost imdiscoveiable bases on the Algerian coast, from which bombing planes would set out, receiving their supplies in mid-air from oil-carrying planes, by the method cabled on December 0. 15RITA I N I'NOKU, SNOW. LONDON. March 3. Practically the whole ol I'Siitaiu is new covered with snow. The tliermonndcr <m Monday afternoon was !).j in llir sun, on Hampstead Heath, where hnnoicds were tohoganning. IN( O.MIC TAX FRAUDS. LONDON, Maich I. Harris, the ilia mmiil morcliuiit, whose pi nSc.eution was cahlerl on February till, lias been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment m the second division, and lined .CotlU). Justice Shearman said laid, in view n| rite falsification of the books, ii was impossible to impose only a Hue. llairis lim d a fraudulent ‘'snowball” system of valuing bis stocks, under which ho returned no protit on the gems he sold oa the ground that, until all were sold, b, diil not know whether there would in any prolit.

01K L MURDERED. LONDON. .March L ' 'The Chichester police have olleivd two hundred pounds reward lor the murderer of \ era Hoad. It is believed that the girl was murdered in a motor ear and the body subsequently carried in the asylum grounds. Otherwise he! cries must have been heard ill the neighbouring houses. SHIP DISAPPEARS. PEKIN. March 4. A Chinese ferryboat mysriwiunriy disappeared last night. It had fifty passengers. It is believed that a gang, of pirates were aboard and got possession w l,il<; crossing the harbour. An exhaustive search of adjacent ■ waters has proved fruitless. She carried coal for lour days. THE RAILWAY DISPUTE. LONDON, March 3. Tin: London and Northeastern Railwayman's dispute has been remitted to the Industrial Court. Ht. Hon Mr. Shaw (Labour .Minister) in sending the ease thereto, informed the unions that the new Labour Ministry's considered policy was to deal thus with all differences, because the public is the tribunal ninth is to be considered. QUESTION OF EDUCATION*. LONDON, March 4. M'- Ti ovelvan (.Minister of Education) writing in the Labour magazine says a general reaction set in against the Geddes Committee’s narrow, soulless economic relation to education, which is likely to injure " bok scheme permanently. Ho had therefore reversed the engines. Advanced education should be available to nil children of the working, lower and middle classes 5s well as to the children of wealth. He was encouraging the local authorities to raise He school age to fifteen, and provide torty i„ stead of twenty-five per cent ol tree places in secondary schools; to restore •Suite scholarship- from _ State aided schools to flic Universities. APPEAL- TO BISHOP. (“Svdney Sun” Cables'. LONDON, March 4. \n appeal has been made to tlm Bishop of London to arrange tor a dozen superfluous city (hutches a signed bv Sir Christopher Wren, to 1,,” re-elected in the principal cities or the Dominions, as an alternative to their inevitable destruction, as a result of street widening schemes. A FIELD ACCIDENT. j LONDON. March 4. j While exercising the Prince of Wales! new hunter at Aldershot. Major Mctcalif was thrown and was sent- to the j hospital seriously injured. The Prince; following him. cleared the fence and, pulled un, and rendered first aid. ■ '■' i ill* IBUSBBDa !