MISELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1924, Page 1

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS

[ R ECTEUS Te LEGR AMS.] ISLAND ARREARS AND DISAPPEARS. DELHI. Marc-li 7. Thu island which suddenly appeared above the waters of Bengal Bay in X'evember has disappeared as mysteriously as if came, leaving a shoal dangerous to shipping. It was a thousand feet long, thirty high, and is presumed to have been the result of volcanie activity. .MOROCCAN WAR. LONDON, March 8. The Daily Express’s Tangiers correspondent reports that eighty thousand Moorish rebels are now mobilised into two division-. One is inarching in the direction of fshcuhuan and Tetuan, for the purpose of attackng the Spanish communications. The others are concentrating for operations in the direction of Melilla. The communications are still cut hefween ff’riziazza. and Azihmidar.

It is alleged that the Moorish aeroplanes are piloted by European officers wlio served in the Groat War.

General Weyler, Chief of flic Spanish Supreme War Council, is utilising the mo-t modern methods of warfare, including poison gas. LONDON, March 8.

The Daily Express’s correspondent states travellers arriving from Spain report the unpopularity of the Moroccan War is causing open talk of a revolution, especially as Spain is suffering from a prevalence of graft in the army. Soldiers are sent to war almost in rags, and wearing miserable boots so I hat many threalen mutiny. The sea-

soned troops are kept at Inline to quell the interna! I rouble, while raw recruits arc sent to Morocco.

ROWER FOR IRELAND. LONDON, March 8. Kciniciis Company, ol Berlin, have offered to harness the River Shannon to supply light, heating and power throughout. the Irish Free State. The Covcrnmeiil have accepted the offer. WKSTM I XSTEI! 15Y E-ELE( TION. LONDON. March s - The Abbey live-election is fixed for the RHh ot March and ninety-two Conservative Liberals are supporting Mr Churchill. NOTED SET'S END. EXECUTION OF MATA HARD EARLS. March 7. A sale of jewels and ofl’-er relics of Matahuli, the famous dancer who was executed as a spy in war time, has led the Chief of Pm I ice to reveal the story of the darner spy's arrest and to her execution at Vincentrcs in 1918. She was constantly under sin vcillain e io I9U>, and in 191(1. Eventually the Head of the Freucli Counter Espionage s'i'rvico called her to his office. Mo i .fit her that she would lie deported to Holland. Maiabari immediately offer-

to proceed .'is a spy to the German Clown Prince's headquarters ni Klenov

aying that she was madly in love "ith Russian, and lhut. she wauled a milon francs to many lum. Ihe Irem-li liicia 1 >:remised hoy money, bul In* add* •1 Gut she would lie -hot if -be faded

ni Per mission. Mat.-duirl n-lorti-d : "In six imoiDis I -ball marry my lover!" "She then loft Paris. going by way of .Madrid v-a-re she offered lo sell to a German Attache the iiifonnalion she had galli"i,. din [’nris. The Attache wirelessed to Germany, Inn the French intercept-

llif message. They t hereupon tclegrapiled to the French Attache in Ma- .!•■;<! ilmt Matalin.D should ho soul hock to Paris to receive money at the Huston Hunk. Maintain went and she ■ ;ts p; oinntlv onested ntitsitie tlie liouk. ■die then offered to reveol tdte secrets ot i !; . Herman soy oreotni -a t ion to Franco :t Iter life was spared. This olfer wo* rejected. ‘Very well.” replied (lie dtini er. “Then T shall soy nothing!” Her dying words wore:—“l love Germany. I hate France.” KTli IK KBS FI HKD ON. OKl.ill. March 7. Collisions between strikers in Bombay and police cidminnted in the latter tiring oil tile strikers. Two oi them ■.. tie killed and one injured. The military were called out. They have the situation in hand at tile present. HOr.F. IN Till': Civil. I NO. LONDON, .fan. 20. An ingenious burglary. resit 11 ing in the theft of about tSOO worth of jewellery. was discovered when the shop ol Mr A. Conyers, a jeweller in lirixtonrond, was opened yesterday morning. Neighbours saw the ilashes of a torch-light on the Hat roofs of adjoining simps oil. Sunday night, and Mr Conyers said yesterday that the thieves iiad apparently reached the roofs by the aid of railings protecting a back wall and emergency .''re escapes, and used the torch in locate the skylight over 1 1 is shop. A hit and brace were used to remove the iron liars, and an entry was gained by a drop oi about Sft.

Finding a door leading to the shop heavily barricaded with iron bars from the inside, the thieves used the bit and brace to make a hole big enough for a slim man to ;:et through to the floor above the shop, and a rope was lowered from the beams. Owing to the shop being lighted and the existence of apertures in the shutters through which the police and pas-sers-by could see inside, only jewellery in the lower part of the window was taken. A show-case on the counter was smashed at the bottom, which suggests that the thief was in a stoop-

ing position. The rope, which was left hanging front the ratters, was evidently used to escape by the same way ns the thieves had come.