BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION ITALIAN LANDSLIDE. 150 LIVES LOST. 110ArE, March 27. Further landslides have occurred at Amalfi. Huge lakes have formed and the whole landscape has been changed. Five villages, including Veitici, have

been wiped out. The victims now total at least 150. Many died lingering deaths under masses of rocks which crashed on the beach, cracking the boats and their occupants like egg shells. Houses collapsed like packs of cards. The dead include a woman and her seven children, all horribly disfigured. Floods of torrential water, thick with earth, rocks and vegetation, tore down the gardens on the hillsides and terraces, and filing them into the sea, drowning any people who wore caught. There are now- earthquakes at Amalfi. Combined with the landslides they have made thousands of peasants fly to Naples in a destitute .state. .Many shocking incidents are recorded. Little girls were found dead, hand in hand, under a wall. They were the last of an entire family to perish. Rescue parties are southing for their children under ruins, or children are searching for their parents. Relief measures are difficult as the roads are destroyed, and rough weather prevents .steamers from anchoring in the Amalfi district, which is a scene of desolation. King Emanuel is going to superintend the rescue work. EMPIRE SETTLEMENT. (Received this day at B.JO a.m.) LONDON, Alarcli 28.

.Mr AlacNaughten, Vice Chairman of the Overseas Settlement Committee, addressing the League of Nations Unions' Conference on unemployment, declared the Committee’s policy was to treat migration as entirely distinct from unemployment. If thero were no unemployment the committee’s policy, which was to organise the redistribution of the white population throughout the Empire for the benefit of migrants and the development of the Empire’s resources, could still he justified. He maintained that every dominion was entitled to refuse immigrants who were incapable of proving useful and doubted if the Dominions could absorb more than the present immigration quota unless they had an influx of new capitaul.

PRINCE OF AY ALES. (Received this day at 5.50 a.in.) LONDON, March 28. The Prince of Wales is making satisfactory progress, but is remaining indoors owing to tho cold winds. He cancelled his visit to the Grand National race which resulted, Master Robert I, Flymask 2, Silvo 3. MURDER CASE CONVICTION. LONDON, Alarcli 27. The jury returned a verdict that WardoH wilfully and brutally murdered Reaney. WOMAN’S SAD END. ißeceived this day at 0.0 a.in.) LONDON, Alarcli 28. Airs Evans aged twenty-four, was committed for trial for throwing hei baby from the window of Ipswich infirmary, while suffering from a fit of depression. The Governor and Doctor of Norwich prison allowed her to sit and sew in the lattndiy where other women were working. She suddenly threw herself into a copper of boiling watei and died of scalds. Her last words were: ‘They cannot take me to 4|-s----whh for trial now, Doctor. XEiW SEA!.. [Received ibis day at 9.0 a.m.) LONDON. March 28. The King created a precedent, figuring on the great seal of Britain an Admiral standing on the deck ol a battleship instead of on horseback as all mon a re) is have done since the Norman conquest. RADIO CALLS. (Received this day al 10 a.m.) LONDON. Alarcli 28. The British Radio Society during the past week made a nightly attempt to reach Australia and New /calami amateurs, using two hundred metre wa\e lengths and repealing Oie call words Australia, three 15. M. The transmissions were undertaken by the Dubdier Condenser Company's station: West London, which is not yet aware whether Australian and New Zealand listeners succeeded in receiving the messages. TRADES' UNION REQUEST. (Received this day at 10 a.m.) LONDON. Alarcli 28. A jcint meeting of Trades Union Congress and Labour Party urged that the Government, in the event of using an emergency committee should subsidise the whole of London traffic setvices, paving the wages the strikeis demand until the traffic problem is solved.

ludendorff TRIAL. (Received this day at 10 n.m.) BERLIN, March 28. The verdict in the Ludendoril tfin - will be announced on Ist. April. JAPAN’S FINANCE. (Received this day at 10 n.m.) TOKYO, March 28. The Finance Department decided to float loans totalling 285 million yen during the fiscal year starting on Ist April, excluding seventy-nine millions to carry over. The total old and new loans thus authorised are 304 millions. The items include rehabilitation of two hundred million ; railway habilitation, thirty-five millons old loans falling due are listed for renewal from the proceeds of recent New York and London loans. Officials hope to bring about an economic quickening and restoration of currency to normal.