MISELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1924, Page 2

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS

XL'STIt. HAN AND N.Z CAIILE ASSOCIATION

AN EGYPTIAN .MOVE,

CAIRO, June 9.

The Government has declared war upon Bolshevism, following on the disturbances in .March last, when workshops and mills were seized, and tlie managements wore expelled. The Government appointed a Commission to investigate the origin of the outbreaks, which they largely attribute to bolsheviks. Acting on the recommendations made in the Commission's report, the Government has decided to prosecute eleven Egyptians on charges of conspiring to overthrow the present political order.

The Government is also negotiating with tlu* diplomatic representatives of the various powers for the expulsion from Egypt of a number of foreigners accused of similar activities, the allegation being that they are Communists who are closely associated with the Soviet organisations at Moscow.

BRITISH LEGION. LONDON. June P

The Duke of York, addressing a conference of 800 delegates representing 2IBS branches of tlie British Legion, said that history had revealed the unedilying truth that, however a nation might remember its great victories, its memory of those who made its victory possible was generally short. This would have been true of tho v real AVar. but for tlie British Legion, which every three years, made itself a definite place in the life of the nation.

To-day, the Duke of York and Earl llaigh headed a procession of .‘IOOO Legionaries to the Cenotaph, on which they jointly placed a large poppy wreath.

REVOLT IN ALBANIA,. BELGRADE, June 9

Tho Revolutionaries are now masters of the situation in Albania. They are concentrating against the Government’s stronghold at FI Hasan, whero eight thousand loyalists are entrenched. A BANKING BILL. LONDON, June 0. The ‘'ALorning Post” says:—“Details of the Ihiiikine Bill will he awaited with interest, hut, broadly speaking, the lines proposed appear well designed to overcome some of the problems of currency and exchange which have been so hampering to imperial trade with Australia during lhe past year. THE WEMBLEY COWBOYS. TWO NARROWLY ESA PE DROWNING. (Received this day at !).25 a.m.l LONDON, June !L Extraordinary scenes were witnessed bv thousands of spectators at Kew bridge when two cowboys tried to swim tlie swollen Thames on horses. They were swept off in midstream and narrowly escaped drowning. As a result of this episode the horse race across the Thames, in which thirtynine Wembley cowboys wore to purti-

| eipate. was abandoned. | Floundering through four feet of i Thame- mud the cowboys. Aldrich and Walker, urged the horses into the I deep water where they were caught by a -l mug I. The current swept them like corks down stream. The : crowd had hitherto regarded the affair a- a joke. Inn now realise the men and horses were lighting for their lives. A rowboat, in which was a eow- | hoy with a lassno, mid Walker's sister, | who is a champion swimmer, made desperate efforts to reach them. . Walker was rescued and the exhaustj ed horse lassooetl and lied to a boat, i .Meanwhile Aldrich, who is unable to swim, was unseated and disappeared downstream. When his head reappeared Mis.-; Walker, plunging in. piloted llie cowboy to the shore. The horse reached the bank. A FATAL DEMONSTRATION*. < Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) PARIS, June !). An extraordinary fatality at St. Die occurred as a result of a controversy between two electricians as to the lethal power of electric current. One, name.. Rogers, insisted that it was possible without danger to climb to the toil of a .standard carrying high tension current provided be did not touch the wiles, lit* proceeded to cliiiih the standard to which wires carrying a current of sixtv-five thousand volts were attached. As he neared the tup his companion heard a tremendous report and saw Roger’s body di-appiraring in flame-. The hotly was | til.•rally earhoni-ed by the current illld | every shred «.f clothing vanished. | THE SINGAPORE BASE. 110-N NEWMAN’S VIEWS. LONDON*. June S. A letter is piibii-lied in “T he Tillies” from Hnu Edward Newman, the New Zealand Legislature (’nuncillor. saving that if any party, or parties in England desired to weaken the links binding the Empire, they could not devise a better method of so doing than tin* course adopted l:v the Imperial Government during the last few months—first by it- action m regard to tariff preference, and now. in what appears to he the final abandonment of the Singapore base. He adds:—“Rightly or wrongly,’* those parts ol the Empire hounded by the Pacific consider the I a-e essential to their protection. This opinion is founded on reports given by the highest naval authorities. It is the custom in this country to laugh at the ‘yellow peril.” Australia and New Zealand are inclined to take a different

view. Tlie-e countries are nearer what w ill probably be the danger zone in the next war than i- England, and they know a little more about the subject. Therefore. I venture to -into that the action of the Government in disposing of the plant a—eniblcil for the construction of the base at Singapore will lie strongly onudein.icd bv many loyal Australians and New Zealanders.”