BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

LATEST CABLE NEWS

(UHTKALIAN AND N.Z. CAIII.K ASSOCIATION. For I, HAS TRAGEDY. LONDON, June in, Ihe “Daily Telegraph" Rome correspondent says that while a party of thirty were dining in the gardens of a country restaurant on the Via Aventino. a hoy while playing, stepped on hoards covering a well sunk in connection with the Drainage Board. It collapsed and the hoy fell in. Another bo.v descended by a ladder, but he did not return. Four persons then tried to descend successively. Each reeled and disappeared. Three others attempted a re-cue while Carabinieri and firemen were being summoned, but the Well wa.s Inill-filled with noxious gases, and as each inhaled these, he became unconscious, finally a fireman brought out- six oi them dead, and three still j breathing, who are expected to recover.

FRENCH OLYMPIC BATHS

PARIS. Juno ft. Lupi-cini, at pest on relies, where tlir Olympic swimming and Hater polo con. tests ate held, is an immense concrete structure. It will accommodate twelve thousand. There is a great open air hath, supported by enormous pillars, making leakage icpairs easy. Access to it is gained by climbing three Hoots. There are furnaces beneath the pool, which is AO metres long, and 18 wide. They keep the water,at a temperature of 7~> degrees Fahrenheit. BRITISH ATHLETICS ACCIDENT. 'LONDON. June 10. Guy Butler, the lamous Cambridge quarter miler. tore the muscles of his fight thigh at Stamford Bridge, seriously prejudicing the hopes of a British win in the 101) metres at the Olympic (lames. i THE RAILWAY STRIKES. I CLAIMS AND COUNTER CLAIMS. LONDON. March 10. The Railwav strike situation i- ollieiallv reported to lx* still improving, although H!) station- are .-till closed. Trains are operating on all lines. Fifteen hundred more of the miiform"d staff have returned to work. The diliiciilt.v now is to increase the output at the power houses so u> to increase the number of trains running.

.Meanwhile strike headquarters claim that the strike i- extending. Tic • •rent Central railway shopmen at Ancrloy and Nottingham are now out and the shopmen and power house men on the London underground are -olid! The ell'ecl of tic strike u ill l.e tell very shortly because the repairs to rolling stock are piling up.

JAP STORES AND THE BOYCOTT TOK l(>. .lime It).

Representatives of the Kikosha Society and the American organisation Which are principally composed of students. visited the retail stores and advocated a boycott of American goods. The majority of the managers agreed to the principle of the boycott. The manager of the largest Department store angered the students by declining to give a definite answer because it wa.s a joint stock concern and he was unable to pledge the sha I'e hull levs. Sev-

eral managers warned the agitators of the danger of an American eomiterhoyentt which Japan could not afford.

RUSSIA AFTER LOAN. LONDON. June 10

M. Litviuolf ha- arrived. The “Evening Standard" -ays In- L summoned in the liepes of solving the deadlock in connection with the A nglo-Soviel Con. I'ereiice proceedings. His chief mission, however, i- to secure the loan which .Mr Ramsay MacDonald refused to guarantee.