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Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1924, Page 3

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IUBTRALIAN AND N. 7.. CAIII.E ASSOCIATION. •MANDATED TERRITORIES. GENEVA, June 25 A comprehensive statement of the recent activities of the Permanent •Mandates Commission was read bv .M. I’appnrd, head of the mandates section, lie referred to the South African Commonwealth Government’s acquiescence to the desirability of extending international conventions the mandated territories. The Australian Government expressly declares its inability to recognise the League’s right to cancel a mandate without the consent of the Council of the League should he obtained in regard to mortgaging public works in mandated territories and the rights of liabilities of the mandatory should not he prejudiced hy transfer to another.

A FEMALE FIEND. LONDON, June 2li The Daily Express Mo-cow enrres pinident says : —Anatasiii Permiakova I a gipsy clairvoyant, with her hiishani; and six female accomplices, has been I sentenced to death for horrible murders of Iwenty women and girls, permjakova escaped from prison during the Russian Revolution, while serving ' a murder sentence. Then she organised a murder gang. They pillaged villages, and held up trains, and she afterwards settled down to clairvoyance at Perm. She had a huge clientele of women, many of whom mysteriously disappeared. The crimes were not detected till Permiakova called ai a solicitor's house and told his beautiful daughter's future. She ordered the girl to hare her neck, to see if she had a lucky mark. Then she murdered her with a hatchet. The police found iu the woman's lint ten bloodstained

hatchets. Thirteen other accomplices received long sentences. AUCKLAND LOAN. (Received this dav at 10.25 a.in.) LONDON. June 20. Auckland Harbour Hoard's loan has been fully subscribed. A FIZZLE. LONDON. Juni: 20 The Russell divorce proceedings were withdrawn and the decree nisi rescimlI ed. IGNORANCE OF EMPIRE. LONDON. .Tune 20. In an interview Sir James Craigie. a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council, who conferred with prominent Conservative and Liberal statesmen, said that the public’s ignorance of and indifference to the Empire’s welfare was astounding. The mass of the people did not realise that the time was gone when Britain was only an important part of the Empire. The British pulitcians must stir the imagination of the people and educate their minds to grasp the modern meaning of Empire. North England and Scotland showed more interest in the Empire than the south of London showed. He attributed this to the feverish rush of London life, in which everybody was a specialist in his respective calling, with no time to study wider interests.

\MEIMCAN WORLD FLYERS. DELHI, June 20 I'ho American livers have reached lent t a.