MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1924, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[Reuters Telegrams.] ITALIAN .MINISTERS RESIGN. ROME, June 28. All the Ministers have resigned. The opposition groups met and resolutionoil unanimously not to participate in Parliamentary work until‘the Fascist militia was disbanded.

SPANISH TROUBLES. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). V (Received this day at S a.in.) LONDON, June 29. The “Daily News” Paris correspondent says a message from the Spanish frontier indicates' critical events are pending. .MADRID, June 29 General Derivera’s dictatorship is threatened owing to a division of army following the removal of Berenguar, formerly -Morocco, Madrid garrison are craHr ed to the barracks and the polciel civil guard has received special insiruc- • tioiis. Lcretigttar's friends are closely watched and a strict censorship Afc maintained.

BONNET ROGGE C-VSK. PARIS, June 29. As a further instalment of M. Herriot’s amnesty policy, M. Renault (Minister of Justice) has ordered the . retrial of Marion, Goldsky, and Landau the three who were sentenced in the famous Bonnet rouge treason case in 1915. Landau hail been provisionally liberated on the ground of ill-health. BRITAIN AND RUSSIA. LONDON, Juno ASlgj The "Daily Telegraph’s” iwlrttical correspondent says; There is a complete deadlock in the Soviet negotiations. A parliamentary meeting has been deferred during several weeks, as the British delegation has not been .successful in finding common ground with the Bolsheviks, who want a considerable loan without giving any guarantee that the safety of persons or property will lie recognised. Mr MacDonald will insist that the conference shall not he allowed to break up until the last extremity is reached, so the negotiations have been transferred to the City, trying to find a formula for the ljicognition of debts, thus far the restflt Inis where the bankers and financiers are mostly bo.oii negative. The Russians say that the rate of interest which they offer Britain is so high that the difference between it and any normal rate can be used to repay the old debts, hut they make a condition that the debts shall be reduced to ten per cent (li their original value. ■

PALACE RANSACKED. M LONDON, June The “Daily Chronicle’s’’ Paris correspondent siiys Messages from Lisbon state I In- famous Palace of (Villa Viccsa. the summer residence of the King of Portugal, which belongs to exKing Mnnoel has been ransacked by burglars. They took booty estimated to be worth Cl,-599.009. including massive silved dinner services, priceless tapestries, imcient gold wises, pictures by old masters. King ( arlos was staying, here when lie signed a decree deport-l ing the leaders ol the Portuguese RivJ publicans, and dropping" Ids pen, said: “I feel I have just Signed tßfl sentence of mv death.’’ Iwo \rljcT™ biter the King and his oldest son murdered in Lisbon. ' IRISH REPUBLICANS, a I LONDON, June 33 7 \ Dublin messages hint that the freeStale Government is seeking an oar!;r opportunity of releasing Mr Re ) alera, Mr Art O’Brien, and other rebels.

FRENCH COURSE IBOT. PARIS. Juno 30. There were extraordinary scenes at the end of a day’s racing, when tho crowd, exasperated by the judge disqualifying a creditable winner of the last race, licsiegod the Committee room and throw stones and chairs at tho owners and the Committee momliors, shouting: “Thievesl Crooks!”. Police and municipal guards, and their cavalry had to be called iruJJ surround the building before ordefl was restored.