BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1924, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

[Reuters Telegrams.] SUBMARINE’S RECORD VOYAGELONDON. Aug. 13. Submarine X 2G, the largest in theBritish Navy, has returned to Portsmouth after’a record unaccompanied voyage of 20,G00 miles to the Far East ami hack. It is regarded as a triumph of submarine construction. ALPINE ESCAPE. CLIMBERS FALL 300 FEET. LONDON, Aug. 13. The Daily Express Geneva correspondent says that three young Italians, corded together, without a guide fell three hundred feet when near the 11,•120lt. summit of the Grand Deitel, olio of the most famous peaks in the Mount lllanc Range. Tho cord, howevet, struck an overhanging rock, miraculously supporting them as they hung helpless in space over a glacier two thousand feet below. The accident was witnessed through telescopes from Chamonix by the Alpinists. They were rescued after hanging in mid-air for si horns. One had a broken leg. The” second was half mad with the pain of internal injuries. Tho third had sustained a slight wound.

FORTRESS- DUMP EXPLODES. v- [ REVTERS TF.T.I’.GItAMS.4 'Received this day at S a.m.) ROME, August 13. Advices from Brescia state that a nitroglycerine dump exploded at tho Roeca-Antlo fortress, causing considerable damage. The road is so littered with debris that trafiie is interrupted. Two bodies have been recovered. THE EGYPTIAN TROUBLE. CAIRO, August 13. A communigue states that British troops were not present when the Egyptian Railway Battili.ms fired <>" Atharia. Apparently the Sudan Arab mounted rilles fired without orders under great provocation. CHINESE SERVANTS’ STRIKE SETTLED. PEKIN. August 13. The servants strike -at Hongkong

(cabled July lOtli) has been settled