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Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1924, Page 3

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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. I“Tiik Tl.ui:s 1 Si.iutck.J f RIOT IN NAPLES. ROME. Aug. 1?. A tint iii Naples followed an tit tempt In oppo.-ii ion parties to hold ; meeting to defiance ni police prohihi • i"ii. 'I in* police charged tlm demon -trator-, whom the Easei.-ts were lighting. Revolver- were lived inccss n"tl\ and two eiviliiins were killed and -i\ wounded. Ten earahiniers were wounded.

BATTLESHIP V. SCUM A RINK. (Received this day at 12.-If) p.ni.) v LONDON. Aug. |s. I hat hatlleshijis are still supreme is ’ the opinion n! Admiral De Roheek, ” "ho, interviewed by tlm Evening .Standard. staler nothing happened in the war to modify In- laith to I hi' slighfC' l - extent that in the next war hat lle-hlp- Would illstity themselves. D ni R l I the appliance- now used had leen a valla hie. hat I le.-hips Would have been from r.'i to -ii per cent stronger, and there would now have been no 'l'lcstion ol then indispeiisihilitv. |u tie next war it would he found that the stthmariiie menace would he nonexistent. heeatl.-e the dangers to submarines would lII' too great to permit ol their extensive operations. EKEECT OE THE LOAN. I (Received ilds day ai I p.m.) LONDON. Aug. IS. >:r Peter Hylands. interviewed. pointed on! I lint I bough the loan t > Germany under the Dawes scheme might he t o their general advantage, through eau-ing an inerense in Ger-I many'.- eon-timing power. it ,-hould I ! he overlooked that it would also stimulate the German steel trade in which -he was Britain's most tormid I ahle competitor. Sir Edwin Slrekton emphasised (|i : , I point that by putting Germany on her | feel again we were equipping the sc-I vere.-t eninpetitor that Britain ever had or was likely to have. t