MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1924, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

POSITION still serious.

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(Received this day at 10. ltd a.in.) LONDON, September 8.

The latest ollii ial report from .Madrid speaks of a slight ini) ;on incut in tlic situation in .Morocco; hut the fact that the position is still serious in indicated by the a n iioimcemcii ts from Tangier detailing the preeni iousness of tominiinicntions.

RAUNC .MOTOR IST KILLED. LONDON, September 8

Tiie famous lining motorist. Darin re.stti, w;is killed tit Jfrooklands thi morning in attempting to break tli world’s record. The car dashed throng] the iron fence bordciing the track'.

MR MACDONALD AT GENEVA. (IKNEVA, September ,’i. .Mr MacDonald has arrived. Th < 'rowd at the station loudly clieere and shouted “vive Ala' Donald.” “villa I‘aix.”

AGENT-GENERAL OK REPARATIONS. FAR IS. Se]:temher li. Seymour I*. Gilbert, ex-l nder Seine tary to the I'nited States Treasury Iwu been .niipointed to the post of Agent General of Reparations. He will nr rive in I’aiis in the middle of Sep tomber.

FIGHTING IN CHINA. I’KKIN. September ft

Fighting eommenced to-day at Ilwiingtu. twenty miles from Shanghai on the Shangliai-Nniiking railwtiy. There are no details owing to the seantv communication and the strict

censorship. The fighting up to the present has not been heavy. Every precaution is being taken to protect the foreign settlement and there seems no cause for aiixietv in that connection.

The first foreign power to land forces were the French. Eighty marines from the Jules Ferry landed at the French concessions this afternoon. CFOREMAN REVOLT. (Received this day fit 12.80 p.m.) GENEVA. September ;S. The Georgian delegate has received advice of the result of the revolt cabled on September 1. The resolutionaries hold half nf Georgia and bitter street fighting is widespread.

CYRIL .MAUDE TO RETIRE. LONDON, Sept. If.

Cyril Maude, the actor, will retire in 1925 after a farewell visit to America.

“ROUT OF THE I! EDS.” LONDON. Sept, ft

TI:o “D;iil.v Express” snecial correspondent, discuKsiiiLC tlio Coiiiimmist sotIricks lit the Hull Labour Conference, assorts the Socialist Party has definitely decided that no political candidate with a red tinge will he eligible for candidature at the nexL general election. Tie* correspondent adds: “The rout of the reds seems complete. They have boon steam-rolled by the Congress. No one could have forecasted such a*dramatic defeat. The Congress is thoroughly tired of the theory that the only good to the workers can come from Russia.”

ROBBING THE WOUNDED. PARIS. September If

A <ourtmartinl at Nancy sentenced Doctor Vnldins to twenty years on a charge of robbing the French wounded during the war, while a (lonium ambulance oflicer. Yuldins, who is a Heidelberg University Professor, did not alte.nd the trial.