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Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1924, Page 2

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BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuters Telegrams.] ANTI-SOYIKT REYOLT. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 0 A fierce struggle continues in Georgia between the Soviet’s forces and the insurgents, who are holding the principal Trans-Caucasian railway. Martial law has been proclaimed throughout Caucasia. Soviet reinforcements are now hurrying to the disaffected area. Many executions, under the Soviet , mu l , are reported at Batoan ain't Tillis. A DOUBLE SUICIDE. LONDON, Sept. !». Professor 11. G. Evelyn-White, lecturer at Leeds University, and a wellknown Egyptian archaeologist, coinmil ted suicide in a taxi cab at Leeds while proceeding to an inquest on Miss Helen Niiul, a music teacher, whither he bad been subpoenaed. The inquest disclosed that M.*ss Niiul had poisoned herself with carbolic mid. Correspondence between White and Miss Nine was produced at the inquest. A QUEER CAREER. DELHI, September 10. Action for maintenance was brought l,v the Maharanee of Tikari (a Euroloan) against her husband the Rajah ~, Tikari. a young Indian nobleman of Bengal. The action was dismissed. The plaintiff is an Australian girl, and was forntery .Miss Elsie Sitwell, whoso stauo name was Elsie Torrest. She vi-ited India in 1001 ill company with her husband, as members of a theatrical company. Later the couple wero divorced, and Elsie returned to India, and adopted Hinduism. She then married the Rajah of Tikari. The case hinged on a claim lor an annuity under a deed of giit- alleged to have been made by the Rajah of Tikari.

The Judge, in dismissing the claim, daelai'ed that the woman’s marriage with the Rajah of Tikari was illegal, because the plaintilT’s conversion to Tlindooism lias not been according to the Hindu law, and also because her divorce had been obtained from her former husband by frauduelnt moans, and without the jurisdiction of the Court.

The Rajah is now < lainiing the recovery of the Tikari family jewels from the plaintiff. As Mahrance of Tikari, i„ i.il.’l, Elsie paid a visit to Australia where she dressed in Oriental splendour entertaining lavishly, and she created a considerable sensation. THE- IRISH BOUNDARY. LONDON. September 10. TTie Ulster Association claims that ilu* statements in Tiiird Birkenhead’s letter to Lord Balfour served a twofold purpose, declaring they confirmed Ulster's view that Clause 12 of the Irish Treatv means a boundary rectification only; and secondly that it elicited a ]',*p|v from the Fico State Boundary Bureau proving that what the Freo Slate meant all along was dismemornnenL

AYORLT) FLIERS. WASHINGTON. September 0. The United States world Uiors have arrived from New York.

CATHEDRAL DOME FALKS. ROME. September 10. Tin* dome of the Cathedral of San Domenico at Palermo, collapsed, hut no one was injured. The Cathedral, was deseited. though on the previous day it was crowded on the occasion of a Eucharistic Congress. THE ST RANDED BARDIC. LONDON. Sept. !>. The salving of tin* liner Bardie continues to be interrupted by heavy weather, necessitating the landing ol the stevedores. The ship is reported to lie firmly on the rocks, and to ho Hooded. Large quantifies of wool and frozen meat have been taken to I'alinoutli. A “COFFIN” ST LEGKB. LONDON. Sept. f>. There lias been a series sensations piveding the St. I.ogcr. which is likely to go down in history as the “Coffin St* I.ogcr.” An epidemic of coughing has been sweeping ihe principal stables * Licit caused tin* scratching of Straitlac* (the Oak's winner). Hurst wood and Bright Night. It has also afflicted Sansovino, tlie Denny winner. To-day the ailment spread to Polyphontes, Salmon Trout nad Lord Astor’s Saint Germain. Five out of ten horses from the Mantua stables are nlfcrted. Del sire, tin* trainer of Polyphones, says there hits been nothing like this epidemic in his thirty year’s of racing experience.