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Hokitika Guardian, 10 February 1925, Page 2

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[ItisuTERS Telegrams.] LOVE TRAGEDY IN LIFT. BUDAPEST, Feb. 8. An amazing love tragedy occurred in the elevator of the fashionable Kilsu Hotel. Kiraly, the lift attendant, fell madly in hive with Elizabeth Adam, aged 20, a pretty chambermaid, and when the latter entered the lift Kiraly kept her a prisoner while he passionately pressed his suit. The girl was so frightened when Kiraly refused to stop and finally, maddened by the girl’s refusal. lie stabbed her to the heart. Kiraly then took the lift to the top floor and cut the arteries of his own wrists. The girl died a few hours later, hut Kiraly was rescued from bleeding to death and he is now in a critical condition, but is expected to recover. TURCO-GREKK CRISIS. SITUATION IMPROVING. ATHENS. Feb. S. An improvement in the Tureo-Greek situation arising out of the expulsion of the Greek Patriarch is announced, and a decree disbanding the 1922 military class, which has heel) with-held some days, will !>e promulgated this week. THE OPIUM CONFERENCE. GENEVA. Fob. 8. At a plenary sitting ot the Opium Conference Al. Towela (Finland), in submitting the report of the committee on the American proposals and on French statements in regard to the gradual suprossion of opium smoking with in the stipulated time, said the failure to reach an agreement was more apparent than real. The speeches of the Britii-li, French and Dutch delegates clearly showed that their Governments were ready to suppress the use

of opium. , . It was agreed the League of Nations should fix the date from which the period of id years should run. If the producing countries adopted a similar attitude, the opium problem could lie solved very soon. Doctor Sze. in a letter notifying the withdrawal of China, gave his assurance that the Government of China would exert all its power to enforce a policy prohibiting the producing of opium for other than medicinal and scientific purposes. ST. PAUL’S FUND. LONDON, Fell. 8. The “Times” St. Paul’s fund lias now reached £227,857. NO All LIT ARY PACT. LONDON, February fv The “ Daily Express” says editorially that Air Austen Chamberlain in the plainest language lie given to understand that British public opinion, irrespective of party, will not agree to a pact militarily guaranteeing Franco and Belgium against Germany. It says “ It is certain the Empire as a whole will never accept such a commitment, therefore it would lie a direct threat to the unity of the Empire. If Britain were forced to choose between defending the French frontier and preserving the Empire, she will unhesitatingly choose the latter. ’

FORCED TO LEAVE. LONDON. Fob. 9. Dorothy Thurlntru has been forced la leave England owing to the continuance of anonymous letters, often obscene. which have been arriving continuously since her trial. Dorothy and her mother are cutting themselves off entirely from friends and are going abroad to an un-jiamed place, hoping thus to escape. Airs Thurlmrn and her daughter complain that the police have done nothing to find the real culprit.

A NEWSPAPER COMBINE. LONDON, February 8. The “ Financial News ” states that the Allied Newspapers Ltd., which recently acquired Hulton’s Manchester newspapers, are now taking over the Newcastle “Chronicle ” group at a cost of Cl .750,000. The Allied Newspapers Ltd., also own the “Sunday Times.” DANISH DISARMAMENT. COPENHAGEN, Feb. 8. General Birke, Military Chief of Slaif, criticising the Danish Government’s Disarmament Bill, declared that the prospect of war was greater now than it was in 1914. Russia, however, governed must, and would reach the sea again, he said. If she attacked the border States, possibly with Germany’s assistance, the Western Powers would be hound to intervene, and Danish waters would then ho the middle of the conflict. SEVEN DEATH SENTENCES. MOSCOW, February 8. After a trial lasting a mouth, seven officials of the Leningrad State Leather Trust, were sentenced to death fur a " so-called economic counter revolution.” The officials -made contracts with private dealers, thereby securing private profits. Three other directors of the concern got eight rears’ imprisonment on the same charge.