MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1925, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

iCBTIiAMAN \ND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. TRAILING WITH THE ENEMY. BRUSSELS, Fob. 13. Baron C'oppcc lias Toon ordered to pay twenty million francs damages for war time trading with the enemy. Coppeo last year was acquitted on a charge of supplying the Germans with the oy-product.s of his coal nrinCfi, inr lading benzol. LATEST PARTICULARS. BERLIN, February 13. The victims of the Dortmund explosion are married. One family lost the father and live brothers. The cause of the explosion is reported to be lire damp. Ihe mine was regarded as most efficient anti the safest in the Ruhr. It employed three thousand and the yearly output was one million tons.

OPPOSITION MOTIONS. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) LONDON. Feb. 13. The Labourites and Liberals bolii tabled motions against the Government’s safeguarding of industries policy for Monday’s debate. The former in the names ol Messrs .MacDonald and Snowden declared the Government’s policy, as disclosed in a White Paper, must lead to a system ot general tariffs, which will not enlarge the volume of trade or safeguard the interests of the workers as regards employment, wages and conditions. 'i’he Liberal motion, in the names ol Messrs Simon aim Mr l.loyd George, disapproves of the Government’s policy as opening the way to an unlimited series of protective duties involving a method of enquiry by the committees over which the Commons litis no control, creating uncertainty and obstructing the development ol many important trades, and not giving adequate opportunity for securing the interests ol ‘lie consumers and. poor families.

PULE RUNS AMOK. (Received this day at, 11.25 a.m.) PARIS, Feb. 13. Alexander Rzogola. a young Pole, lodging-with a family called Holla, at llethune, fell in love with the daughter, who is aged 18. The parents discovered the lodger was an undesirable character and gave him notice. Rzogola shot the father and mother dead and seriously wounded his sweetheart. He then attempted suicide. Meanwhile a brother and a son of Holla, who had barricaded themselves in a room during the shooting, jumped out of a window, secured a revolver anil confronted the murderer v.-lio was only slightly wounded, and killed him.