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Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. OAIILE ASSOCIATION. SECRET DOCUMENTS STOLEN. (Received this day at 0 a.m.) PARIS, March 10. Officials of the Russian Embassy are in a panic concerning the disappearance of compromising documents during the night. It is understood they include a copy of secret code letters from Tehioherin and a copy of instructims to French Communists of a revolutionary plot. A NOVEL DEMONSTRATION. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) PARIS, March 10. The French Athletic Federation is organising a novel, impressive method ot celebrating the national fete, on August 1 li.li. Before dawn, a soldier blinded in the war will he conducted to Verdun Citadel where he will light two torches and hand them to two l imners, .representing respectively Runs and the provinces, with instructions to carry them to the ("iiknown Soldiers’ tomb at the Arc Do Triomphe, Paris. At the end of every kilometre the runners will pass the torches to others, till the last runners reach Paris in the evening, when the torches will lie handed to another mutilated ex-soldier in the presence, of a Guard of Honour, consisting of all the runners, who will include the pick of the whole country’s athletes.

ENORMOUS DAMAGE. TDK 10, March 19. Dnoliicial estimates of the damage caused by the fire placed it at fiftytwo million yen. The fire swept a whole suburb mostly comprising labourers dwellings. A part thereof also suffered in the holocaust; in September 1023. Rescue work is progressing. KING AND QUEEN DEPART. LONDON, March 10. Despite a cold misty morning, a large crowd at Victoria station cheered their Majesties at the station. There was no Guard of Honour or other military ceremonial when their Majesties left the "Palate, in a closed motor-ear, as the journey is private. The people en route cheered, the King raising his hat in response, ft was noticed that liis Majesty was rather thin and pinched. The Prince of Wales and Prince Henry hade their parents farewell at the station, bill there was no general /gathering of the Royal lamily. All possible formality and ceremony was avoided. Their Majesties suite on the vovage includes Sir Stanley Itewett (Court ApoLliecary).

THE WAN EKE 1C I ES. LONDON, March 20. The damage at Tassatuls is estimated at a quarter of a million sterling. Thousands visited the rums and watched the salvagers carrying wax effigies from the building and pictures from the valuable Gainsborough collection housed in the building. Police ( unstable Robertson, a wax policeman who stood at the entrance and deceived many thousands of visitors into addressing him, was one ot the first rescued, to the evident delight ul tlm real police outside, hut out of the hundreds of famous effigies only a few models ol notorious criminals in the Chamber of Horrors, including Peace, Cripprn, Vaquicr, Thompson and Bvwaters were saved. The crowd was chiefly anxious regarding the late ot Peace and ( rippen.

EARL OF A PR ES. LONDON, .March 19. The Earl of Yores underwent a severe operation in London. His condition is at present as satisfactory as could be cxncctcd. but the ground for anxicLy will not disappear for some time. A CONFESSION. CAIRO. .March 19. A railway workshop man arrested, confessed to participation in the murder of.the Sirdar; also an unsuccessful attempt on a locomotive manager in March 1922; also to murder Professor Robson, lecturer at the Royal School of Law, in December 1922. LONDON. March 19. Departure: from Suez, Opawa ; passed Table Bay: Karamea. DEMONSTRATION AT MALTA. rßeinFas Teleohaxis.l .Received this day at 8.30 a.in.)

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There was an extraordinary outburst on the part of the Fascists militia aboard the Italian steamer, which arrived this morning en route toll ipoli. The miltiamen gathered on the deck land vocrfermifdy sang the Fast i.sl hymn, raised cheers for Alussolini and lor the Italian militia. They hoisted the Italian llag astern.

The .Maltese sv.armed on the quays and counter demonstrated tor England.

The (situation became threatening, and the police unsuetessfully intervened. The Italian Consul was summoned to the .scene, alter which the flag was removed and the militiamen ordered below. TPe steamer IMt amid a hostile demonstration.

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The “Times” Geneva correspondent snvs the League Council aie notified ol an' alarming Poli.sh-Lithuaiiian all ray, which occurred on the night of the Kllli. Three hundred Boles armed with t,.n quick-firers are leportcd to have attacked the Lithuanian frontier guards between Km. no and Yilna. iort’in.r them to retreat, taking three prisoners. The Lithuanian Government requested tile League to take urgent measures to prevent a renewal of Polish attacks and to ensure the liberation of the prisoners.

BUTTER REGULATIONS. (“Sydney Sun’’ Cables). (Received tins day at B.JO a.m.) LONDON, Alnrch 19The Health Aiinistry slates it '••• moo living the preservatives final draft regulations of the loth, excluding therefrom neutralisers like bicarbonate of soda used he.ore pasteurising cream. The regulations therefore will not affect eighty per cent, of Australian and New Zealand butter exports. There is still some doubt regarding boric acid, whereon trailers disagree, some contending the prohibition would enable Australia and New Zealand to more effectively compete with Siberian and Argentine butler. .LEPROSY FUND. Calcutta, Aiarch 19. Three million rupees Uoin the public are being sought in Bengal alone as the nucleus of an all-India Fund to stamp out leprosy. Tnero are somewhere >n the region of a quarter o. a million lepers in India, not segregated. and forming a continual niena.c to the healtliv population. Calcutta market and other food centres' are dailv thronged with beggars m an advanced state of leprosy. I nhko Cevlon, there are no means at presen. of' dealing adequately with this scourge. The appeal is headed by the Viceroy.

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