MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1926, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

FRENCH IN DAMASCUS

LONDON, April 21

The “Daily Mail's” Damascus correspondent reports that fighting is of daily Occurrence. The barricades erected by the French in the chief quarters of tile city are Oflusitig France’s Armenian and Circassian levies to resort to indiscriminate firing. Bullets are whizzing day ami night, many harmless citizens are being killed. The Armenians are committing many atrocities, looting and cutting off women’s hands to secure, rings and bracelets. The rebels frequently raid the city, kidnapping notables, whom they are bolding for ransom. RELIC OF FRANKLIN EXPEDITION LONDON, April 21. Tins of beef forming part of the stores of the Franklin expedition, abandoned at Beeehy Island in Barrow Strait in 1845. were opened by Professor Beatty of the Liverpool University. Tile, meat still looked eatable, though it was found among a heap of opened tins, which Captain Fir/.james had apparently thrown away eighty-one years ago uneaten, thus leading to the supposition that the expedition failed through an Admiralty fault of the packing of the meat. CAR ACCIDENT . GORE, April 22. W. P. Hailes, of Balfour, was driving homo by car last night, when be burst a rear tyre. The application of the brakes caused a capsize. Six people, who were aboard, .scrambled out and immediately afterwards the car (a CHirysler six) exploded, fire following, reducing the machine to ashes. All escaped uninjured.