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Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1928, Page 2

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[Special to Press Assn, by Radio.] GOVERNOR OF ROME. OFFICIAL VISIT TO LONDON. RUGBY, June 9. The Governor of Rome, Prince Spada Potcnziani,'and his wife, Donna Myriam Potenziani, were welcomed by the Lord Mayor (Sir Charles Batho) and the Lady ' Mayoress of London when they arrived at Victoria Station last night on an official visit to the city of London. To-day they will visit Windsor Castle and Eton College, and in the evening will he entertained at dinner by the Lord Mayor.

SAFEGUARDING DUTIES. BRITISH ENAMELLED WARE. RUGBY, June 9. The House of Commons yesterday passed a resolution imposing a safeguarding duty of 25 per cent, for live years on enamelled ware. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, President of the Board of Trade, recalled that tho original duty had been imposed in 1922 by Dir Lloyd George’s Government. When it lapsed in 1924, foreign imports had increased, but not to such an extent as to persuade the Safeguarding Committee in 1926 to- advise re-imposition of the duty. A fresh claim before the identical committee had now succeeded, because new evidence, including statistics of a census of i>roduction, had been adduced, showing that six out of eighteen firms in this country had been compelled to close down.

CANNOT VISIT ENGLAND. MILLIONAIRE TURNED BACK. RUGBY, June 10. Harry K. Thaw, the American millionaire, who killed Stanford White In New York in 1900, will return to New York to-day on the Cuna.rd liner Aquitania. He remained on the vessel when it berthed at Southampton on Wednesday, in consequence of the refusal of the Homo Secretary to allow him to land. Thaw tided to obtain a reversal of the Homo Secretary’s action, hut ho failed.

CAPTURE OF PEKIN. SOUTHERN PLEDGE BROKEN. RUGBY, June 10. It is officially confirmed from Pekin that General Sun-tsu, of the Sixth Shansi Army Corps, took over the city of Pekin on Friday without disturbance. Some difficulty, however, appears to have arisen over the withdrawal from tho city of the Northern troops of General Pao Yu-lin, a safe conduct for -which had l>eeii solemnly assured by the Nationalist Government at Nanking. Pao Yu-iin’s troops have not been allowed to proceed further than Tung ITsien, sixteen miles from Pekin, and have been disarmed and made prisoners. Urgent reprasntntio>ns have been made by the Diplomatic Body in Pekin to the Executive Council at Nanking tiiat it should fulfil its pledge.