IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17103, 26 March 1921, Page 10

IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

A Borne message says Archbishop Mannix haa arrived there. He is staying at the Infill College. '

A "London message says the Hon. John Premier of -New South Wales, has-gone on. a. week's tour of the battlefields of France and Flanders. On the motion of the Lord. Chancellor, the House of Lords created a tribunal to enquire.' into the allegations against officials of the Ministry of Munitions.

An Amsterdam message says the Constitutional Reform Bill provides that the First Chamber shall be elected by the provincial States, proportional representatives and women's suffrage.

A Cairo messago says Mr Winston Churchill agreed to meet a Palestine deputation at Jerusalem on Monday. The deputation, believing that Mr Churchill supports Sir Herbert Samuel, w3l probably proceed to London.

A London message says three armed men held up a motor-car at Regent's •Park, containing three officials of the Ministry of Pensions. They stole the car and £2OOO in, treasury notes, intended to pay wages.

In> the House of Lords, Lord Blcdisloe, seeking increased penalties against dog smuggling,' said there was reason to believe that the outbreak of rabieß in England was duo to dogs smuggled by Australian soldiers, by "aeroplane from France.

An extraordinary case puzzled tho surgeons at the Harrogate Hospital, even after an oporation. The sufferer, a young woman, subsequently diagnosed on her own account, disgorging 191 gramophone needles and one penny which, evidently, were an important pari of her dietary.

A London message of the 23rd, says that mails by the Orient liner Ormonde, which arrived at/Toulon on Monday, will not be delivered before Thursday. Business men complain at the delay, which prevents their dealing with correspondence before the outward mail leaves. \

A Washington message says it is announced that the United States has demanded that Germany must surrender G. C. Bergdoll, a. wealthy Philadelphia '-slacker/' who escaped from his guards while serving a prison sentence fir evasion of the "draft" during tha War, and fled to Germany. The demand also includes the release of Carl Neuf and Frank Zimmer two Americans who attempted to kidnap Bergdoll from German territory, and Who were sentenced to imprisonment by German Courts.

' A Milan message says ft bomb exploded in a theatre. Twenty persons were killed and.many are dying. lij is believed that the outrage is a re-, tnliation by Anarchists for the imprisonment of Malatestn., Following upon the throwing of the l>r ,nb in the Diana Theatre by which eighteen of the audience were killed, and 100 injured, the Fascisti surrounded the office of the newspaper "Humanita Nuova," whoso untrue report that Mnlntesta had died in prison from the effects of a hungerstrike; caused the outrage. They destroyed the machinery and set _the building on fire.

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