IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17227, 18 August 1921, Page 7

IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

Lady Randolph Churchill, wiho died in June, left £38,097.

A Rome message says a. severe earth* .quake occurred at Massaua, in Eritrea, on the Red Sea. A number of hoiisei oollnpsed, four people being killed and twenty injured.

A Cairo message says an aeroplane conveying General Newman, Chief of. the ■General Staff in Egypt, crashed at Heliopolis. The pilot was killed, and General Newman's recovery is doubtful.

A Royal Commission, headed by Lord Sumner, has been appointed to consider British claims for compensation for sufferings and damage arising out of enemy actions during the war, and to recommend a basis of distribution among mica of £5,000,000 from t)he first reparation payment that Britain receives.

The Revo! correspondent of "Politlken" (Copenhagen) says that a British financial group, in which Viokera, Ltd., and Sir W'. G. Armstrong,. Whitworth and Co. are interested, have practically completed arrangements to acquire a concession in ltusaJa's largest dockyard at Nicokieff, in the- Black Sea, The Soviet Government will receive a commission of 25 per cent, on the output.