BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 June 1922, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian and N.Z. C&ule Ab&ucju*. RAILWAY DISASTER. . BERLIN, June 14. Six carriages of the Berlin-Vienna express were derailed. Three people were killed and 40 seriously injured. A FRENCH LOAN. PARIS, June 14. The bill granting Austria ah advance of fifty-five million francs, has been passed by the 'Senate. AUSTRIA’S DEBT. PARIS, June 14. The Conference of Ambassadors decided to request creditor Governments of Austria to renounce their 20 years’ liens on Austrian revenue .in order .to permit of the application of a scheme of credits to the reconstruction of Austria.

BUTTER DEARER. CHRISTCHURCH, June 14. The price of butter has been further advanced by the factories Id per lb. The grocers have accordingly increased the retail price from 1/8 to 1/9 per lb. . A hardening in the London market is the reason ascribed by the factories for the readjustment of the prices •in Canterbury on a higher basis. WIRELESS PENALTIES. LONDON, June 14. Tn addition to giving the Government the power to control all wireless M-ition S ] n an emergency, a Wireless Telegraphy Bill first introduced in the House of Commons provides penalties for the generation of etheric waves for other purposes than wireless. There is also a penalty for broadcasting indecent communications, and for anv abuse of distress signals. CANDIDATE’S BEARD REMOVED. m, LONDON, June 14 house ofT 1 fO n Ce S- an entra ”ce to the

mit an ap P™ to them not to comland that Would Ire- •, nung oft the protesting wife mH FGris aft beai l a " d -oLTacl nJ afterwards stated' that the r«ders were very m „ ved , w ep t SOVIET AND CHURCH . MOSCOW, June 14. he Soviet Commissaries have ordered an inquiry into the conduct of the Rusian monasteries and convents, which are < eged to be centres of anti-Bolshevism. One at Kieff has been closed down, and the monks have been turned out.to wor m the fields. The Foreign Consuls at Moscow are' now being guarded like prisoners.