BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 June 1923, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

-o (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association ATHLETICS. STOCKHOLM, June 20.

Carr won a sixty metres race a Christiania in 6 4-5 secs. LIQUOR ON LINER. LONDON, June 20. The liner Olympic has sailed fo New York. She is carrying in special chamber, under British cus toms and excise seals, a moderate suj ply of liquor for the passengers’' us on the homeward voyage. GREEK SPECULATIONS. ATHENS, June 20. The Government has closed th Athens Bourse for one month, owin; to the recent fluctuations in the ex changes and , speculation bringing about a panic. BULGARIAN REVOLT IT R IN. PARIS, June 20.

The new Bulgarian Minister or the Interior interviewed, states that order has everywhere been established Hr estimates that only sixty or seventy were killed during the revolution. PRISONERS DEPORTED. NEW YORK, June 21. Twenty seven political prisoners of whom Harry Gray, an Englishman, is one, will be deported. CHINESE TRAINS. TOKIO, June 21. Japan’s charge d’affairg at Peking reported that the British minister lias suggested that the Powers maintain a guard on the principal Chinese trains, but the majority of diplomats do not favour the suggestion, Japan particularly opposing hasty intervention. EXPLOSION AT SCHOOL. LONDON, June 20. Mr Cohen, assistant master in Stepney Council School, was giving a demonstration before a science class ol fifty boys when a flask of sulphuric acid exploded, injuring Cohen and nineteen of the boys. Though half' mad with pain, the boys’ discipline was

splendid. z AAIERICAN HEAT WAVE. NEW YORK, June 21. The heat wave reached 95 degrees yesterday. It killed twenty-one persons throughout the United States and is causing many cities to open parks for night sleeping. The heat reached 104 in Connecticut. TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS. LONDON June 20.

juvai'i 0011, u u.ne eo. The draw for the Wimbledon Tennis Championship shows Lacoste, Washer, Johnston, Norton, Crawley, and Woosman are in the first half'; and Lycett, De Gomar, Fyzee. Greig, Alishu, Gilbert, and F. Lowe in the. second half. There is a possibility of Aidlle Lenglen meeting Airs Alallory in a semifinal. Misses Ryan and AlcKane will probably be. other semi-finalists. WAR MEMORIALS. LONDON, June 21. Sir J. Allen will unveil a sculpture at the opening of the Garden of Memory at Les Quesiiy on July 1. He wil unveil on the following day a tablet in Amiens Cathedral in honour of the New Zealanders who participated in the Somme battles. ’ WHEAT PRICES. NEW YORK, June 21. The Wheat Growers’ Conference at Chicago rejected by a two to one majority a resolution providing for the establishment of a grain corporation for the pur-

pose of buying all American farmers’ wheat when the price descended to 150 cents. It was the opinion of the conference that wheat prices would be stabilised, but by an increase in domestic consumption rather than by Government subsidy. IMPROVING MARRIAGE. LONDON, June 10. Dr. Cirincione, head of the medical group of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, has introduced a resolution urging the Government to amend the clauses of the civil code relating to marriage, so as to compel prospective brides and bridegrooms to produce a “duly authenticated declaration on the part of each- that they have duly seen and noted a medical certificate proving the sanitary condition. of the other.” PROTECTING CHILDREN. LONDON, June 20. Maim- Pmret introduced in the

House of Commons a Bill for the let-r ter protection of young children. It was read the first time. The Bill provides that any man convicted of sexual offences- against' children under thirteen years of age, may be privately whipped, in addition to being imprisoned. Mr Buchanan, a Labourite opposed the Bill, submitting that, not whipping, but education and good housing would cure this evil. HYPNOTISM CRAZE.

Jill DlUl AOJML KyAtiXkXJAU. LONDON, June Kf. Hypnotism has become such a craze in Vienna, says the correspondent of the “Daily Mail” at that town, that the police are taking severe measures to stop its j practice by amateurs. A lawyer, complaining that his wife, a Hungarian countess, had been hypnotised by another - lawyer from Budapest, thrashed him with > a dog-whipj Another man learned * hypnotism in order to cure his intended ’ bride of a nervous complaint. Students of , both sexes, and school children of all ages, are hypnotising each other, which often results in injury to health, apart from its moral dangers.

LIQUOR EXPORTATIONS. OTTAWA, June 21. The Commons deefated two Bills submitted with the object of curbing liquor eportations. The first would make it unlawful to ship liquor to any foreign coun-' try until a Consular certificate from that country was granted showing the importation was legal under’its laws. The second Bill would make it unlawful to export 'liquor by any vessel previously in the liquor trade, unless the owners proved the former cargo reached the port 1 of destina-

tion. The passage of these Bills would have considerably reduced the exportations to the United Sttaes, which are legal si-far as the Canadian law is concerned.