BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1924, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

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BRITISH AND NAT IVES CLASH

CONSTANTINOPLE. July 29.

A telegram from Audann states that a British patrol was attacked in the Market Place of Mosul. There were casualties on both sides. AORICCLTCIt E CONKERENCJ".. LONDON. July 29. New Zealand delegates attended a conference on Agricultural co-o|*cra-tinn in the Empire at Wembley. Mr Noel Dixon, who presided, said some ol the Dominions gave specific State assistance to co-operation. Ihe British Government had recently allotted L"2(KI.0:«) for the purpose of loans to cooperative enterprises engaged ill the preparation and marketing of agricultural produce.

FLOP It RISE IN BRITAIN

LONDON, July 29. The flourmillers announce a further rise in flour of Its per sack to 48s Od, compared with lls Gd on July Ist. TRAIN SMASH. LONDON. July 28. Four persons were killed mid twenty live injured through a collision nt tho Havmarket- station, Edinburgh. LONDON. July 29 The victims of the Edinburgh train smash wore mostly women and girls, members of a Polytechnic holiday par tv from London. Oxford and Manchester. residing temporarily in a hostel at Edinburgh. They had been on an excursion to Saint Andrews. They had just transferred into a stationary suburban train.

Seventy-live minutes elapsed before the last of those injured could he extricated from the telescoped carriages. Every movement of the structure with the crowbars evoked groans from those pinned under it. Doctors succoured the imprisoned persons with brandy, while the rescuers wore smashing thewoodwork.

The Edinburgh accident was caused through an incoming train running into a stationary train. Four carriages of the hitter wore telescoped. CAUSE OF SINKING. TOKIO. July 29. The accident to the Tairei Marti was caused hv a collision with the Shitnim Mam in a dense fog. The former sunk in twenty minutes.

X VURU PHOSPHATES. LONDON, July 28

The Australian Press Association has been authoritatively informed that certain newspaper cables from Australia, imputing recalcitrance by the British Government, in reference to Nauru Island and stating this resulted in a dead-lock, are wholly unfounded. It is also untrue that the agreement between Britain and Australia and New Zealand will expire in 1920. The agreement is a perpetual one. but the allocation of the output of phosphates from Nauru is rcviewable in five yearly periods, the first- of which is in 1920. SIT- Dickinson, the British Phosphate Commissioner, is of the opinion that Britain cannot afford to surrender her rights under agreement, because Nauru and Ocean Island possess the most valuable deposits in the Fan pire. The only reason why Britain is not- participating in the output is because the North African product is cheaper, owing exchange. S"c: , Kinc with a 29years’ knowledge of the Nauru and Ocean Island iW-Jt- - considers

that they are sufficient for one hundred rears.

WARLIKE MOVE. LONDON. Julv 28,

The Daily Express says that the Roumai«i — War Ministry has stopned D'< army leave anil lias "Mobilised the reserve officers. The War Ministry Iris begun to concentrate troops in Bessarabia. wherein martial law has been declared.

LONDON. July 29.

The “Daily Express’s” Bucharestcorrespondent says:—“There is excitement throughout lioumania. owing to the appearance of Russian warships oil the coast ol Bessarabia. Ostensibly, they are there for the purpose of manoeuvres, but large forces of Hods are 1 oncciit rating simultaneously on the frontier.”

AGAINST GERMAN LOAN. LONDON. July 29,

"flic National l ninn of Manufacturers have petitioned the House of Commons and tlie House ol Lords, protesting against a forty million loan be allowed to Germany, on Die ground that it would help the dumping of German manufactures in Britain, and it

Would increase (feruian 'competition with the Dominion'. Colonies and India. entailing lower wages and inc'rcas ed unemployment. I’ll ESI DENT CALI,ED SLIPPERY F.EE. (Received this day at S n.ni.) I.ONDOX. July 23. The builders strike conference broke down abruptly. Friekles, the Bainlers union official, called Nicholls, the employers' President, a slippery eel. Thereupon the employers indignantly left the room as a protest against Mr Friekles' immoderate language.