THE WORLD'S NEWS.

Northern Advocate, 26 April 1921, Page 4

THE WORLD'S NEWS.

WORTHLESS CHEQUES. PARIS. April 24. George G-ntine:iu, M. Clemencea.u'& r lias been sentenced to two years' imprisonment and lined 50,000 francs for issuing worthless cheques.— A. aad N.Z. ■ CHICHESTER BY-ELECTION. LONDON, April 24. Sir William Bird, Coalitionist, lias IteC'i dented unopposed for the Chic* I'.ester seat, Sussex, in .succession to Lord Edmund Talbot, who lias been appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. — A. and N.Z. WORLD-WIDE PEACE. NEW YORK, April 24. M. Vivi-ani has transmitted a message declaring that the sentiments expressed during his visit to the United States evidenced loyalty and devotion to the same ideals by France and Amcrica, which must surely continue. He said it hat France would never be an obstacle to world-wide peace.—A. and N.Z. \ STRIKE PROMOTERS. , LONDON, April -4. In a speech -following tho laum-ii of the Commonwealth steamer Mor- r. n Bjiv, Mr John Storey (Premier of N.S.W.) expressed the hope that the remaining work would not be ;d Vi'ted by strikes, in which Australkiis did not believe. An intorjcctor: "You get plenty of practice." .Mr Storey: "Yos, unfortunately, but the promoters of the strikes are chiefly from the Old World." Ho hoped Mr Percy Hunter (Director of Emigration) would impose the "blood test" on ; prospective immigrants, rejecting those affected with the strike microbe.—A. j and N.Z. ■ i

; THE LUIGIO LINK. NEW YORK, April 2-1, Four persons have identified Tiio Luigio, an Italian arrested at Pittsburg, as the driver of tlio waggon concerned in the explosion in WMI Street on September 1G last. The chief detective of the investigation bureau of the Justice Department, Mr W. J. Flynn, says he believer the arrest important in view of the fact that Duigio has admitted lie is an anarchist, and that he is not able to account for his movements about the time of the explosion. The police at Scran ton, Pennsylvania, have also discovered pieces of sashweights similar to those contained in the bomb found in the resr taurar.t in Wall Street where Luigio was employed shortly before the disaster. It is reported from S'cranton that a from ISTew York claimed to have positively identified Luigio as the man lie saw drit-i:i£ a waggon in Wall five minutes before the explo-> -ion.—A. and N.Z.