BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18768, 23 January 1923, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright PARES, January 20. The largest gun ever cast in 1< ranee has been completed at the Rueil Arsenal, it is 70ft long and weighs, with its carriage, 230 tons. It will ho used for coastal defence, and is expected to hurl a 420-kilo-gramrne shell over 90 kilometers. THE HAGUE, January 21. The first example in history of sovereign States arraigning a sovereign State before tho International Court has occurred in connection with an application filed by Britain, France, Italy, and Japan against Germany concerning the latter’s refusal to permit a British vessel free access to the Kiel Uanal in 192*, in accordance with the Peace Treaty.—Reuter. LONDON, January 20. Professors Coster and M. G. Hevosy, of Copenhagen, have discovered a new element, which they have named hafnium, bv means of an X-rays spectrum analysis of ore containing zirconium. The new clement has not yet, been isolated. LONDON. January 21. Mr Ramsay MacDonald, speaking at Glasgow, oaidHhat in view of the great inconvenience of the rent muddle, he would suggest an agreement between the owners and the tenants, to be followed by retrospective legislation. He would propose the reference of the whole of the Ruhr trouble to the League of Nations or to The Hague Tribunal. ATHENS, January 21. Tire Revolutionary Committee has iesoed a decree calling in the gold. A Wady £4,000,000 has boon exchanged for banknotes. — A. and N.Z. Cable. CANTON. January 2C. Wei Pong-pine has been chosen commander of the Cantonese army until tho arrival of Dr Sun Ynt-sen. Reports from Shanghai state that the Ynn-nan and Kiaug-si troops, which invaded tile town, are disarming Dr Sun Yat-een’s punitive arinv. They arc also appointing the heads of the Canton Government departments.—Renter.