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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17179, 24 October 1923, Page 11

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SYDNEY, October 23. The “ Medical Journal ” has withdrawn its proposed appeal against the verdict of £IOOO awarded Dr Thompson as damages for libel. , LONDON October 23. Cabinet discussed arrangements for November 11. and the "Daily Telegraph :y is able to state that a brief religious service will be held at the Cenotaph in deference to the wishes of the public. LODON, October 22. Mr Massey was unable to attend the Trafalgar Day dinner, but sent a message : ‘‘May the memory' of England’s most illustrious sailor prove an inspiration to future generations. The supreme need of the Empire is an adequate system of naval defence." PARIS, October 23. j Thieves effected an entry to the Salon ' de Mercure, at the Palace of Versailles • by climbing a lightning conductor. They stole two Gobelin tapestries of Louis XIV. period, valued at one million francs. The tapestries measured sixteen feet by twenty feet, and weighed 144!bs. The thieves lowered them into a motor-car waiting in the courtyard. LONDON, October 22. Dr Howse, one of the Australian delegates to the Geneva Conference, states that he has inspected Dr Spahlinger’s laboratories. He considers that Australia would not bo justified in spending money on the sera at the present stage of the investigations. Dr Spahlinger is unable.to supply any complete sera under eighteen months. MELBOURNE, October 23. A man named George Taylor, at • whose house Murray was arrested, has been arrested on two charges, of being j an accessory before and after the fact respectively, in the Hawthorn murder case. Murray was arrested on a charge of shooting and robbing W. Berriman. manager of the Hawthorn branch of the Commerical Bank of Australia. Berriman has since succumbed to his wounds and the charge against Mur- i rav is now one of murder. SYDNEY. October 23. j The Nationalist Conference passed a | resolution in favour of compelling all j governments to provide a sinking fund j for all loans,, past or fixture. Speaking at a luncheon to the dele- j gates. Sir George Fuller said that the ; criticism of his Government’s immigra- I tion policy was based on entirely mis- ! taken ideas and false premises. What j appeared to be the weakness of the scheme was its boldness and comprehensiveness, which had caused timid people to be unnecessarily apprehenNEW YORK, October 22. A quantity of bones were found in an old kettle in the basement of a mansion owned by Edward Drew Clark, and the Los Angeles police suspect that the bones arc those of George Schick, a wealthy broker, who disappeared in August. Clark, his wife, and Shick's wife, in September, obtained -power of attorney in connection with Schick’s property. A charge of forgery has since been preferred against them. Experts .state that indications are that the body from which the bone 3 came was dismembered and boiled down. LONDON, October 23. The Berlin correspondent of the <l Daily Telegraph ” says that although the rentenmark will not be issued until the middle of November, the people expect that a flood of new currencies will sweep away paper marks, so those who have more than they need for daily wants are converting the rest into something of a lasting value at any , cost. Hence the extraordinary boom on the stock market and the rise in the price of food and other commodities. It was almost impossible to get bread in Berlin on Monday. Bakers refused to supply anyone unless they put down their names in the morning and paid in advance. The makers asked five milliards of marks a loaf. LONDON, October 23. The Exchange Agency’s Vienna corlespondent says that the new Austrian Assembly will probably be composed of the following:— Christian Socialists . . S2 German Nationalists . . 15 Socialists . . .67 The Chancellor, Dr Seipel. will have a safe working maiority of 98 over 67. The “ Morning Post. ” says that Dr Seipel’s Christian Socialist Party continues to be a very strong political factor. The Chancellor has a majority strong enough to secure stability for the present policy of economic reconstruction. The Democratic Party, which Count Czernin represented, has been annihilated, and the Communist list is also so small that it is evident Bolshevism lias no real role in. Austria.