BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 24 July 1923, Page 6

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

I’EB CHESS ASSOCIATION —COI’YBIOHT PARIS, July 23. The dope traffic trial resulted in all the doctors and chemists being found guilty of delivering practically unlimited quantities of morphine anu other drugs. The Court declined to accept the defence that doctors and chemists acted with a view of enabling the victims of the drug habit to liberate themselves from the vices. Dr. Raoul Regnier was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment; two other doctors to six months each, two to three months each, and three others, including a woman doctor were fined. One chemist was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, another to four months. Thirty-nine drug takers were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from three to ten mouths, and fined 1000 to 3000 francs. DELHI, July 22. Investigation of the recent earthquake at Tubatihaidra shows that 900 were killed. The Government Experimental Station, at Eskmeals, in Cumberland, carried out a remarkable series of experiments designed to test the explosiveness of coal dust, in the course of research dealing with the safety of mines.

The conditions approximated an actual coal mine explosion, in which hundreds of lives were lost. A gallery 750 feet long was strewn with coal dust. Fire ignited the gas, a flash of flame, like lightning, rushed through the gallery, followed by a cloud of deadly coal gas. Pit props and other colliery equipment were hurled a great distance. Later the mine was cleared by special fans. The experiment showed tho benefit of mixing stone dust with coal dust to reduce the strength of the explosion. PARIS, July 22. The police raided the Parisian Chinatown adjoining the Care de Lyon, where British travellers arriving from the East have had disagreeable experiences. The police arrested thirty Chinese men, nine Chinese girls, and twentynine other Asiatics, several Italians, Poles and Belgians. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 22. The Angora Minister of Religious Affairs, has published a decree permitting the faithful to wear gold teeth. The Mahommedan I'aitl forbids carrying any luxurious ornaments, except a silver ring, the value of which must not exceed the price of a winding sheet. The prices of these two articles were practically identical in Mahoutmed's time. PARIS, July 22. Twenty-eight thousand gymnasts from all parts of Europe art participating in the great gymnastic festival hero. All filed before the Unknown Warrior’s grave in the Arc De Triomphe. They then gave a display in the Champs de Mais. BERLIN, July 22. Messages from Breslau state ‘or several hours the Silesian capital -,va.s in the bands of the mob, which looted the cafes and shops. The police were ordered to delay the use of arms as long as possible, but finally the streets were cleared with carbines and sabres, about 150 people being injured in various degrees. Over a thousand arrests were made though many were soon released. The Socialistic Federation of Trade Unions offered to help the police restore order and their assistance was accepted. The cause of the riots was the rise in prices which have been so rapid recently that the new scale of payment provides for a 270 per cent, increase on wages, prevailing in June. ' SYDNEY, Monday. Th<» Maitland miners rejected the coal agreement, but Cessnook and Kurri both accepted.