MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1917, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

PURCHASE OF OFFICES. LONDON, July 31. The Peninsula and Oriental Company purchased for £60,200 the HnmburgAtnerika Company’s Offices in Cockspur Street. SOCIALIST CONFERENCE. PARIS, Aug 1. The conference of French, English and Russian .Socialists including MrHenderson and Ramsay Me Donald, passed a resolution approving of the acceptance of tho invitation °f the So - diors’ and -Workmens’ Council and Dutch and Scandinavian delegation to attend the international Socialist Conference at Stockholm on 9tn. September whereto trade unions would lie unrepresented. They were also mvi ed to the Allies Socialist Conference o n London fixed for 9th. August. KAISER VISITING. COPENH9GEN, Aug. 1. The Kaiser is “visiting the Ruga “rout-. SALVAGE AWARD. LONDON, July 31 The Admiralty Court has awarded th© news of several warships £12,280 for airing silver and bullion valued at £450,000 from the Poona which was nined in December. GERMAN" STATEMENT DENIED. LONDON, July 31 The Admiralty denies the German iffici-al statement that hospital, ships are icing misused in Mesopotamia . TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. OTL TANK BLOWN UP. (Received This Day at 9.50. a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug 1An oil tank aboard a submarine chaser >low up at' Byaonne, in New Jersey. There was a terrific explosion, and ,1,0 crew were hurled into he water. Four were severely injured. The cause is unexplained. A GENER AL APPOINTED. (Received This Dav at 10.15. > m.) LONDON, Aug 1. The Gazette announces that Lieut..' Seneral Scallon has been appointed Gon>ral, vice General Dixpn \:(>AL STRIKES. SETTLED. (Received This Dav at 10.15. a-’n.) LONDON, Aug 1The Ebbwvalo and Tredegar strikes lave been settled. ■ A FRENCH DENIAL. * i OF GERMAN STATEMENT. (Received This Dav at 10.15. a.m.) PARIS, Aug. 1. Al. Ribot iii the Chamber, denied Dr. Hichaolis’s allegation of a secret Franco Russian Treaty. He admitted that; the Czar had assur'd 31. Douiuerguo that in tho event of yar, Russia would.- support Frailctv’s ■laim to Alsace Lorraine, but,,3f. llihot idaed ‘we'never thought of amiexing my territories exoeiii. Chose belonging u France, or doing what Bismarck lid.” •: ' s . Mr. Ribot added that. Dr. Michaelis vas endeavouring to lift tlio terrible uad of responsibility weighing on the xaiser’s shoulders. RELATIONS-WITH JAPAN. (Received, This Dav at 8.50. a.m.) NEW YORK, August 1. , The New York Tribune’s Washington orrespcmdent and other paper* quote . in articlo by Woenda a Japanese Pariamentarian in the Magazine Tikao rherein he says the war has brought relations With Japan and Australia nto a friendlier connection but. it is ioubtful whether it will be cordially naintained after the war. Prior t° the war Australia regarded he Japanese as. destroyers of White Australia which was a ridiculous mis/inception. , Australia made a condition with the British Adimiralty for leaving a patrol n tho Pacific to the Japanese- It apjears probable that Australia’s and Tie Japanese policy will seriously affect ;Ik> Anglo Japanese Alliance when the ■ights of the colonies are being framed md British diplomacy is. fuller estabished. 1 x BRITAIN’S ATTITUDE. WOULD NEVER BEND (Received This tinv at 11.25. a.m.) PARIS, August 1. Speaking at the. Parliamentary,Committees welcome to the Socialist dele gaes Mr. John Henderson said Britain would never ,deal with a Government not' expressing the slightest regret at its crimes. Britain would hover bend, whatever the duration of the war. A peace ‘‘in status quo” meant a certain war for the next egneration. To make peace now would he a .veritable crime. Only a victory would guarantee peace. ■ Goldenberg a Russian delegate, said the Russians were grievously affected by the weakness of their front, but ho protested against any idea that Russia would seek a separate peace. A FRENCH AIRVAN. ** HIS 50th VICTORY. (Received This Dnv at 19.25. p.m.) LONDON, Aug 1. v Tho airman Guyraeyer lias won hii 50th air victory.