MISCELLANEOUS STEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1917, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS STEMS

[I'ER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] FRICK STATE EXPLANATION. HI.QKMFO'NTEIa, 'October ‘2O. A representative meeting of the natives of .Bloemfontein deckled to publish a denial of reports that natives in the Kree State were planning to ask for restoration of the own country (government characterising the rumours 'as likely to associate nal.'ve;: with the independence movements a,, a harmful misrepresentation of a lawful net of collecting evidence for ,the Lands Committee at the request! of Government. FRENCH. POLITICS, r ‘ ‘bxuter’s” TKCEGRAM.] PARTS, October' 2(1. .M. Painleve in a speech in the Chamber concluded hv declaring (Tie idea of a separate peace had never presented itself to the Government. Me believed the power of the Allies when wholly co-ordinated would be crushing. No Opposition leaders spoke. Despite the largeness of the majority the newspapers appear to expect a reconstruction of the Cabinet. PARIS, October 20. The debate in the Chamber of Deputies was upon an interpellation, moved by a Republican and supported by bile Socialists, criticising the Government’s general policy. M. Painleve replying dwelt with the, difficulties, especially of supply and .transport and tfhe strikes. He emphasised the resolution to prosecute the war until Alsace and Lorraine were restored. He reminded the Chamber that the Tit. Ron. Lloyd George for the first time had officially declared Britain’s stand besides France till Alsace and Lorraine wore restored. The Chamber voted confidence in the Government- by :lf>B to 95. SOCIALIST CONFERENCE. TAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION'] COPENHAGEN, Oct. 19. Herr Sohiodmann, nt the closing of the Wuerzburg Socialist Conference, said that social democracy had gained direct newer in the state, and the Par liainentary system that must he adopted in Germany after the war was only tin* prelude to greater things. ATISTR O-GER MA N FRIC "HON. LONDON, Oct., 20. The- Daily Chronicle’s "'Amsterdam correspondent says that he has learned from a reliable source that there is serious Austro-Germau friction. Cor many has sent a hundred thousand troops to Austria, the latter being required to find food. Austria resisted the demand, pointing out Austria’s food shortage. Germany has stopped Austrian mails for Holland since early in October. The dispute remains unsettled.

ITALIAN ' HURRICANE. TAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION’] ROHE, Oct. 19th. A hurricane on the sixteenth and seventeenth devastated Messina and its environs. Eleven persons perished. The railways wore disorganised by floods. ITALIAN SHIP ON FIRM. FORTY FIVE SURVIVORS. LAS PALMAS, Oct*. 18. Spanish ships brought forty-five survivors of the Italian vessel Caprern which, with an important cargo of explosives caught fire and sank on the coast of Morocca. won karen’s dwe i -1 jngs. LONDON, Oct. 20th. The Government is building a hundred thousand workmen’s dwellings of standard designs to meet the urgent war needs; also two hundred thousand later in anticipation of needs. The buildings are' designed oil a generous scale with substantial gardens. GREEK SENTENCES. rAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION'] ATHENS, October 19. Theoelitos ox-Archbishop of Athens has been sentenced by the Ecclesiastical court to degradation, and two year’s confinement in a. monastery for . interfering with politics, and assisting officially in the anathema of M. Venezelos. - Other relatives were sentenced to various penalties. PARIJAM ENT EXTENDED. TAUSTRALIAN it N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION*] LONDON, October 19. In the House of Commons .Air. l’onar Law states that a Bill would be introduced to further prolong the life of Parliament. It is understood that the extension will be six months. :' CANADIAN POLITICS. (•‘reutkr’s” telegram.] . .. OTTAWA. October If). Sir R'. L. Borden, premier, states that the new Government's programme includes vigorous prosecution of tlio war, immediate enforcement of the Military Service Act, extension of the franeli.se u> nil women, taxation of war profits, measures to prevent excessive profits and prohibit hoarding. Also the development of the- transportation facilities, c-ffoctive.. arrangements for Settling, soldiers, and tihe formation of a'Wat' Committee of tj’ie Cabinet,

SOCIALIST PROTEST.« ROME, October 1‘). Socialist “delegates Called 'Signor Bissolati, War Minister, a renegade and accused him of interfering with General Cadormi's plans by offering to send half a million men to France while the enemy was threatening Italy. Signor BissoJoti declared that the Socialists were causing disaffection and declared that if the country was endangered he would not hesitate to. order international enemies to be shot. Uproar followed this statement. POl,rsi l It ECOGNITTOX. LONDON, October 19. V The Entente Governments have formally recognised the Polish National Committee which has been formed to seleiule Poland’s independence with access seaward, and the raising of a Polish Army to operate in France and Russia. HONOURS FOR NURSES. LONDON, October 19. ' A Gazette 'publishes a long list of names of ladies mentioned for services in hospital, including many Australians and New Zealanders. A SAFE CONDUCT! Renter’s Telegrams,. BUENOS, AYRES, October 22. ' Britain has granted the Ambassador Liixburg safe conduct.