MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1917, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[PBlt I’iIKSS ASSOCIATION. —COI’YUIGIIT.] A DENIAL. LONDON, Dec. I. It is officially denied that Air. Addison Ims accepted the post of Minister of Public Health. He is merely assisting i# negotiations, in order to arrive at an agreement on a scheme for the establishment of a' Ministry. AM II ASS A DOR’S ATTITUDE. PAR IS, Dee. 4. M. Maklatoff. Russian Ambassador at Paris replying to statements said lie was recalled because he had participated in the Allied Conference, but states he did not attend the Conference. He could not recognise the present usurpers, therefore did not present his letters of credit. The entire Embassy protested against the peace proposals find must light against the peace proposals must fight against the German propaganda . f THE REFERENDUM. SYDNEY, Dee. sth.' The stringency of the referendum regulations have largely opt out pamphlet and leaflet appeals. Roth sides, part'iculrlv the “Antics,” are relying more on platform work. The deluge of eloquence lifts reached such a pitch that newspaper correspondents seriously suggest' that all references from the platform and pulpit bp suppressed in order that voters may go to the ballot calmly and undisturbed, and be spared the pain, this distressing discussion is causing. , Mr. J. it. f'jqrksp|i, as a visitor from Ne\v Zealand said Mr. Hughes bad the hearty sympathy of everyone in New Zealand and lie lipped the people would vote as Air. Hughes wished.

MAUDE A CHOLERA VICTIM. (Reuter’s Telegram.) LONDON, Dee. 4. lii the Commons, Air. MaePherson expressed his regret at confirming that General Maude had died from cholera-, but was glad to say the pases of cholera in Mesopotamia werp few. FLOODS IN HOLLAND. AMSTERDAM, December 4. There are severe floods iii Holland, and part of Rotterdam is submerged Over a hundred farms in the Golderlaiid were washed away, and many trawlers are missing. LOST FOOD SHIP., fAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] LONDON December 4. Lord Lyttelton said the food ship sunk while proceeding from one point to another was the La Blanca. An effort is being made to enable cargoes of foodstuffs to be discharged at the first port of call. Arrangements for unloading at the port in question, excluding cold storage, are nearly completed.

DISTRIBUTION OF BUTTER. LONDON December 4. The Food Controller is distributing o n the 6th. a quantity of butter "wherefore the trade applied for December. This niake s another distribution in a fortnight, lienee it is understood thru present-distribution consists principally of Australian commandeered in April.

DUTCH CHEESE EXPORTATION. LONDON December 4. A semi-official messago from Hague states that Holland ha s resumed the exportation of cheese. THE ALLIED CONFERENCE. ~PARIS, Dec. 4th. M. Piohon announces the Allied Conference had happy results, particularly assuring unity of action, economically, and militarily. The decisions guarantee the Allies every satisfaction, and the creation of a supreme inter-Allied Naval Committee. It was decided that while the unity of the military action had been certainly realised by the Allied General Staff, which was working according to programme and diplomatically also, a' complete agreement was reached on all matters necessary to ensure victory. . THE ARABIAN POSITION. LONDON Decerpber 4. Lord Corson said we are holding an , are of eleven miles from Aden. As far as is k??own the Turks in the vicinity have no communication with Turkey, and 'have. received no supplies or reinforcements. A PEACE V|EW. , . ZURICH December •}. Thc,,“Neuc Freio Pres.se’’ publishes Count Andrassy’s peace view, lit opposes the restoration of the status quo ante, and denies Serbia’s right to her original status. Austria must improve her frontiers. The, war, lie says, lias made pre-war conditions unsatisfactory. THE POST WAR. TRADE. Received, this day at 8.45 a.m. LONDON, December b. The “Daily Chronicle” states Lord Balfour of Burleigh’s Post-war Trade Committee lias completed its reports, and :reeommend s a general tariff of ton per cent, ad valorem on all imports. reducible by negotiation with those countries giving British goods reciprocal treatemnt. Imports from the Dominions and India to be admitted free-.

REACHING JHE CLIMAX. STRUGGLE FOR 'EXISTENCE. (United Service Telegrams.) Received, this day fit 8 45 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 5. The “Times” says the war has reached a stage, when no .man or woman is justified in remaining in an occupation not essential to the war. Unless t-lie whole adult population is thrown into the struggle for national existence, those who died for the Empire will have died vainly. Never has the world’s salvation more depended on_tlie fortitude, resolution and sacrifices of Britain and the Overseas Dominions. RAISING OF MILITARY AGE. URGED BY DAILY MAIL. • Received, flu’s day at 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, Dee. 5. The “Daily Mail” urges the immediate raising of the military age and the substitution of elders in essential trades, and the widespread abolition of exemption. AN EARL DEAD. Received, this day at 8.45 a.m. LONDON December 5. Obituary—-The Earl of Portsmouth. His successor is John Wallop formerly a resident of Tasmania.