MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1917, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

ELECTION RESULTS. OTTAWA, Dec. 21st. Mr. ißoimis.sb, analysing the results of the elections, said it was clear that I Canada declared uneqivoeally her Im- | perialisin after the war. However, the j.Libera Is ought to see the position i wherein they had allowed themselves to be led. The two principal after-war problems would lie the readjustment of Canada’s economic equilbrium and the readjustment of Canada’s relations with the rest of tho Empire. Froneh-Canadians must make a decision beewen Nationalism and Imperialism. If the Unionist Party was broken up in tltis connection, ay it would be what position would tho "Liberals of the future find themselves in?

CANADA GOING DRY. OTTAWA, Dec. 21st. The Government has decided to prohibit. the importation of liquor and later to suppress the manufacture domestically of liquor, tho ultimate object being the enforcing of prohibition throughout the Dominion. Seven-eighths of the country is already under Provincial Prohibition Laws. THE HERO OF LIEGE. BERNE, Dec. 21. General Leman, The 'defender of Liege, who was captured by the Germans in August, 1914, has been released and has arrived in Switzerland, where he has been interned.

ATTACK IN THE COMMONS. ON SIR DOUGLAS HAIG. r AUSTRALIAN* Sr N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION &■ REUTER.] LONDON, Dec. 21. In the House, of Commons on Wednesday, Mr Wood declared that the House had the right to consider three points in reference to Field-Marshai Sir Douglas FTaig. The first would Go that ho was over optimistic, and the second that as a cavalry officer he believed it possible to use cavalry In breaking through, and the third, when a large nrmv had not fulfilled expectations, the best way to restore the morale was to change its head. Mr .T. J. Macpherson promised to' bring the points to the attention of their best authorities.

TAX HAMILTON’S COMPLAINTS. STUPID CENSORSHIP. [LONDON TIMES SERVICE—COPYRIGHT] LONDON December 21. General Sir lan Hamilton, prefacing a volume of the Dardanelles despatches, complains that his cables were altered and garbled at Home, and turned hv miserable people, somewhere into horrible bureaucratic clinches, such as “Tho situation remains unchanged, and similar God damned phrases.” 1 It is puerile to say that they give information to the enemy. It matters nothing to the Turks if the Seventh Royal Scots or the Third Warwicks take trenches.

ANOTHER. AIR RAID. ONE RAIDER DOWNED. LONDON, Dec. 23. Official.—An air raid was attempted at six in the evening on the Kentish coast. One raider was forced to descend near the coast, and the crew of three captured alive. A second attack developed at 9.30. A. few bombs were drooped on the Thames," bnt there were no casualties or damage.

' GERMAN METHODS. OF PASSING CORRESPONDENCE (Received This Dnv at 10,15. a.m.) WASHINGTON, Doc. 23. Officials have discovered a most exten sive system whereby letters were written in invisible ink, in code, ana carried by neutral sailors to Scandinavia and thence to Germany. It i s snspecte that the codes were used -in twenty per cent, of the letters going to Scandinavia'. Many were concealed in clothing. Arrests are expected.

A BRITISH INVENTION. ANTI-SUBMARINE GUN. (Received This Dav at 10.15. ■* m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 23rd. It is reported here that- the British are using a gun capable oi hurling “depth” bombs, a mile. The bombs are effective if they strike within fifty yards of a periscope, because the explosion produces a tremendous concwss^rn.