MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1918, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. COPYRIGHT.] PROTEST AGAINST ALIENS. (Received This Day at 11.15 a.m.) LONDON. July 13. A maas meeting in Trafalgar Square passed a resolution demanding that all aliens, of enemy blood be immediately intorned; also the removal of such aliens enemy from Government and public offices; also protesting at the inadequacy of Governments’ proposals, cabled on the lltli The meeting refused to hear Pryco Jones, Commoner, who de dared Government proposals will go a long way to settle the matter.

ANOTHER PROTEST.

j {'lLvoivod This Mnv at 11.25. a.m.) ! LONDON", July 13. ! Tlie National Federation of discharg- ' ed and demobilised sailors and soldiers inarched in procession from Thames embankment to Hyde Park with hauliers inscribed "Intern them all, Comb them out.” The speakers demanded increased allowances for disableds, and larger pensions for dependants.

DOMINIONS AND PEACE TERMS MD'privoil This D*»v nt V/*’n n • 1 LONDON July 14. Hon. Lloyd George speaking in the House of Commons, said:—“l have no doubt- that in the course of the next few weeks, Canada, Australia, iNew Zealand, and Newfoundland will determine the conditions under which 'they are prepared to make peace. Unless I am mistaken we are pretty well in agreement. ‘‘There must he no “huggermugger” ponce. We, as a whole, have lost hundreds of thousands and have had mil- . lions maimed, and have not mado these : sacrifices in order to establish a fraud . upon earth. Anything less than a. real peace would he defrauding not this generation but the next. Wo would also be defrauding humanity.”

RIOT IN BRUSSELS

(Received This Dav at 11.15 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, July 13

lhe.ro was a serious riot in Brussels, owing to German officers requisitioning for their own use, all vegetables in Brussels market, when the peasants protested, the officers called up soldiers and five peasants were shot and thirteen wounded.

AIRMAN KILLED. PARIS, July 13tli. The .famous airmen, Lieut. Beaumont*. was killed in a collision in the air.