MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1918, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[rr.U PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.: j AFTER WAR PROBLEMS, j LONDON, November 3. ! Sir Auckland Geddes, in a speech a , a luncheon of the Federation of Bri tish Industries, said the most urgeiii problem after the war would be tin , national health. Nothing was more • appalling than the results of the military service medical exams. Hundreds of thousands of men of military age were to he found dying from prevent, aide inibdrculosfs. He was not surj prised at the industrial unrest. He onI ly wondered that there had not been a : revolution years ago. We had take,. ' more interest in prize pigs than in j British manhood. I Mr Addison said the Government’s first- business after the war must he the re-establishment and protection of basic industries and the liberation of raw materials. Industry must be freed at the earliest possible moment. j AEROPLANE CONTRACTS. NEW YORK, Nov. 3. At the Artc-raft Inquiry, the commissioner charged the chief blame against the Signal Corps, whose officers he held to he incompetent. Some ecntractors got orders to the exclusion of all others. ALLIED SHIPBUILDING, ROME, November 3. The “Agcnzia Nazionnle” says. The British Government lias agreed to assist the Italian shipbuilding industry by furnishing machinery and steel. Italian shipowners will assist- to restore the British merchant fleot. SWISS DISCOVERY. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) BERNE. November 4. Following a protest by the Swiss I'ederal Council, Germany recalled the Consul-General and Vice-Consul at Zurich. in consequence of the discovery at the Consulate of pamphlets, arms, bombs, and munitions, destined to stir a revolution and carry out destruction in Italy. An employee of the Consulate was sentenced in default 2) years imprisonment in connection with the plot at Berne. “FREE LOVE” BUREAU. LONDON November 4., The Soviets official organ “Izvesta” has published a decree of Vladimir Bolsheviks establishing a bureau of “free love,” whereat girls over eighteen are obliged to register. A certain number of girls and men are allowed to select mates, whose consent is unnecessary, their children to lie State property. A NEW INVENTION. ROME November 4. The destruction of tlie Battleship \ i—rilms Uniris was due to a new boat invented bv Commander Rosetti, the leader of the raid. AT CONSTANTINGPLE. (Deceived this day at 10 15 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 4. The United Press Paris correspondent says the ‘Petit Journal” prints an unconfirmed riopoTt from Athens that the Allies have arrived at Constantinople, and landed on Princes Island, near the city.