MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1919, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

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GER MA X PR ESI DEXCY. BERLIN Aug. 27

The Peoples’s Party have nominated Marshal Ilindcnburg for the forthcoming German Presidential election.

GERMAN PRISONERS. LONDON, Aug. 8

Probably steps will now be taken to seem- an early repatriation of Britain’s three, hundred thousand German prisoners, who are now all in i< ranee. They are costing ninety thousand sterling a day to feed.

RETRENCHMENT in ENGLAND LONDON, August 28.

Mr Lloyd George’s retrenchment ultimatum has caused consternation at Whitehall. There aro wholesale dismissals. The so-called ‘Limpets’ are being dismissed from tbe TV or Office and tlie Admiralty.

Many more officials will receive notice on September Ist.

•EVILS OF WAR CABINET SYSTEM LONDON, August 27.

Mr Llovd George in a letter to a member of tbe House of Commons says lie vigorously protests against tbe charges of extravagant finance. He admits faulty administration is involving a loss of the Government’s prestige. It cannot be too strongly emnliasised, he says, that the .primary duty of controlling Departmental ex-

penditure rests with the Minister, hut not with the Treasury. The only way of ensuring the Ministers’ co-operation with the Treasury control lies in ho rc-eslnblishmenli' of collective responsibility, which the abolition of the former Cabinet Governments seem to have entirclv destroyed.

WASTE CLEARLY PROVED. LONDON, August 27

The newspapers continue an antiwaste campaign. They have unenrthcrcd a new example in the ease of Poole Harbour .when against expert advice a quarter of a million was expended in 1918 in order to provide an alternative port in addition to that existing, to deal with more Channel traffic. It subsequently was discovered, however, that shipping was unable to cross the bar of the new harbour during gales. Then work was abandoned on the harbour and it was not used at all.

It is also pointed out that scores of good railway engines and hundreds of waggons arc idle at Leeds depot. Vast quantities of army and air force stores are simply rusting away in a derelict store at Didcot.

This depot, which covers eight square miles, contains thousands of idle ambulance waggons, water carts, gun carriages and limbers. They are axle deep in mud.

Millions of wash leather gloves arc shown to have been tied in bundles and used as footballs.

TALLOW SALES HELD UP. LONDON, August 27. The tallow sales were held up owing o the poor demand.

A GAME CLAIM. PARIS, August, 28. In order to re-stock the woods in he occupied regions, the Allied Comnission of War Damages lias decided to make big claims from Germany and Austria. Each is to supply 12-jO deer, •-(!()() roe-deer, 8011.001) hares 8.000,000 ■ouples •of partridges and 1,000,000 lheasants.

ITALIAN SOLDIERS AT KILTIE ROME, Aug. 27. There were remarkable scenes at •'iume, occasioned by the departure ol lie Italian Grenadiers, who have oeeu)icd Finnic since the armistice. Tbe vomcn drew a large tricolour across the street and then knelt and implored the soldiers to remain.

The demonstration deeply affected tbe ollicers and men, who were compelled to force their way through the crowd. They shouted “Wo shall return whenever we are needed.”

ALIENS TO BE DEPORTED,

LONDON, Aug. 2-7

Recently the police raided a gambling resort in the East End of London. Some I.WAV. literature was seized. A Magistrate to-day convicted two Russians and one Roumanian .Jew over the literature and recommended that lie be deported. lie declared the literature was not political, but revolutionary suilf of a most dangerous sort. The people said that the three accused associated with the worst of criminals. They look an active part in lAY.W. propaganda and regularly addressed revolutionary meetings.

A SI HP’S TROUBLE'. DURBAN, August 27. The “Advertiser” states the trouble or the Bahia Costello was caused by alleged poor food, inadequate accommodation for women and children. The passengers hooted t.hc officers and the Captain decided to return.

cholera outbreak. PEKIN, August 28. The cholera epidemic at Shanghai is now spreading north through China. It is reported that there are 180 deaths daily in the city of Mukden, and a thousand deaths a day at Harbin. ' The use of .saline infusions is proving highly efficacious', and is reducing the mortality.