MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1919, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

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' BIG FRENCH STRIKE. ! PARIS, Sep. 13. . The municipal workers’ strike is genll” oral. It has assumed serious proportions. Many funerals have been post--16 poned. Numerous communes are withr- 1 out water. i-t ts RAIDERS PROCLAMATION. i (Received Day at 8.45 a.m.) to ; " PARIS, September loth, i- | Dannunzio has proclaimed the union ie of Fiume with Italy, y ; lHon. Lloyd 'George and M. Tirroni e met at the Supreme Council. It is o understood- that the Fiume situation k was discussed. [- .

I- . r j JAPAN’S DUTY. e ! (Received This Day at, 8.45 a.m.) - | NEW YORK, Sept. 15. - 1 Tire “Times” Tokio correspondent states that Marquis Saionji urges Japan to understand her responsibility in aiding and promoting the League of ' Nations which will insure the world i against the menace of war if effectively ; administered. It is Japan’s duty to } keep and consolidate a lasting peace, i based on the principles of right and justice.

PLEA TO SENATE. (Received This- Pav at !>.15 a.m.i NEW YORK, Sept. 15. The ‘Times” Washington correspondent states that 250 leading Americans have addressed a plea to the Senate - urging the ratification of the Peace Treaty unamended, and without delay. Amongst those who signed the plea are ; Samuel Gompers, Taft, and' Jacob Schieff.

A BIG BLAZE. ‘Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) NEW YORK, S«pt. 15. A fire at a naptha plant at Long Island caused more than five million dollars damage and 50 firemen were injured, some seriously. Tlhe conflagration lasted: forty-eight hours. AUSTRALIAN PRISONERS. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) ■LONDON, September 13. The amnesty granted to Australian prisoner soldiers is restricted to minor military offences.. Sentences for civil offences will be completed in Australia. TAKEN TO AN ASYLUM. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) PARIS, September 15. M. Caillaux has been transferred to x private asylum. STRIKE RESULTS. (Received This Dav at 9.60. a.m.) PARIS, September 15. The strike at Marseilles is filling she port with shipping. Nearly ten housand passengers are held up overcrowding the hotels and cafes.

CANADA’S GOVERNOR-GENERAL. (Received this dav at 9.20 a.m.) LONDON September 14. The “National News” states that Earl Athlone is to succeed the Duke ot Devonshire as Governor-General of Canada in 1920. WAY TO PAY THE DEBT. (Received This Dav at 9.30. a.m. i LONDON Sept 14.

•Lord Rothermere in an article in the “Sunday Pictorial” suggests the paying off of some of Britain’s debt to United States by selling some of the West Indian islands.

RAIDERS’ SUCCESS.. (Reuter’s Telegram.) (Received This Day at noon.) LONDON, Sept. 15. Advices from Fiume state numbers of inhabitants joined the raiders, also some Italian sailors, who swam ashore. The raiders pulled down the I rancoB/ritish flags. Franco-British troops were confined to their barracks.

WIN FOR DOCKERS. (Received TbL Dav at noonA PARIS, Sept. 15. The strike at Marseilles has ended in a victory for the dockers, whoso demands were granted. PROFITEERING, ißeceived this day at-1.30 p.ro.) ‘ LONDON, Sept. 15. Mr A. McCurdy, Chairman of ; the Committee Trusts, addressing the 1 Conference at Northampton to mark the commencement of operations under . the Profiteering Act, drew attention ! the world wide existence of profiteer- > irig. He said the Food Ministry in--1 tended to begin investigations at the top, concurrently with proceeding agaipst the small man, because in cases of high prices, there might he a i power organisation of which the public knew nothing. McCurdy said the first object in administrating the Act would be to protect the public, but the Mini istry would not hesitate to utilise the criminal courts.

brotherhood congress. (Received This Day at 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, September 15. The International Brotherhood Congress at which delegates of twenty countries were present lias opened in the City Temple. Tho Bishop of London, by a special sermon in St Paul’s had given it a great send off. He eulogised the League of Nations as the greatest Christian ideal ever put forward and fervently hoped the union of churches would be realised. I Dr Clifford (president) in his inaugural address, described the Congress as achieving the Union of east and west as an indestructible basis of fraternity. Ho added that the Brotherhood was marching and nothing vould stop it The League of Nations was the one great hope of the world.

ITALIAN AIR FLIGHT. (Received this day at 11.2.5 a.m.) PARIS, September 15. An Italian aerobus with twenty-fou passengers, landed at Lille, and late resumed its journey to Amsterdam. This Day.—Sailed at U p. m,. Ngahere for Greymouth.