MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1919, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Co'pyrigb l)

RIOTS AT ALEXANDRIA. CAIRO, Nov. 3,

-Serious riots occurred in Alexandria during the week end. An Army ambulance, driven by an Egyption driver dashed into a workers’ procession and killed one and injured several. The demonstrators thereupon looted and sacked the shops in the vicinity. The trouble was quelled without military intervention.

TELE WARSHIP EXPLOSION. TOKIO, Nov. 3. Hinga is the name the warship whereon the explosion occurred.

IMPORTS FROM GERMANY. LONDON, Nov. 4

In the House of Commons Sir E. Gcddes stated that £190,000 worth, of goods had been imported to -Britain from Germany and Austria during October. The imports comprised chiefly a cheaper class of goods.

THE GOEBEN . LONDON, Nov. 3

Sir W. Long announced in the Commons that Turkey had surrendered the warship Goeben, which had been partially repaired, and a British skeleton crew were aboard to prevent scuttling.

SHANTUNG SECTION. WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. The IJ.S. Senate voted against a motion by Senator Lodge to strike out the Shantung section of the Peace Treaty by 41 to 26.

CESSION OF TERRITORY. NEW YORK, Nov. 4

'Chile has ceded the territory of At Rato Bolivia ,giving the latter country access to the Pacific Coast. The territory contains large nitrate supplies. A further message states the Bolivian Lego, tion discredits the report of a cession. *

A POLITICIAN’S STATEMENT, CAPETOWN, November 3.

The Union Minister of Industries, at the opening of a National Conference of Employees and Employers at Pretoria, declared that the country was getting further and further involved in a “vicious circle” which is resulting in the high prices and an increased cost of living. It was futile to attempt to stop this by fixing prices or wages. The real remedy, in his view, Vas efficient production. The State could not be a passive onlooker in the squabbles of capital and labour. The reduction of working hours he asserted could not be allowed to travel beyond the point of profitable production.

AID TO MOTHERS

NEW YORK, November 4

The International Conference of Working Women endorsed a proposal for financial assistance to mothers to enable an exemption from work for a period of six weeks before and after child-birth.

GERMAN DELEGATES. LONDON, Nov. 4

Three Anstro-Gennans Professors, ißrentaso, Guttmnn, and Oppenheimer, have arrived to attend a “Fight, the Famine Conference.” It is opening in private to-morrow. Much secrecy :s maintained about the movements of the enemy delegates, who refuse to he interviewed, though it is stated that they have brought a mass of confidential information regarding the economic conditions of Austro-Germany .

A DENIAL. LONDON, Nov. 4. . The U.S. Secretary of the Navy. H-n J. Daniels, denies the Department is responsible for Admiral Sims’ allegations in a magazine allele against ginrt FeiUers. He stages ne must thoi— j fore refuse the demands made that the Navy Department should discipline him for the statements mndi He says that Admiral Sims was accorded permission to write a book, hut the' Navy Department could not be held responsible for his statements therein.

SPECULATION BOOM EXTENDS

LONDON, Nov. 3

Manchester messages report a wave of speculation in Lancashire, cotton industry syndicates buying companies, whose shares soon reached a premium. Six figure fortunes are said to have been made, while hundreds leape en thousand from the boom .

cape diamond trust. CAPETOWN, Nov. 4. The reported combination of the '-on tli-West African diamond mines, under the auspices of the Ang o- n riean Corporation, controded by Mt -iorpont Morgan, is now eonlumm. Tim interests of the Dieutschc Kolon idle Gesscbellesbaft are. also Proven, ' ’ V in the pool. A new company, nitl •n, millions capital, will be n 0" ’ tho cd at Capetown, under the title of the Consolidated Diamond Mines °f > West Africa. The result v' ll the control will be changed ftom Hn to South Africa.'

FARMERS CO-OP. MOVE. LONDON, Nov. 3British farmers are ing ft nd Imperial Fanners’ in have arranged for dire The maize with Rbot esi ‘ to co-opcr-Britisb farmers I*°P°“ % QV/ Ze alaud ate with Australian ■ ; n „ ' n ags farmed in 'the matter of seem L at Bombay and supplying theT to farmers.

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