MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1919, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

{J3y Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) financial boom. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) ’LONDON, November 3. The “Daily Express” says the financial boom in the city grows daily. Such wave of speculation is unknown for many years. New issues that are advertised to-day total fourteen millions, mostly new capital required for new undertakings. There is no difficulty in getting money. Apparently the war j made and the war saved wealth, is find- j ing an outlet. Brokers are having an extremely prosperous time.

THE TRAIN DISASTER. (Received this day at 10.10 a.m.) ' COPENHAGEN November 3. A child falling from a train caused the railway disaster. It occurred in the early morning. The train was backed to enable a; search to be made and it collided with the express coming on at full speed, owing to an omission to alter the signals. The trains telescoped and rolled down an embankment, the boilers burst and many scores were injured.

POULET’S JOURNEY. (Received This Day at 11.20. a.m.) PARIS, November 4. A belated message announces the arrival of Poulet at Constantinople. , GENERAL PAIRS MISSION. (Received This Day at 11.20. a.m.) LONDON, November 3. General Pau’s mission report acknowledges the cordiality of the New Zealand reception and hospitality. The war had enabled New Zealanders and Frenchman to know and admire each other. The development of commercial relations which was mutually desired, would be the most practical method of establishng a permanent friendship. Commerce follows the flag, but it should be equally true that commerce follows the banner of in-ter-Allied victory. New Zealand may readily become an exporter of products to France and likewise a buyer of French manufactures. Direct shipping facilities, -the necessity of which the Germans fully realised, are still difficult but the Mission recommends the appontment of a commercial representative in New Zealand to encourage,trade to theer mutual advantage.

OFFICER’S ESCAPE. (Received this day at 12.25 p.in) LONDON November 3. It was related at the Prize Court that eight British officers prisoners at Boggad, in Turkey in 1918, escaped and reached the coast in an emaciated condition, after untold privations and hair fbreadh escapes including encounters with brigands.. They swam to tlie Turkish .tug, Herthn, lying in the harbour and noiselessly raised the anchor and rowed off under the nose of a sentry. They started the engines and made for Cyprus, using compass and sun. The Court congratulated tho officers and declared the prize theirs.

THE TANK INVENTION. (Received 'This Day at. 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 4. • The “Daily News” asks wlio has the better right than Demole to the tank re ward, and adds that even if only the plans had been prepared, the Demole tank might have ended the yyar in the Spring qf 1917. *' • MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. (Received This Oa\ at 8.45 a.m.) LONDON,, Nov. 4. The final results of twenty-eight London Boroughs sliow Reformers control 11 Councils, Labour 14, Progressives 1. Reformers won 596 seats, Labour 557, Progressive*) 130, others 39, PARIS SHORT OF COAL. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) PARIS, Nov. 4. Paris is suffering from a terrible shortage of coal. Many schools are without fires. People are attempting to heat shops and institutions with wood and oil. The railway strike in England accentuated the -difficulty and now the American strike prolongs tho shortage.

INDIAN PROPOSAL. (Received This Day. at 9.25 a.m.) DELHI, November 3. The Viceroy in opening the Conference of ruling Princes and Chiefs > announced that it was Government’s intention to create a permanent Chamber of Princes. It would be a consulting, not an executive b°dy> and attendance and voting woiild he voluntary. ' Resolutions passed must inevitably'exercise'ipfluepce in the relation of Government ’ with Durbars not participating' in the deliberations of the chamber which should not discuss internal affairs of any State or the actons of individual rulers.

ALIEN LEGISLATION. (Received'this day at 9 25 a.m.) LONDON, November 4. During the Committee stage on the Aliens Bill in the House of Commons, the Government with Mr Havelock Wilson’s approval, modified the clause totally debarring alien masters, mates and chief engineers from British vessels trading within the Empire. Sii Auckland Geddes explained that unexpected difficulties were dscovered, which might prevent British sailors obtaining employment at foreign port.s > if British legislation was over drastic. Government agreed to the deletion of the clause empowering the Home Secretary to grant permission in exceptional cases for the employment of aliens in the civil service. It thus becomes absolute.

AIRSHIP MISHAP. (Received this day at 10.10 a.m.)

AMSTERDAM, Nov. 4

A German airship with a crew and passengers aboard totalling thirty, fail- | edto make a landing near Berlin, during I a storm, and the airship disappeared in the darkness bfidly damaged, There is I no further news , ARABS AND SYRIA. (Received this d«7 at 1.30 p.m.) PARIS, November 4. The Amir Feisul, in an interview, declared it was impossible for Arabs to consent to tho dismemberment of Syria. 'He asked M. Clemenceau not to divide the country, but he has not | received a reply.

j A REUNION DINNER. ' (Received this day at 9.25 a ./a.? i LONDON, Nov. 4. J General Sir R-. Henderson, presided 1 at the reunion dinner of the New ZeaI land Returned Soldiers’ Association, i There were 150, including Sir T. MacI Kenzie and Mr Fisher present. Reply- | ing to the toast of His Majesty’s Forces General lan Hamilton paid a. tribute to New Zealanders’ gallantry, and added: | “Send a cheque if, you like to support the League of Nations, but for God’s sake, boys, keep up your musketry practice.” Replying to the toast of the Overseas Forces General Monash said the Dominions war effort is the greatest imperial event’ in modern times. The

Association of New Zealanders with Australians-brought about a bond of comradeship which -was not going to die. (The war had been a wonderful experience for the dominions, despite the sufferings. It was a question whether the Dominions did not gain therefore, more than they lost.

A GERMAN VIEW. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) BERLIN, November 4. Tlie “Frankfurter Zeitung” declares France’s financial situation and her credits abroad will be decisively, influ■enced by Germany’s inability to meet her financial obligations. The war enterprise has been a failure for all European powers. The whole of Europe must combine to bring the failure to an end. The only means is a true League of Nations built on an economic basis.