MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1919, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

Usy Electric Telegraph—Copyright.,

LAST OF AUSTRALIANS LEAVE. LONDON, November 12. Generals (Bird wood, Monash, MeGlynn and Wisdom, together with 250 other Ausralian officers and men, along

with many dependents, are sailing for Australia aboard the liner Oroomena on {Saturday.

TRIBUTE TO THE “AUSSIES.” LONDON, November 12. The Australian Press Association has interviewed General Monash prior to hi s departure. He said:—“l am ]ollv glad to find myself on ,the eve of departure. I have been away from mv home for five years, but the last nine months have been much more >tren ious than the four years of war. Demobilisation has proved a stupendous task. It would be difficult enough in peace time, with the help of a trained staff to transport a city of two hundred thousand to the /Antipodes in nine months. We have succeeded in completing the bulk of the embarkation in eight months. In enlisting +he sympathy of the men I have followed a princple of. conduct which animated me throughout the war. It is based on the experience "that if you give an Australian a fair deal, he will do anything in the world for you. The mutual con fidence of the men and officers was the bedrock of the success of rthe Australians in the war. One is almost tempted to think that, as against the terrible losses which Australia has suffered, there may bo very substantial benefits in a moral uplift and vast educational experiences gained .by the young men of Australia. WAIMANA ENQUIRY. LONDON November 12. The Waimana Court of Inquiry finds no cupable neglect on the port of any specific officer. No individual was responsible for the trouble which arose from an unhappy combination of circumstances owing to a misunderstanding over a telephone resulting in the assumption that the agreement had been agreed to whereas an agerement was not definitely reached. Later. The recommendations made by the Waimana Inquiry Board to remove the risk of a recurrence of the troubles are being immediately put into effect. Regarding the delays and discomforts atending the actual embarkation, the Board finds the conditions are at fault. These include those over which the •Australian authorities have little or r.o control, but. recommendations are made with a vew to improving or removing them.

EGYPTIAN UNREST. CAIRO, Nov. 13

An official report states a prohibition of all demonstrations, combined with a strong display by forces of police, had a quieting effect in Alexandria. A tew hundred noisy demonstrators gathered, but were dispersed after skirmishes with the police, and a few arrests. There was nothing like an organised movement.

An appeal has been made for volunteers to run railways, and resulted in hundreds offering daily. The threatened general strike apparently has been postponed. REPARATION CLAIMS. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, November 12 In connection with the reparation claims against Germany, the Treasury is engaged in computing the pension claims. They had enlisted the co-one-ration of Overseas officials in the natter. It is understood the French pension system will be used as a bnis whereon the aggregate amount will bo fixed. The whole quetion bristles with technical difficulties. Among the points raised is how far, if at all, provision can be made for those whose health later on may entitle them to claim a pension after the total amount of Gc.many’s liability is fixed.

1 BRITISH NAVAL LOSSES. J (Received this day at 8 a.m.) 1 LONDON, November 12 ; In the Commission Hon. W. Lone stated that food cost £5,035,000. Ex elusive of guns, the British naval losses since the armistice were one list cruiser two destroyers, two mine-sweepers, cue j submarine, and three coastal motorboats in the Baltic and two mine-swe«p-ers and two moniors at Archangel. 'AIR SERVICE. LONDON, November \'2. Lord Seely speaking from the front Opposition bench said that he fouui dual control of the air service did net work. He askejl to be relieved during the war, but remained under pressure. The Premier decided to maintain the existing plan which Seely regarded as wasteful, and inefficient. He said condemned The Air Minister to bo a mere annex to the War Office.

a BOARD OF TRADE. - (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, November 13. The Board of Trade has granted a general license under the Defence of the Realm Act permitting the issue of capital. A PAINTING. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, November 13 The Felton bequest has purchased for the National Gallery of Victoria, a portrait of Countess Canan, painted in 1751 by Allan Ramsay. CITY TEMPLE PASTOR. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, ‘ November 13. Captain Norwood of Australian Y.M.C. A. succeeds Fort Newton as pasW of the City Temple until March 1920, when he resumes work in Australia. AN EARL’S DEATH. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) LOSDON November 12. Earl Brassey’s death followed an operation to the head as the result of a street accident. M.P.’S GET TWO MONTHS. (ICecpivpH This l»av at 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, November 12. Three Sirin Fein members of the House of Commons were sentenced to 1 two month's at Dublin, for participation in a forbidden Sinn Fein meeting. PEACE 1 THANKS OFFERING. OF £150,000. (Received This Day. at 9.25 a.rn.) PARIS, November 12. An anonymous citizen has refunded £150,000 sterling worth of funded loan scrip, as a peace thanksoffer’ng. CHINA AND JAPAN. (Received this day at 8.15 a.m.) PEKIN, November 12 Although the Japanese bav e started a movement to induce the Chinese Government to open negotiations direct with Japan, for the return of Kiaochau, The Chinese seem content to wait for the final decision of the League. TERMS. FOR MAHOUDS. ALLAHABAD, Nov. 14. General Kochi’s column moved out ( from Dardoni on the 12th for Datta Khol. The first echelon reached Boya without opposition. Afghan irregulars are still at En Wana, but the commander, Shah Daula, is reported to have left. The terms rejected by the Mahouds included the claim that the Government of India should make roads, and station troops in any part of the protested area, the Mahouds to restore all rifles and bombs taken, not to interefere with the movements of troops, and pay a fine of ten thousand rupees, and deposit two hundred rifles as a guarantee of good faith. LONDON, Nov. 13. On Armistice Day, Magistrate’s discharged many culprits who stood in the docks during the silence . V.C.’s AWARDED. LONDON, Nov. 13.

The Victory Cross has been awarded to Commander C .C. Dobson, arid to Lieut. G. C. Steele, of/ the Navy, in connection with a motor boat raid on Kronstadt on the 18th August. Dobson was the commander of a flotilla, and hisi boat torpedoed a Bolshevik battleship and also a second battleship. There are many lesser awards to officers and men for the sanle exploit.

PARIS PAPER STRIKE. PARIS, Nov. 13. Paris is) without newspapers on the eve of the elections. Fifty journals have combined in the issue of ft four-page paper called, “La Press de Paris.” Therein leading writers express tlie views of their respective organs.