MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1919, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

*J5y Electric .Telegraph—Copyright.;

REDUCED COAL PRICES. • / (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 24.

Sir Auckland Geddes stated the Government had reviewed the entire position of coal prices. There were unexpectedly high profits from export and bunker coal, but coal for inland consumption was sold at less than .cost arid it became necessary to modify the existing control by limiting the exportable quantity limiting orders and promts iand specially Jimiting price of household coal which will be reduced 10/- next week. BELGIUM CABINET. (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) BRUSSELS, Nov. 24. King Albert has request Dela Croitu to form a Coalition Ministry. YOUNG FRANCE PARTY. (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, November 24, The young France party which is being formed in the new Chamber excludes all formerly holding Ministerial offices, and supports the policy of securing a budgetary equilibrium and reorganisation of economic administration. . UNEMPLOYED OFFICERS. (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 24.General Haig addressed a Mansion House meeting of employers on behalf ojf London’® twelve thousand unemployed ex-officers. The King sent a •massage (hoping a successful effort would be made to secure them employment.

A. SWISS TROUBLE. LONDON, November 27. (Pro-Bolshevism is reappearing in Switzerland following the elections where Socialists are expected to gain Iburt/eon. >seatsj A demonstration in favour of Lenin and Trotsky,was held at Geneva. Parisian police seized copies of the •Swiss organ “Lafeuille” printed in French. ROME, November 24. Signor gcialja succeeds Tittoni. PEACE RUMOURS. (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, November 24. There are many rumours that Litvinoff, as, Commissioner will institute peace pourparlers. /This is discredited. O’Grady is not authorised to deal with any subject except the inter-change of prisoners QUIET IN EGYPT’. (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) CAIRO, November 24. The latest advice says all is quiet in Alexandria, and Cairo. The new Government have appointed Wahba Pasha as Premier. KANGAROO’S JOURNEY. LONDON, November 26. The Kangaroo left Romilly at 9.40 on Wednesday morning. RED CROSS PILFERERS. (Received This Da* a*. 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, November 24. Sjoirgeant-Major E. W. Dudford, Sfergt. Simpcock, Corporal W. G. Grosvenor, Private P. Courtenay, all Australians were charged • at (Lambeth with being concerned in theft of £1960 sterling worth of Australian Red Cross (stores. The prosecution alleged that Dudford incited Grosvenor, a despatch clerk in conjunction with Simpcock and Courtenay, who were in charge of iloiTieis, to remove goods to the premises of two men named, Barfoot and Kellard who were also charged. It was alleged Barfoot and Kellard in two months disposed of five thousand pairs of sock®, a thousand shirts, two hundred pyjamas and other goods belonging to the Australian Red Cross.

LUSITANIA’S DEAD. (Received this day at 8.15 a.m.) LONDON, November 24. The bodies of all Americans killed through the sinking of the Lusitanip have been exhumed at Queenstown, and are being shipped for reburial in United States. '

GERMAN INDEMNITY. (Received This Day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, November 24.

7 rpjjte “Times” Teheran correspondent reports the railways for twelve miles on both sides of Bokhara are torn up, to prevent Bolslievik attacks. The (Ameer sternly, rejected a combined Turco-Afgban-Rolshevi,k proposal to Bokhara to pres s Persia to enter the pan-Islamic Union. The proposal has fcinoe 1 been converted into threats against ' Bokhara.. . A Bolshevist force is established at Kitzie and Arvat and threatens Krasnovodsk.