LATE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1920, Page 1

LATE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright./ ADMIRAL JELLICOE. WASHINGTON, December 31. It is announced that Admiral Jellieoe ha s left Canada and reaches Washington 3rd January, he will stop off Newport where he visits the Naval War College. Lady Jellicoe will sail for England from New York and Admiral Jellicoe leaves for Cuba on 6th January.

A TRADE CORPORATION. NEW YORK, December 31. It is announced that the Foreign Commerce Corporation of which J. P. Morgan, is one of the originators has been formed, and will engage in international trade.

THE MOST BACKWARD NATION. LONDON, December 31. Mr Lloyd George Visited the waterpower works in the Conway Yalley. In the course of a speech, he regretted that Great Britain was the most backward nation in the utilisation of water-power.

Germany had long used water-power for agricultural and other purposes. Tile secret of the future lay in' the adequate exploitation of our great natural resources. Cheaper power would revolutionise industry.

Labour was demanding shorter hours therefore something must be done to increase production. Willing hands wore shrouded in the clouds —which did ,not demand an eight-hours day. It was true that the clouds sometimes struck, but dams were prepared in these cases as strike-breakers. Great reservoirs held stored water while the clouds were striking.

FRENCHMEN CHARGED WITH MURDER, LONDON, December 30. Tne enquiry held by the British authorities with reference to the l’eronne fracas on November 14th. shows that two Australians belonging to the Graves Detachment entered a cafe. They were accused by a Frenchman belonging to a reconstruction camp, of mixed nationalities, of stealing a hatchet.

The Australians denied the accusation, but were assaulted. The Australians forced their way to the door, and ran down the road. Their assailants followed them, firing revolvers. One Australian was killed and the other severely wounded.' The commander of the reconstruction camp, in a letter, deeply regrets the incident, and pays a. warm tribute to tli Australians’ gallantry in the war, and to the good conduct of those in the neighbourhood. Four Frenchmen have been arrested and charged with murder.

MAKING IT PAY. GERMAN WAR LORDS’ PROFITS. BERLIN, December 30. The war lords are receiving astonishing prices for their war hooks. Marshal von TTiiulcnburg sold his American rights for 4,000,000 marks, at the present rate of exchange. General von Ludendorff obtained 2,500,000 marks for the English, Colonial, and American rights for his book, another 1,000,000 marks for Germany, and other European countries. Grand-Admiral von Tirpitz got 900,000 marks, and Dr von. Bethmann-Hollweg and Heir von Helfferich 250,000 marks each.

LOST ON THE GOODWINS. LONDON, December 31. The rescue of survivors from a wreck on the Goodwin Sands apparently Isolvcs the Christmas night mystery One survivor, an engineer from the steamer General Clive, states that the ship stranded on the sands in terrible weather. He entered a small boat with the captain, but lie remembered little, owing to bis sufferings, and does not know the fate of tile captain, and the remainder of the crew of 32.

THE CAPE RACE WRECK. ST JOHNS (Newfoundland), Dec. 30.

Three men were rescued half dead from the Dutch steamer Anton van Driet, which was wrecked off Cape Race. They are the only survivors out of a crow of 29.