MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1920, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright )

THE FINANCE CONFERENCE

(Received This Dav at 11.20. a.m.) LONDON, Feb .4.

The “Evening Standard” says that as a result of the Finance Conference, the holding of ‘an international conference will be recommended and probably held in London or in Paris if more convenient. It is understood the Treasury has decided to reduce the paper money flotation by twenty millions and further decreases will be made. The bankers have decided to keep a tight hold on advances till credit is improved, by increased production and economy.

THE WAR’S DEAR(Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) PARIS, Feb. 4. America is landing seventeen thousand tin lined coffins at Brest, to receive the bodies of soldiers for conveyance home. Special detachments of American gravediggers have been employed on the exhumations. Their work •is confined to back- areas, where the soldiers died in hospitals and the graves , of the men can be identified. The bodies of those who fell on the battlefields

will be left untouched. The laying out of fifteen hundred British cemeteries in France is now progressing rapidly.

WAR HONOURS. (Received this day at 1.30 p m.) LONDON, Feb. 5

An official statement of the war honours si lows the total conferred on British forces amounted to 247,580, and Indian forces 0,588. In the making of this total was 579 Victoria Crosses, two with bars; 8,991 Distinguished Service Orders, 784 with bars. A comparison is attached showing 3,714 honours conferred in the Boer War when troops in field numbered 448,435 against appioxi.l in fli Info war.

appeal for gold LONDON, February 4. The “Daily Express’’ appeals to everybody to #.ir»Sndfer gold ornaments' plate and jewels in order to liquidates (lie debt to America and restore exchange. CHANGE OF ATTITUDE. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.") ARCHANGEL, Feb. 4. An extraordinary changed attitude is reflected \v the speeches of Lenin and Trotsky at the Soviet Conference in Hos; cow on national economy. An officially published report states that Lenin emphasised the necessity of substituting individual for associated power in < the organisation of Government ■ and industry as already adopted in the army. Trotsky said that the only means of strengthening the Soviet’s power was to assemble workmen in the factories and send ehem from place to place on Government’s instructions and for peasants to he turned into lahou'r corps, under military discipline.