MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

(13y Electric Telegraph— Copyright) PRESSMEN TO FOREGATHER. - * (Received This Day at 11.20. a.in.) LONDON February 18. t ■ Elaborate impingements are being jfliido iij. Canada in connection with the Empire Press Union delegates’ tour, and the forthcoming conference at Ottawa. The delegation leaye Liverpool, on July 17th. jind return .in the middle of September. It will consist of one hundred proprietors and editors' of the leading journalists from all parts of the '->■ ■* Empire. The tour will comprise the ' - ' principal ,centres, enabling the visitors to make a first hand, .study of Canadian conditions, t Lord Burnham, will be Chairman of the United Kingdom Press Delegation, and the Dominions be well represented. trade profiteering. SHEETING HOME A CHARGE. (Renter’s Telegram.) (Received This Dav at 11.20. a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 18. ' The Profiteering Act sub-committee inquiring into the alleged sewing cotton combine report that after exhaustive inquiries we find that the manufacture of sewing cotton is virtually a monorj, poly of Coates, who have taken advan., tage of their monopoly to restrict the trade, making it extremely difficult for # competing firms to obtain a footing and * that in view of the fact that Coates last September estimated the total manufacturing selling costs amounted to 3.38 pence per reel, the advancement of the retail seiling price to 71 d was hardly justifiable. The retail price should not exceed 6d per reel. Coates’ increased their net profit per reel by 168 per cent between 1914, and 1919. The sub-com-rniftecf, however, express the opinion that when Coates! present supplies of . ' raw and manufactured cotton are exhausted, the price of sewing cotton must rise, unless th© price of cotton falls.

A TANK OFFENSIVE. (Uoseivp.l This Dav ni 1 ‘2.35 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 17. Colonel Fuller, formerly Chief of the Tank Corps staff, has published a book sketching the fast British tanks ready for next war, which it is assumed may break out in three years. The new types are two hunderd per cent, superior to the old, trebling the present speed. Thpy are designed to advance in great numbers under smoke screens and attack enemy headquarters, thus destroying the Army’s brains. Meanwhile, thousands of aeroplanes would attack the enemy’s industries and covering centres. ARMENIAN MASSACRES. (Received This Day at 12.25 p.m.) ATHENS, Feb. 18. ? Latest reports from Cilicia show that the serious massacres continue. The population protested to General Gourand the French Commander-in-Clnet, asking him to allow the formation of an Armenian militia, the abolition of the " ' Turkish police and the right to arm themselves against the Turks. COMMERCIAL RIVALRY . BRITAIN AND GERMANY ANXIOUS FOR RUSSIAN TRADE (Received this dav at 12.25 p.m) BERLIN, Feb. 17. The Germans beleving that Britain is arranging to trade with Russia through say’if any any business is possible, then we are going to be in it. The Soviet Agent, now in Berlin supposedly concerned in negotiations for an exchange of war prisoners, is believed act_ usilly to be arranging for the resumption of trade relations. Large numbers of German war prisoners are remaining in Russia. They are associated with the Bolsheviks and are likely to prove valuable promoters of trade.