MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

*xJy Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

ITALIAN RATIONING

(Received this day at 10.20 a.m.) ROME, Feb. 29. Ferrari explains that the resumption of rationing, and drastic restrictions of food imports in Italy, is intended to prevent an economic crisis resulting in « catastrophe. Everyone is preaching economy, but none are practising it. The Government is determined to suppress unnecessary expenditure and enforce the cultivation of land. Lignite is obtainable in Italy as a substitute for imported c0a1... 0TJAPANESE STATEMENT. (Received this day at 10.20 a.m.! NEW YORK, February 4. Sidehara, the new Japanese Ambassador to United States, in a speech before ;th,e Japan 'society, said the Shantung question can never be the source of difficulties between Unite-l I States and Japan. We have enough ■lommon sense and clear vision to perceive the sheer madness of any attempt j at aggression or economic monopolisa- I tion in China. I STEAMER IN TROUBLE. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) I NEW YORK, March 5. Tlie steadier St Paul,: en route to I Southampton, sent a wireless' message i stating owing to trouble with her boilers she was returning to Halifax. The steamship carried 729 passengers and J a crew. ,