MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1920, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

.Ly LivMr.c 'i eicgiuph— CcjVi ig%; ,V JAAAN AND CHINA. V. ; PEKIN, April 17,y: Japanese, Troops in northern Man-, ehuria are occupying the Chinese eastern railroad, the alleged' purpose being to protect it against Bolsheviks. The French Government has requested. .China to continue .to 'pay /th’e !B xer. indemnity to the old-Czarist Ambassador at Pekin. .

MEXICAN ‘REBELLION. GUATEMALA .CITY, April 17. President Cabrera’s forces have capitulated to the revolutionary forces, Cabrera agreeing :to surrender himself on a guarantee ;of Ids personal safety and the retention of his property. MORE. PLOTTING. WASHINGTON, April 17. According to official "advices, Talaat Pasha and Mustaplia, Kernel, the Tur kish nationalist conspirators, have .been conferring at Munich, with . German Communists and Lenin’s emissaries, for the purpose of organising -concerted revolutionary movements in Turkey, Persia, India, and Egypt. It is understood Moslem, India, Persia, Azerbaijan, .'Afghanistan, and Egypt participated in the recent conference with Lenin a; Moscow.

SWISS DECISION. BERNE, April 1.7. The Central Commttee of Swiss‘Socialists, decided by a majority of ttvo,-: to adhere to the Moscow international:

MARY PICKFQI’D’S DIVORCE. NEW YORK, April 16 Advices from Carson City state the Attorney General is starting a suit to set aside Mary Pickford’s divorco. He charges Douglas Fairbanks, Owen Moore and Gladys Moore, (otherwise Mary Piekford) with perjury and collusion, with a view to evuling the Nevada divorce laws. The Attorney General also charges • Mary Piekford and Fairbanks with*entering into an agreement, prior to the granting of the divorce, by which they mutually promised marriage when Mary had secured a divorce from Moore. The latter is charged with conspiring with his wife and Fairbanks, by arranging to accept esrvico of the divorce. The Attorney General claims that Mary was not a, bona fnlc resident of Nevada that she arranged for seventeen, days residence within the State and thereby was enabled to obtain a divorce decree and departed the following day and bad not since resided in Nevada.

THE REBEL LEADER. NEW YORK, April 16. According to a message from El Paso General Flores, the rebel leader, is at Culiacan.

JAPANESE! ACTION. TOKIO, April 18. According to an authoritative report the General in Command of the Japanese forces in Siberia is being instructed to cease military operations pending the arrival in Siberia of a special commissioner to investigate the situation. It is understood that the liars Cabinet, at a meeting on the 16th of April, decided on this course. (LONDON, April 19. Latest news from Tolcio shows the Japanese are extending military operations in Siberia. It is now reported at Tolcio that the Japanese and Chinese mercenary troops are fighting the Soviets along the road west of Harbin. General Semen off is co-operating with the Japanese. He is aiding in establishing a new nnti-Bolhscvilc line as far ns Lake Baikal.

SENATOR. HITCHCOCK. NEW YORK, April 18. (Senator Hitchcock, in a speech at Omaha, to-day, said President Wilson was an invalid. He was in broken health, depressed in spirit and bitterly disappointed at the failure of the Senate to ratify th'e Treaty. He had known nothing but weaknes, weariness, and pain since bis breakdown last September. President Wilson, had, of course, made mistakes. He had made one mistake when he proposed to negotiate the Treaty without taking a few of the leaders of the Senate into Ill’s confidence. The ratification of the Treaty would have been easy had be done this. He lacked both tact and foresight. He had unwisely assumed that if be performed what lie thought bis duty, the Senate would consent to the ratification of the Treaty.

CANCER RESEARCH. LONDON, April 17. The Governors of Middlesex Hospital have agreed to an amalgamation by the Cancer Research Department, and the Blind Sutton Institute of Pathology with the object of more closely investigating the cancer scourge. The Dean of the Medical School dwelt on the terrible character of the scourge and the importance of concentrating their efforts. This would be better realised wlicnt it was known that one woman in eight and one man in eleven died of cancer in England and Wales.

SOUTH AMERICA TREATY. BUENO SATRES. April 19. As a result of a convention of South American police authorities, a treaty for adoption by Argentina, Brazil, Chili Peru, Parquay, and Uruguaiy has been drawn up, providing that these Oovernnicnts inform each other of anarchist deeds tending to subversion of social order. The newspaper “La Nacion, announced that Signor Viviani, Lord Nortlicliffc and other prominent Frencbment and'Englishmen will shortly visit Argentina to participate in a conference on Franco-Anglo-Argentina affairs-

DEMAND FOR. WORK. LONDON, April 18. : A large number of ex-service men from all parts of the country marched in a procession from the Embankment

to Hyde Park, where speeches were delivered from twenty platforms. A resolution was passed calling on the Government to .secure employment for all disabled men to provide adequate facilities for their training, the grant of equitable war gratuities, and the increase of pre-war pensions. Mr Trevalyn, member of the Executive of the Discharged Soldiers’ Federation, threatened that the Unions would picket Dover and Folkestons, and stop touring parties to the graves of fallen soldiers in France. The tourists were mainly profiteers who had fattened on the blood of the soldiers and the hardships of their families. BRITISH LABOUR- DEMANDS. LONDON, April 18. The largest trade unions are demand- 1 ing further substantial increases in, wages, based on trebled increases to the piiners and workers. The miners by a -majority of 20,000 j accepted the Government’s offer. j The final figures of the miners’ ballot give a majority of 65,000 in favour of the acceptance of tiic Government’s plfer.. ■•I Lancashire and South Wales favoured a] strike. [

~v 4 A PRESIDENT DEPOSED. \m GUATEMALA, April m v "b The Government of President C’ahyaras was deposed after Guatemala %ty had been bombarded. There were nearly five thousand casualties, including many women and children. Subseq&entlv President Cabraras surrender-^ %■ ‘ * '4 UNIVERSITY ATHLETES. | NEW YORK, April 17. 'lphe Oxford and Cambridge two-mile, relay team have arrived and will compete in the track meet of the University of Pennsylvania on Ist May. Jeppc, the Oxford hurdler, arrives later, pro-, bablv in time to make one of the team. THE HERO OF KUT. NEW YORK, April 17. General Townhcsnd, the hero of Kut has arrived on a five months sight-see-ing tour. DIVORCE LAW. PROPOSED CHANGES DEFEATED. LONDON, April 13. In the House of Commons, -Mr A. Reiulall (Co.-Liberal) moved in favour, of Icgisatilon embodying the majority report of the Divorce Commission re-, commending five new grounds for *ah- j vorcc, namely, desertion, persistent.j oruelty% drunkenness, incurable insanity, ami life imprisonment. An amendment by Mr R. McNeill ('Co..-Unionist) favouring sexual equality in divorce proceedings, and opposing changes in the law which would have, the effect of impairing the permanence of the marriage tie, was carried by 13! votes to 91.

STORMS AND BLIZZARDS. (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 19. Storms and blizzards are exceptionally severe this winter in the middle west. Twenty persons have been killed. SURRENDER OF CASPIAN FLEET. LONDON, April 15. The Teheran correspondent of “The Times” states that the Caspian Fleet, of fifteen ships, surrendered to Persia, were interned and disarmed at Enzeli. The officers at first wished the British to accept their surrender, hut it was pointed out that the fleet was not entitled to embroil largely defenceless Persia with the Bolshevists.

SUCCESS OF REBEL TROOPS. NEW YORK, April 15. Advices from Nogales, Arizona, state that General Flores has fought his way across the border, taking San Bias, on the boundary, and is proceeding with a force of 2500 men towards C'uliaean. General Iturabe appears unable to stem the tide of the rebel advance, and his troops are retreating in wild disorder. A report from Aguapricta states that the troops of the new Republic of Sonera arc invading the State of Sinaloa, which adjoins Sonora to the southward, and ore maiding upon Culiacan. A later message from Aguaprieta reports that General Gomez, a former commander of the Federal troops in the district of San Luis Potosi, with' the entire army, has revolted against President- Carranza, and openly declared himself for the revolutionary leader Obregon.