MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

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WORLD WHEAT SHORTAGE. ,•Received this day at, 1.30 p.m.) 4 LONDON, June 8. ress is sounding a note of alarm ip connection with the world’s wheat position. The ('Times”, declares the

.j'V new food epoch has opened and unless U energetic steps are taken to meet the BPfjieril, bread promises to rise to unheard I, of prices over a series of years. The ■‘‘Times” urges drastic' Government action in the directiqn of increasing home

growing. , • The “Daily Mail” estimates -Europe on the Jatest figures, is likely to be short by a thousand million loaves in 1921, and is undoubtedly faced with a bread famine of the worst kind. Every country in Europe is importing, and none is 'exporting. Britain lias been left in the lurch with 3,7500,000 tons short. Experts sav on present prices it is cheaper to grow wheat in England than to bu y abroad. There is likely to be a wheat growing campaign comparable with the great war culture.

ACCUSED OF MURDER. (Rpieived Tliis Dav nf 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, June 8. ' Private Toplish cabled yesterday, is ’definitely identified. He is suggested also as the perpetrator of three recent untraced crimes, the murder of Nurse Shore in. a Hastings train in January, the murder of Hoare and his housekeeper near Truao and the. murder of Constable Kelly at Acton.

ZIONIST CONFERENCE

fc!) , (Reuter's Tel eg re m.) |/ ' (Received this dar at 1.5 p.m,) LONDON, June 8. , The Zionist World’s Conference ■ meets at London on July 4th, to (leal

jV,.7l"with the colonization of Palestine, for ;>’ the financing of which the Conference ffe will appeal to Jews in all parts of the ;f world to subscribe 25 millions.

A POLISH REPORT. (Received This Day at 1.5. p.m.) LONDON, June 8.

A Warsaw communique states between Dvina, and Borisoff, our counter- > offensive is developing satisfactorily, leaving considerable prisoners and ma--7 terials. Desertions from Bolsheviks are • increasing. Bolshevik attacks on bridge heads at Kieff were severely repulsed.