BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1920, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

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LATEST FASHION SENSATION

LONDON, August 8,

Paris fashions have decreed a startling autumn skirt—a double panel finishing well above the knee. The rest »s merely fringe, and, acprding to the correspondent of “The Times,” it “swings distractingly aside in a vigorous stride or a pull of wind.”

ITALIAN WORKERS’ COUP. ROME, September 1. Half a million workerscin Lqmbardy have adopted a policy of obstruction at the workshops, instead of striking, in order to get increased wages. A large engineering works at Milan, employing several thousand, locked-out its workers. Thereupon the Syndicalist Union ordered the workers to seize all the .workshops unless the owners agreed not to resort to a lockout.-Most owners refused. The workers then seized three hundred of the largest workshops preventing the owners from removing papers, or money from the safes. They cut the telephones and placed guards over the clerical staffs, thus preventing their contact with owners. The workers have a plentiful supply of foodstuffs, and are perpared to hold the workshops against a siege. The coup was carried out without personal violence.

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER DEAL. LONDON, August 31. The Food Minister has ratified the New Zealand butter contract. He intiluted when doing so that he hoped to decontrol butter after March.

WARSHIP FOR NEW ZEALAND. LONDON, -August 31. The Chatham is leaving at the end of October for New Zealand arriving at Auckland in January, and is calling at Fiji and Samoa.

GERMAN DUMPING CHEAP GOODS. WASHINGTON, August 31. An official investigation shows that Germany is dumping inferior goods into American markets for sale at cut throat prices and is also dumping goods in England marked “made in America.”

CUBAN ELECTIONS. • WASHINGTON, August 31. The American Legation at Havana has issued a warning that United States will prevent violence or revolutionary activities in connection with the forthcoming Cuban Presidential election.

AMERICAN LEGISLATION. NEW YORK, September T. It is reported United States may have abrogate betwen twenty four and twenty seven commercial treaties under new Merchant Marine Act. Notice is to be given on September third, The entire abrogation of acts is expected as foreign Governments will not give preferential treatment to United States. The Treaty of 1914, between United States and Britain falls specifically within the provisions of the new act..