MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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GERMAN SHIPPING

LONDON, Sept. 18.

Herr Heineken, the Director-General of the North German Lloyd Shipping Coy., has arrived at Plymouth from New York, en route to Germany. In an interview, lie said he hoped the Company would soon re-open on most of its pre-war routes. He was of the opinion that the natural bitterness between the nations would soon disappear. The world’s trade could only be re-established by the nations working together harmoniously. He hoped that his passenger services would be running by March 1921, or perhaps earlier, 1 between Danzig and New York, calling at Southampton and Cherbourg. They hoped to 'run the Kfiiser Wilhelm the Second, the Ivronprinz Essen, Cecilic, the George Washington, the Princess Allice, the Princess Irene,- the President Grant, and the America.

ENGLISH CRICKETERS.LEAVE LONDON, Sept. 18.

A yery large crowd ' including the Enrl of Ellesmere and other members of the Marylebone Committee and many Australians, witnessed the departure of the cricketers at St Pancras. The utmost enthusiasm prevailed. Pawley and Warner presented the players with bunches of white heather, tied with English colors. Photographers and autograph hunters besieged the players, Aus tralian “Diggers” being pressed into photographs. The team were rousingly cheered as the train left.

OBITUARY. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 19. Obituary,—Right Hon. Sir William Matlier ;

COAL RATIONING. (Received Thiß Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 19

It is announced that the coal rationing scheme will be put intQ„ operation throughout the country in the event of a strike. Mapy employers in the Midlands served notices on the workers to the effect that there will be an immediate closing down of factories, in the event of a coal strike.

ENGINEER’S MOVE. ißeceived This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 19. Several north-east coast branches of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers in condemnation of deanery methods passed a. resolution in favour of payment by results. According to the national “News” other unions connected with sliip-building are expected to follow the same course.

FRENCH PRESIDENCY. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) PARTS, Sept. 19

M. Millerand’s supporters are sanguine of bis asquiescing to their glowingly insistent feeling in favour of his candidature for the presidency and vn the event of,his election, M. Brinnd is regarded as the next Premier.

FIRE IN HOTEL. -LONDON, Sept. 17. A fire at the Royal Fortescup Hptel, Barnstaple, cut (iff visitors sleeping in the upper storey, Mr >V. J- Oilbert, who won flic D.C.M, while serving with the Australians, finding the ladders too short, daringly lashed sevoral together and rested then) on a waggon; thus rescuing six persons.

INDIAN DANGER. (Received This Day at 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, September 19. A fanatical boycott of British Government trade officials and courts in India is being watched with great interest. There is anxiety l?,st it wreck the reform schapm, bringing a triumph for Dyerism'. Mr Garvin in the ‘.‘Observer” writes “A perilous crisis is upon British rule and the next three months will be the most fateful W jpdian history.”- Itfr Garvin, describes Ghandi ns an exalted idealist of concentrated sincerity, deaf to all prudential argument and adds, “his vast emotional policy is leading him to boycott evep schools ralfiways and telegraphs, opening a floodgate of anarchy which would mean that revenue would be suspended, commerce c ease, and lawyers not appear in Court. The excitement would engender violence." Garvin finds a hope in the withdrawal of half the delegates from the Congress, before the boycott was voted, but ha asserts the moderates in Indin, roust throw themselves against Ghandis campaign if the reforms are to be saved.

A COURTMARTIAL. deceived This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 19. Martin Short was courtinartialled at Newry for having in his possession a Republican army handbook. He was sentenced to huff a year’s imprisonment. seque( to, (he great Northern, (Ireland) decision cabled on 16th, disloyal hands were dismissed and the,ir places given to loyal, drivers, firemen arid guards.

THE ‘-HERALD” AFFAIR. (Received this day, at 9 r §Q J.ONDQN, September 18, Mr. Ernest Bevin of tlie Dpckers Union, a director of the ‘‘Daily Herald hag writfen to. Hpn Lloyd George pujtestiflg against fhe pfßcjal statement that the Herald would not have taken the public into its confidence regarding the proposed Bolshevik subsidy, had it not known the secret could no longer be kept. This statement Bevin regards as a reflection upon four Trad? Union officiajs, who are directors of the Herald. Hon. Lloyd George .replying recapitulates the damaging disclosure already piade concerning the negotiations and concludes.—Bit appears inconceivable that the directors who were really exercising business control over the concern *of which they were trustees for trade unions should not have been acquainted with what was going on. If they were [ignorant of such vital matters, it is n sinister commentary on the control exercised by trade Union representatives over this organ. Mr Bevin, replying, charged Lloyd George with side tracking the issue with his usual ability and not making lijs charges definite and explict. Bevin reiterates that the directors declined the offer as soon a-° it came to their knoweldge.