MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[••beuter’s” telegram.] LEAGUE OF NATIONS. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, October 14. The Council'of the League of Nations meet at Brussels on the 29th. Signor Tittoni submits a plan for international control of monopolies of raw materials. The Council will also draw up a programme for limiting armaments of various small nations, seeking, admission to the League. WAR MEDALS IN MILLIONS. LONDON, Oct. 13. The British War Office has distributed three million war medals. Of these 275,000 are 1914-15 stars. Six hundred thousand are British war medals that have gone to overseas dominions and colonies. INDIAN UNREST. (Received This Day at 10.35. a.m.) DELHI, Oct. 14. There have been significant happenings at Bombay. Several sporadic strikes are the result. The city has beep plunged in darkness for several days. Nationalist political agents incited dock labourers to refuse to handle Indian food products., intended for expert, declaring a famine existed in the interior. Meantime leading Indian merchants signed a manifesto in favour of boycotting the new Council. The object of these agitators is to make the inauguration of reforms a fiasco. Similar strikes occurred in Calcutta. AIR FORCE. (Received this day at 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 14. General Trencliard, addressing the Air Conference, said it was obvious that an air force, on the financial basis which peace time could afford, could not Create a reserve personnel and • maintain a stock of material requisite for war. They must he dependent on > I he c ivil development of commercial aviation, and asperate in a manner something akin to the Navy and Mercantile Marine.