MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1920, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

f AUS'I'BALIAN # N.Z. CABLE ABSOCIAT*OnJ URGING REUNION. , , LONDON; October 18." i Many Oxford professors, dons, ai d heads have sent a. memorial to the Gor- .. man and Austrian universities urging >■ an amicable Anglo-German reunion and ' reconciliation, and also a restoration of former friendly intercourse. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) TOKIO, October 17. Before the Sunday School Convention ended, resolutions were adopted expressing satisfaction at the establishment of prohibition in United 'States, and urging the strongest international battle against the opium traffic. It was decided that special collections would b« taken up at Sunday Schools throughout the world, to provide funds 'or the relief of famine district? in Ghini. UNEMPLOYED. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) JOHANNESBURG, October 18. • The unemployed question Is becun* ing acute. A big demonstration dor manded.tliat Government provide works also calling upon workers to organise with a view to taking control of industry and substituting productlo a for use instead of production for profit. " KING OF GREECE. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) ATHENS, Octob r 18. Tlie King’s condition is slightlv improved, but anxiety is not removed. UNFAVOURABLE FRENCH COMMENT. (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, October 18. The newspapers contain grave ,o*yments on the action of English miners. • Tlie “Echo do Paris” considers - he strike has been “undertaken with revolutionary intentions more than a desire for higher wages. If the labour movement in England does not resume its old traditions, the British cannot linger play the part ip Europe that we ’cok to her to play.” Tlie “Figaro” says—“lt is only coo certain the miners will deal a blow at their pwn imprest? as wel} as those of Britain and Europe.”