MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[“REUTEII’s” TELEGRAM.] RAILWAYMEN’S DECISION. TO STRIKE ON- SUNDAY. { (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) , LONDON, Oct. 21. The Railwaymen decided that unless negotiations between Government and | the miners open before Saturday, the railwaymen will strike on Sunday at ; mid-night. FLAGS BURNT. PARIS, Oct. 21. The Reparation Committee who proceeded to Berlin to secure flags captured in 1870, learned that Berlin students 1 made a bonfire of them in 1919 at the , statue of Frederick the Great. OVERSTOCKED. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) PARIS, Oct. 21. The Petit Journal reports an industrial crisis exists in Northern France. 1 Almost all the textile factories in Lille, Roubaix and Tourcoing are closed, owing to the few orders reeived for woollens, and large stocks 0 n hand unsold. EXPLOSION LOSS. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) TOKIO, Oct. 20. The explosion in Tongshan coal nnno in Chili province, China, caused over four hundred deaths. FRENCH FINANCE, (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) PARIS, Oct. 20. In the Chamber of Deputies the Minister of Finamce presented an optimistic financial statement. He said thanks othe untiring devotion of the people, he situation in the devastated regions was good. Seventy-seven per cent, of the destroyed factories had resumed work and H million hectores of land had been reclaimed, 56 per cent, "being sown in corn harvest. In ten of the .devastated departments there would be ten million quintads. Similar progress was being made in reliabilatmg the mines and railways, reclamation beiim conducted with the greatest difficulty. Most of the population were living in cellars and shanties. The Bud. get showed the commercial deficit was reduced from sixteen to ten milhar s. Exports had doubled and imports increased' by three-fifths. A short term American loan had been repaid. Neu taxation covered m the 1921 budge lowing 161 milliards for reconstruction and pensions repayable by The whole situation indicated that anxiety regarding France’s future was a thing of the past. r-