MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[“keuter’s” telegram.] JUTLAND BATTLE. (Received This Day at 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 27. James Craig announced in the Commons that the existing official account of Jutland will now be published, as considerable German evidence is now available which threw much light on the battle from a new angle and the one sided account based on British evidence alone might give a distorted version of affairs as a whole. Replying to a quesion whether the delay was due to' a difference of opinion between Jellicoe and Beatty, Mr Craig said there was not the slightest foundation for that suggestion.

IMPORTANT DECISION. LONDON, Oct. 27. A conference of building unions in Manchuria re-affirmed the refusal to suspend the trade union regulations so that ex-service men may be engaged to provide the Labour requisite for the solution of the Labour problem. The decision is important in view of Hon Lloyd George’s warning that he would take certain steps in the event of such a decision,

A GREEK ROMANCE. ATHENS, Oct. 26. The death of King Alexander ends one of the most remarkably Royal romances of modern days. He showed a fond attachment for his Morgantic wife, a beautiful wealthy Greek, Mademmselle Aspasia Manos, though the offidais barred the. palace door against her. A DENIAL LONDON, October " 27. Lord Forster’s solicitors deny that he claimed £79,000 from London County Council for Catford Estate. He was throughout willing to leave the matter to the arbitrator. The laud’ was valued in 1911 under the Finance Act at £67,604, and' he paid undeveloped land du'y on that valuation, so that £79,000 was , not an undue estimate. ■