MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1920, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CA3LE ASSOCIATION. PRICE OF NEWSPAPERS. LONDON, Dec. 27. London penny newspapers are advancing in price by a half-penny at the end of January. EMIGRATION. UNITED SERVICE TELEGRAMS. LONDON, December 27. The “Daily Mail” announces that all the Dominions are alarmed at the reports that m ill ioiits are workl,ess in Europe and are preparing to migrate. Neither Australia nor Canada are prepared to welcome indigent people at the present time. They have their own difficulties. , The “Times” says emigration is no solution for unemployed. - * Inquiries at the New Zealand offices dor not hold much hope of relief in that direction. New Zealand is sending out six thousand ex-service mien and is considering tlie cases of three thousand more, but at least five thousand are' awaiting passages. ~ WORLD’S ARMAMENTS• (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) TOKIO, December 29. Tbp newspaper “Jijishimpo Ithich” one of tlie strongest supports of the Government’s naval policy has announced that if the cvorld consents to cease competitive naval construction, there is no reason why Japan’s plan for eight battleships, eight battle cruisers and 120 submarines to be completed in 1925, should not be modified. The newspapers have requested the Japanese Government to take the initiative, pointing out that the current expenditure on education is less than one tenth of that on armements. Danish bank smash. MADRID, December 28. - The Bank of Barcelona has suspended payment and its liabilities are sixty -million sterling. RIFLE SHOOTING. LONDON, December 29.

The “Morning Post” says:—The National Rifle Association is at last making an attempt to conver the Bisley meeting into a real imperial meeting by inviting all sections of the forces, ilnolulding the Dominions, to assist in compiling the programme.

, A REVIEW. LONDON, Dtcember 29. Mr Mayse, in an article in tho National Review” says:—Mr Hughes, strongly backed by Lord Sumner, made on earnest figbt during the negotiations preceding the armistice for the principle that Germany should pay the British war costs, but, fortified by the vigorous support of President Wilson, the American delegates at an informal conference, persuaded Mr Lloyd George, Signor Orlande, and M. Clemenceau to oppose Mr Hughes and Lord Sumners contention. The “Morning Poet” commenting on Mr iVfayses’ article, says : —The British public are entitled to kjnow exactly where Mr Lloyd George gave away tho British case, and supported President Wilson in this lino that anything demanded be paid by Gel-many on the narrowest possible scale. FRENCH PRESS COMMENT. 5 PARIS D deember 28. Tlie paper “Le Matin” alleges that tlie Ambassadors Conference has instructed tlie Allied Military Commission to ’furnish a full report on Germany’s disarmamient bjy December 31. Tlie same newspaper addß that Germany lias not fulfilled the engagement she entered into at the Spa Conference. The “Echo ds Paris” assents that Germany still possesses an armed force of three hundred thousand men, while her irregular military organisations comprise. 2,000,000 men. “Ixs Journals” Berlin correspondent says that the German Government, has received an energetic note on the subject from the Allies.

JAPAN’S PEACE PROFESSIONS. LONDON, Dec. 29. The Japanese Ambassador states Japan is ready to effect a reduction in her armament' in agreement with others. . She believes in mutual forebearanec and good will amongst nations, and wishes ardently foV the cause of the League of Nations to he crowned with success. UNEMPLOYMENT. LONDON, Dec. 28. Tho British Cabinet is now considering ii new scheme, to make, industry, that is both the employers and the Trade Unions, responsible for the solution of the unemployment problems, without any Government or othpr outside interventipii. *

Mr Wallace McGregor Smith (for the employers) and Mr Glynes (for they unions) favour the principle. There is, however, -a difference of opinion as to whether the obligation -should rest on industry as a whole, or on each trade to be responsible for its own unemployment.

Mr Clynes considers that the responsibility should he collective. Individual trades, he says, might ho saddled with impossible burdens, THE WOOL SCHEME. (Received This Day at 8.80 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 29. Yorkshire newspapers continue' the campaign against the wool scheme. The “Post” says it has obviously been formed in the interests of wool growers, not users. Government officials here become partisans to the scheme without the users being consulted. All wool departments statements issued lately read like briefs from wool growers. BOAT RACE DATE. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 29. The Oxford-Cambridge University boat race will take place at five o’clock in the evening of March 80th.