BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

- «*♦*» BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT PROMISE OF STRIFE. % (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Feb 2. Advices from Japan indicate the relations between Vladivostok Government and Japan are more strained, with a danger of hostilities between Russian and Japanese. It is said Japan intends to postpone consideration of the resumption of trade with Russia from Siberia until the Russians accept the Japanese demands and furnish guarantees ensuring the, adequate protection of Japanese interests. A concentration of Russian regular troops is occurring in Khabarovsk while Japan is reported to be throwing up defences at Nikolaievsk. STANDARD OIL ACTION. NEW YORK, yf'eb 2. It is expected that the Standard Oil Company, one of the largest employers in America will shortly announce a ten per cent, wage reduction . A GLOOMY REPORT. (Received This Dav at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, February 2. The report of the Ministry of Heal'h furnishes a grave warning, applicable to the whole world of the possibility of further epidemics similar to 1918-19, which were responsible for more deaths than the whole war. A number of the most eminent, state the world’s outlook in regard to the future pestilence is gloomy. The report emphasised that influenza is a mystery disease, despite all bacteriological tests and other data. Medical men are at a loss to define and express an opinion. The conditions over the wide tracts of the world would be favourable to further epidemics for at least another generation.