BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 February 1921, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. COLLEGE WAR MEMORIAL. LONDON, Feb 8. Tin Prince of Wales unveiled a memorial cross in St. John’s quadrangle, at .Magdalen College, Oxford, to the memory cl two hundred members of the college who fell in the war. MILITARY MISSION MOLESTED. PARIS, Feb 8.

IP ports from Berlin show that a hostile feeling is manifested against officers of the British and Italian military mission.- when they appear in the streets. Some were molested in tram-cars.

ADDRESS BY LLOYD GEORGE

LONDON, February 8. Mr Lloyd George addressing tho Welsh Liberal Association '(Executive said: —These were not normal times. There were gigantic events in the making. 'The world was reeling under I the most terrible blow ever dealt. How could it recover in two years ? It was 1 restless and demoralised. The machinery of tirade was dislocated. Things ' had to !>e pulled back. New nations had risen. Like the morning of the Resurrection, now light was dazzling them . They were really like men drunken with liberty. The danger to Britain was not past. “We do not know where we are,” lie declared, “in reference to Germany.” Anyone responsible for the Government J deserves something better than thwarting and nagging.” MR CHURCHILL IN HARNESS. 9 LONDON, Feb 7. I Lord 'Milner has surrendered the j seals, and Mr Churchill has taken up j tp duties at the Colonial Office, j ’A ! A BANK ROBBED. j LONDON, Feb 8. ' Anned Sinn Feiners raided a branch of the National Bank in Dublin. A j party of auxiliaries were passing. They say the thieves and opened fire which was returned. The thieves escaped, ! along with £IOOO in notes. , PRINCE OF WALES AT OXFORD. ! LONDON, .Feb 8. i The Prince of Wales, speaking at Oxford referred to his world tour and to ■ the wonderful welcome of tho people |of "the Dominions had given him in every city. He said that lie owned a . great debt of gratitude to the whole j Empire’ . He felt that at Oxford he had an opportunity of repaying ■ a portion of the debt, and, as an Oxford man,' he welcomed all undergraduates from the Dominions and the Colonies. He hoped they would return to tell freshmen out there, what a. good place i Oxford was..

j GERMANS’ COUNTER PROPOSALS. ! BERLIN, Feh 8. The German Foreign Office has informed the French Embassy that Germany .accepts the invitation to the London Conference, on the assumption that the negotiations will bo based on the German counter.proposals to the ; Allied demands. RUSSIAN MUTINY REPORTED. COPENHAGEN,-Feb. 8. A serious mutiny lias Broken out at Kronstadt, the Russian naval station. Sailors have taken possession of the harbour and docks. The officials ot Petrograd, "not trusting the local garrison, sent four Bolshevik regiments from Moscow. Severe fighting is going Oil. | JAPAN’S ARMAMENTS. TOKIO, Feb. 8. The former Opposition leader, M. Yukioozaki, announces that he will independently introduce to the Diet, a , resolution proposing the curtailment of the Japanese naval armament expenditure. I COMMERCIAL.

LONDON, Feb. 8 Lead imports, 1213 tons; Australia!'. 3511, exports 1010. Peninsular shares are £340 to £300; Banks, Australasia 831, New South Wales 24J, (ex); New Zealand 75), New Zealand Loan 50) and 90). RUSSIA’S FOREIGN POLICY. COPENHAGEN, Feb. 8. .... Trotsky states that Russia still has two million soldiers. .Russia, he says, should keep on friendly terms with Germany, wJiich had supplied her with arms. Sho also should he friendly to Japan, as otherwise war in the Near East would he impossible. * HOME POLITICS. THE COALITION SPLIT. “ THE TIMES ” SERVICE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, February 8. Lord Robert Cecil has accepted the chairmanship of a Parliamentary Committee of the Peoples l Economy League, thus definitely heading the Unionists revolting against the Coalition.

FOOTBALL DISORGANISES BUSINESS. (Received This Day at 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, February 9. The Scottish municipalities and heads of industrial concerns have protested to the football authorities against the disorganisation of business caused through -the mid-week cup ties, at which 120,000 attended last week at the Glasgow and Edinburgh match. GREEK PREMIER. (Received Tins Day at 9.45 n.mA PARTS, Fob 9. The “Matins” Athen’s correspondent says Calogoroupoulis made a. statement in the Greek Assembly that he would continue the former Cabinet’s foreign policy. It was intended tho London Conference would give its utmost support to execution of tho Treaty of Sevres, which was the maximum, acknowledgement of Hellenic rights.