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Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

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jDY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION INDIAN UNREST. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) DELHI, Fob. 17. The Duke of Connaught arrived at llawal Pindi and was warmly welcomed. Strikes and disturbances on the slightest pretexts are widespread on the northern, railways, which are working badly. Non-co-operators are attempting to withdraw servants from Euro- ■ peans, who have to perform their own menial duties. A Calicut magistrate j sentenced four Extremsit leaders to six j months. Troops protected the court 1 during the trial. Meetings arc prohi- ! bited. i | BRITISH WAR SHIPPING. j (Received This Day at 10.35 a.m.' | LONDON, Feb 16. The final figures supplied by the Ministry of Shipping show the total cost of ships built in United Kingdom was .361 million. They were sold for 17} million. Ships built abroad cost twentyseven million and were sold at 181. This gave a net profit of 2} million apart from the use of vessels for carriage of, troops amd goods, which saved the country twenty-seven millions. The total turnover of the Ministry was a thousand million. At t.io crisis of the war the Ministry controlled three-quar-ters of the world’s shipping. When the U-boat menace was the severest, tbe Controller ordered 821 vessels, and 225 were completed before the armistice.

Of the remainder, orders for 126 wen cancelled at a cost of half a millioi and 279 were transferred to - private owners without loss to the Department CHEMICAL MANUFACTURES. (Received This Day at 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 16. Mr Moulton addressing the Associa ti«n of British Chemical Manufactures said no nation had chemists supcrioi in quality to the British, though' somr foreigners were vastly superior in experience. British manufacturers had the right to say to Government: ‘‘You compelled’ us to take industries up bccmfce of the immediate need, at a cost we never believed could lie remunerative. We therefore ought tc he allowed time wherein we shall he sheh'tercd from outer competition, until wp are capable of doing work permanently.” AUSTRALIAN WINE. LONDON, Feb 16.

January imports of Australian wine totalled 162.220 gallons compared with thirty thousand for the previous January and mono for the January 1013. British consumption this January was 75.12 J compared with 74,512 in ,lnnuai> 1913. AMERICAN SENATE. P.l Tills n. 10 or, p n> 1 WASHINGTON, Fel». 17. The Senate passed .an Emergency Tariff Bill by forty three to thirty. Th«? vote is less than the two thirds necessary to over-ride the President’s veto, which is considered certain. The Bill which is heavily amended and 1 ikel\ to conflict with the Lower House remains effective for ten months from date or approval and provides a tar if! oil wheat of forty cents per bushel, cattle thirty per c ent ad valorem fresh-or frozen beef, veal, mutton, lamb pork, two cents per pound, wool, unwashed fifteen cents per pound, washed thirty cents, scoured forty-five cents. A CHINESE DISPUTE. i llecei 1 . "d this day at !2.2-' '•.re* WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. The State Department announced strong remonstrances had been made to China and Britain against, the cancellation of the contract of the Federal Telegraph Company, an American concern, to erect a wireless at Shanghai, where h British-firm took action to compel China to cancel the American contract claiming the former holds a contract conferring monopoly lor eretion wireless in China. It is undeistood the British Government is supporting the firm s stand. STEAMER PURCHASE. tßeceived This Day at 12.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 17. The steamer Wandilla which was purhased by Furness and Withy from Adelaide Steamship Cov., has arrived and will be reconditioned and placed on the Bermuda run. MAIL ROBBERY. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m! NEW YORK, February 17. A message from Toledo, Ohio, states five motor bandits held up postal offiials engaged in transferring mail from trucks to the post office, escaping with eleven sacks of registered mail, estimated to contain a million dollars. ABCHISHOP CLUNKAS DENIALS (Received This Day at 1.5. p.m.) FREMANTLE. Feb <lB. Earl Strnbrooke, the new Governor of Victoria a-nd Archbishop Clinic were passengers by the Osterly. Chine emphatically denied that the interviews regarding the Irish position, cabled to Australia before lie left Britain took place. In one alleged interview with Lloyd George the supposed questions and answers were cabled. This was entirely without foundation. ARRESTS IN FRANCE. (Received This Day at 1.5. p.m.) PARIS, Fob 17. The examination of those arrested in connection with the movement in Franco has established that the alleged Bolshevist agent, Adramovitch had a deposit of two hundred thousand francs in an American hank in Paris. The money came from a. Gorman hank. A number of further arrests have taken place throughout France, also Algeria and Tunis. John Minkin, who was arrested ,was found to possess what purported to he a passport signed bv a, representative of the Soviet Government in Sydney, Australia. The police discovered large quantities of stolon explosives in houses of four men known to be Bolsheviks.