MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1921, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION,

PACIFIC CABLES

LONDON, March 21

Mr Avery, Superintendent of Imperial cables, lecturing the Postal and Telegraph Society, eulogised the Pacific service which was increasing to such a degree that it was necessary to duplicate a considerable section, especially from Bamfield to Fanning Island, which hampered the speedy transmission, notwithstanding that excellent results bad been achieved, last summer’s twenty minutes’ record from the King to the Prince of Wales giving the result of the Derby, being surpassed during the cricket tour when the scores were received in London head office from Sydney ground, within fifteen minutes. The Imperial services embraced two Atlantic cables, one of which was leased to the Western Union, subject to resumption when required. Imperial business was increasing as a result of a canvassing of. customers. Mr Avery was of opinion that the foundations of a State owned cable service were securely laid.

UNPAYABLE RAILWAY

CAPETOWN. March 22

The Minister of Railways stated the position of the railways was unsatisfactory. The total expenditure was estimated at twenty-eight million, and despite four increases in the rates in the last seventeen months, the accumulated deficit exceeded two millions.

GEORGIANS AND TURKS. •‘iiiie times” service. LONDON, March 21. The Georgian Government Army refused to submit to the Turkish regime at Batoum and attacked and expelled the Turks. There was heavy fighting and the city was partly destroyed. Georgia has proclaimed a Bolshevist Soviet is established. MANDATES. LONDON, March 21. Mandates for Samoa, New Guillen and Nauru were laid on the table of the House of Commons. / RRITISH-ETSSO TRADE. LONDON, March 21. Sir P. Lloyd Greame, replying to a question said British merchants doing business under the Anglo Soviet agreement must look to themselves lor the successful issue of the commercial undertaking. Government had the right to send an official commission to Russia to facilitate and carry out the agreement and protect the interests of British subjects. CENSUS NOT WANTED. LONDON, March 21. The Bail Eireann announces it refuses to permit a census being taken, as an invasion of the rights ol the Irish people by alien races. ITALIAN LABOR MOVE. ROME, March 21. Resenting the dismissal of 800 men in connection with a scheme reducing staffs, 3,000 men at Michelin tyre works entered the works and remained inactive, causing a heavy loss. Ihe firm immediately closed down and the military occupied the premises. Sind lar occurrences in other large works are recorded.

FINDLAY ON YELLOW PERIL. AMERICA THE WHITE HOPJI LONDON, March 21. Sir John Findlay, of New Zealand, states that lie regards the question of a white Australia and a white New /calami as one that will become grave. The question was whether or not Japan was going to try and force the door which Australia and Now Zealand had Hosed. This problem equally concerned Canada, South Africa and America. The feeling in Australia and New Zealand was so strong that the people would fight both before they would submit to be overrun. lie says the true security for future peace is that Britain must .have a closer relationship with America. CHURCHILL IN EGYPT. LONDON, .March 21 Af,- W. Churchill, during the British political crisis, has been engaged in a camel expedition to the Pyramids and tombs of Sakkara. Soon after leaving Mena Hotel, be was thrown from a camel, and bruised. He remounted and continued the expedition. He sketched the Pyramids. The report that .he has been recalled to London is now officially contradicted. JAP AN’S PR INTENSIONS. TOKTO, A far ch 21. Two hundred prominent Japanese, including Uchida, Kato, and Viscount Sliusawa, have organised an International Peace Society to promote friendship amongst various nations.