BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1921, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

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LOAN FOR AUCKLAND. LONDON, March 27. The underwriting has been arranged of the city of Auckland loan of half a million at 61 per cent, as granted bv the Government of New Zealand. BUTTER SLUMP. LONDON, Mardli 26. Th e b,utter traders anticipate a full of from 4d to 6d per pound in the retail price of butter when the free -sire of government stocks commence in April. Meamvhil e however, Danish butter has hardened to 260 per cent c.i.f owing to a good demand in the midlands and the north. Cheese is firm, but is likely to be easier with the arrival of four steamers from New Zealand next week, except coloured cheese, which is scarce. ! PROSPECT OF STRIKE. LONDON, March 26. The British Miners Federation conference of district delegates have rejected the coal owners’ proposal for a return to the pre-war system of district | wage agreements for the different coal fields instead of the uniform national | rate as lias been prevailing under State control. ! Therefore a general stoppage on the coal fields is expected when the coal industry is decontrolled on March 31.

AMERICA’S- VIEWS'; WASHINGTON, March 25. Th 0 State Department has notified -- the Soviet Government- that the United States views with sympathy and with concern the plight of the Russian people, and desires to aid them by every appropriate means for the promotion of proper opportunities through which commerce can be established oir a sound basis. The Department stated it was manifest to the American Go- . vernment in the existing circumstances that there was no assurance for the development of trade as long as the present causes of impoverishment continue. It was only in productivity of Russia that there was any hope fir the Russian people. It was idle to expect any resumption of trade until the economic basis of production was securely established, including the recognition of private, property, sanctity of con- ( tract, and right of free labour. UnGl the United States received convincing proof that such rights were guaranteed, it was unable to perceive any proper basis for considering trade relations • OBITUARY. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) - . LONDON, March 28. Obituarv.—Harry Barron. jPARIS, .March 28. Hadden Chambers. . BRITISH FLAG INSULTED. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) 4^ NEW YORK, March 28. A remarkable incident occurred at Boston during the festivities in connecion with O’Callaghan’s visit to the city. Irish sympathisers pulled down the British flag flying at the borne of Doctor Ladd in the aristocratic district. Ladd threw tile trampled flag about bis shoulders and stepped out into the*®. street and challenged members of the mob who had insulted the emblem. The only answer was hissing. The d,octor returned home and bung out the flag. The mob surged toward the house but the police arrived before violence was committed.

UNEMPLOYED. LONDON, March 25. The unemployed increased, by 57,000 during the week and now total 1,375,400 of whom 912,000 are men. ARCHBISHOP MAMIX. ROME, March 24. Archbishop Mannix has arrived. He is staying at the Irish college. - UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. LONDON, March 24. Under the most favourable conditions, the Oxford crew rowed the full course in 19min 29secs. OUTBREAK OF PLAGUE. PEKIN, March 25. Famine is causing terrible ravages in Honan, Shensi and Chi-li provinces. There have been fifty thousand deaths from starvation in Shensi. Plague has appeared in Chi-li and typhus in Honan. GREEK ADVANCE CONTINUES. ATHENS, March 26. Smyrna messages report the continued advance of the Greeks along the whole front, the retreating Turks abandoning rich booty. TURKS DEFEAT GREEKS. LONDON, March 26. The Kremalist communique states that the Grejeks have been defeated by {he Turks, near Broussn, where ljsoo Greeks were captured. TURKISH LEADER. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, March 28 Mustapha Pasha lias arrived at the front personally to conduct Hie campaign against the Greeks. MR LLOYD GEORGE. PARIS, March 26. “Le Matin’s” London correspondent emphasises inconsistencies in Mr Lloyd George’s temperament, contrasting his attacks on the Labour Party in Britain ami his trade agreement with Russia, by which he helps to consolidate the s Soviet Government, which subsidises the British Labour movement. The correspondent interviewed two of Mr Lloyd George’s secretaries, who contended that the inconsistencies reallY demonstrated Mr Lloyd George’s adaptability and “supple Welsh genius.” One secretary added, “Mr Lloyd George never reads a book, but he is not the only Entente leader who knows everything without having learned anything.”