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'• IUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. | ESMONDE CHARGED, i (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) j .OTTAWA, April 16. i A Magistrate at Vancouver commi't--3 ted Esmondo for trial on a charge of i' using seditious language. IMPERIAL LEAGUE. LONDON, April 16. Lord Derby, addressing the Junior Imperial League, said that conservatism was the backbone of the country, 1 and was always ready to take in new s recruits, new blood and new ideas. He • welcomed Hon Lloyd George as the s newest recruit to their party. e ■ BRITAIN PAYING OUT. > WASHINGTON, April 17 t The Treasury announce that Britain l has paid twenty-five million dollars on 3 account of her silver debt. e DROP IN SHIPBUILDING. (Received This Day at 1.5. p.m.) LONDON, April 17 Lloyd’s Register has disclosed a 1 great slump in shipping construction. 1 Owing to the fall in freights and : strikes, work has been suspended on many vessels under nay. Compared with previefus years, the tonnage launched for the quarter ended December last, decreased by 146,000 and tho tonnage commenced by 113,000, while the tonnage projected but not com- ; menced, fell off to the extent of 75 per i , - ■ - --- - - cent. ATTITUDE OF HAYSAHI. j THE GAUNTLET DOWN. , j (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) ! TOICTO, April 17 [ I Count II ay ash iis quoted as saying I I that Mr Harding can hardly have con- | sidered the possible consequence of his j attitude regarding the \ap mandate. " ! The raising of the question makes it j impossible for Japan to carry out ner ’ | plans to withdraw her naval adminis- * j tration and substitute a civil one ' 1 throughout the mandate territory. Nothing is certain regarding the En- ! Unite attitude, but whatever decision is ' reached, he hoped .Japan would not ’ accept it unless it favoured the stand taken by her. j AUSTRIAN MONARCHY. VIENNA, April 17. • The National Assembly, by a majority of one, rejected a Bill of Edict against members of the Hapsburg lami ilj -
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1921, Page 3
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