BRITISH, & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 May 1921, Page 2

BRITISH, & FOREIGN ITEMS

CABLE NEWS.

tUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION., CRITICISM OF W. M. HUGHES. LONDON, May 30. The Right Hon. C. F. G. MasterVn Liberal Cabinet Minister and a inenibt r of the Asquith Cabinet; also a no,;a writer, discussing in the “Daily News,” the personnel of the Imperial Cabinet meeting. Mr Mastcrton says: “We all kn. \v our Hughes. His visit coincides with that of the Australian cricketers. Th- re probably is not one member of the Australian Eleven- whom the Butidi people would not have preferred a lave Mr Hughes as the Australian delegate. The ghastly mess of his last visit hero with all its combined truculence concerning militarism and tariff reform falls on a different nation now from the one he then lectured to death. Ho will be well advised to refrain from such utterances. He can fully occupy himself with his own desperate problem that of keeping the swarming Eastern races from the boundless and unoccupied continent to which, at the same time, no white races are being invited. If he endeavours to fill it with English settlements, lie will find the task impossible. If he trusts to the natural increase in English settlements he will be equally lost. If he believes that England is going to build a gigantic navy in order to protect an unoccupied Australia, then he is living in dreams. If he refuses to accept all white settlers whatever the; Eurjopean nation they belong to he will prove faithless to the great guardianship that was committed to his hand.”

Mr Masterton continues: “Mr Massey, with his big body and laugh, seems to embody his Dominions’ an interrupted prosperity and seems to incarnate its continuous growth its lack of serious problems, and its steady accumulation of material wealth.” DICTATION TO HUNGARY ALLIES WANT A NEW GOVERN- - MENT. LONDON, May 28. The “Daily Herald’s” (Labour) Vicuna correspondent states:—“The Allied representatives at Budapest have sent a Note to the Hungarian Government demanding Admiral Horthy’s abdication of the Premiership and the replacement of the present Hungarian Government by a Coalition representing all parties, which undertake to hold new elections immediately. The Allies also demand the dissolution of the Magyar Independent Organisations, which are demanding war and revenge; also that the present Hungarian National Assembly shall pass a law dethroning the Hapsburgs dynasty prior to its dissolution.”

BIG POWER SCHEME

PARIS, May 30.

THe French Senate has approved of a Rhone River hydro-electric scheme, estimated to cost sixty million francs, under which, by means of eighteen power stations between the Swiss frontier and the Avignon, one million horse-power will be developed. A quarter of it will be for Paris, and the remainder for the Paris-Mnrseilles railway.

ANGLO-JAP ALLIANCE

NEW'YORK, May 30.

The New York “Tribune’s” London correspondent learns that the AngloJapanese Treaty will he renewed in •July, though the question will he thrashed out at the Imperial Conference, before Britain definitely commits herself. The views of the Dominion Premiers will be communicated to Mr Harding and if he has any objections they will receive sympathetic consideration. The correspondent learns .that the Dominions have agreed with , the British Cabinet that naval reasons make a renewal of the Alliance necessary, yet American goodwill and cooperation are desired. Future moves regarding Japan depend largely on the latter’s views.