BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

CABLE NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. 1 WOMEN PROMINENT. ' (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) j LONDON, June 18. j Women are again prominent in today’s Cambridge tripos lists, securing five first class honours in history, three firsts in part two of olassics, whil Girton College heads the entire law list. ’ | A DIVORCE SUIT. I 'Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) j NEW YORK, Juno 18. | ; Frank Boulanger, a wealthy resident J of Kansas has filed a petition for di- : < vorce against his wife, naming Demp- ! < sey, the heavy-weight champion as co- 1 respondent. Dempsey denied that he i had ever met the persons concerned in : the divorce. - * INDIAN PROBLEMS. (Received This Day at 8.40 a.m.) 1 DELHI, June 18. t Government’s military requirements f Committee invited tie extremists in- s eluding Gandhi, to give evidence but • they refused. This caused surprise in fi view of the extremists avowed intention to smash the military system. The All 1 Indian Congress Committee met and < r passed a resolution advising soldiers to t refrain from helping the British Go- t verninent in war against Angora, should t hostilities commence. c v AFRICA’S MANDATE. ' (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) 1 Capetown, June is. t The Assembly is discussing the man- c date for south-west protectorate, Mr Hertzog said the report of the Lorn- ' mission gave the impression that the 5 mandate was nothing more or less than c annexation, which he denounced as a c scandalous international fraud, to which 1 he would never consent. Asked if the Germans had the right to refuse to become citizens of South African Union, the Acting-Premier explained that the inhabitants were no f longer German subjects, and under the treaty were no longer citizens of any nation. They could not become citizens of the Union except at their own request. Government had no intention I of using compulsion. The Minister of Justice explained that the mandate made it quite clear that German possessions had been su rendered to the Allies and the Associated Powers, not to the League of Na- v tioils. The powers had absolute right to repatriate every German subject, s They had no status under the treaty and no where in the treaty was it contemplated to give them the right of self-determination. He admitted there e was not much difference between these pi provisions and annexation for practical 1 purposes. ti