BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

CABLE NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION, JAPAN GRATIFIED (Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, July 3. The Australian press learns that Japanese circles arc much gratified at the attitude of Australia and New Zealand over the renewal of the Treaty. Many leading Japanese regard the possibility of an Entente between Britain, America and Japan, its the host possible solution of the situation. There are some Japanese, however, who argue itow are we .going to trust America. She signed the Versailles Treaty hut ignored it and made her own peace with the Central Powers. We would want some guarantee for a changing administration to respect' her predecessor’s signal i! to„ A WARM APPRECIATION. LONDON, June 29. The' “National Review,” • iji reference to conference matters says:-—“Me may 1, ok for sense whenever Mr Massey speaks, and never fail !o find it. Wore there more melt of his temperament to the fore in Ihe public life Of the Empire the outlook would be brighter than it is. He was a valuable influence at the Paris Conference. The Treaty of Versailles would have been unrecognisably better had it been entrusted to M. Cleineneeau, Air Massey and Mr Hughes rather than to facing-hoth-ways Downing Street and highbrows from Washington. Air Massey was no more In ken in by President Wilson’s Longue ot Nations than was Mr Hugh’es. He had said in the New Zealand Parliament ‘When we hear so much about the League of Nations outfit st duty is defence of the Empire. If I thought that Britain by joining the league, had weakened connections within the Empire. T would say at once that the time had come to resign from the league and chi our best along with those countries we pro connected with.’ ”

“This,” says the “Review,*’ “is a welcome relief after the cosmopolitan slosh with which we are deluged by the League of Nations ( nioti. Our only hope for sane Imperial policy is 1 for men like Air Massey to assert themselves at the heart of the Empire.”

CANCER CURE. REUTKIt’s T ELKO it A MS. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, .ftiiy 1. Pathetic scenes were witnessed at a. West London hospital wjiorc the authorities recently announced successful cancer treatment. The hospital was bombarded wit’ 1 letters, telephone and telegraphic messages. Sufferers are ar,riling from all parts ot the countt\ Only a single installation for curative treatment is available, which is hooked for everv hour tor montlte ahead.