BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1921, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ROY SCOUTS’ CHANCE. LONDON, Aug. 9 Sir Edward Shackleton intends interviewing eleven hoy scouts aged between seventeen and nineteen, chosen by Sir Baden Powell, with a view to taking one on his forthcoming expedition to the Antarctic aboard the “Quest.” ESPER ANTO CONFER ENCE. PRAGUE, Aug. 9 Two thousand seven hundred men .rl women delegates from forty national tics, including official representatives from Belgium, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Saxony, Ukraine, and Jugoslavia, are attending the Esperanto Conference. Doctor Nittobe, the League of Nations representative, said no international subject was more important than an international language. The abolition of war was their chief objective. He anticipated the period when peace seekers of all nations would find a common language. German Esperantists particularly warmly welcomed the Britishers, a gathering at the station cheering them en route. A national costumes ball formed a most impressive picturesque scene. EXPLOSK)N CASUALTIES. TOKIO, Aug. 9 Correction.-The casualties at the Kiuoshima explosion were 200, not 2000. STEAMER STRIKES ROCK. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9 The steamer San Jose struck rocks at A turn-ion Island and was badly holed. Sixty passengers were taken off in small boats. ALLIES AND FINANCE. PARIS, Aug. 9. The British, French and Italian Finance Ministers are conferring regarding the priority of Belgian debt, the price of coal and other financial matters that were not settled at the London Supreme Council meeting. HELIGOLAND ASKS INDEPENDENCE. LONDON, Aug. 9. The “Daily Chronicle” ‘Berlin correspondent reports that the Heligolanders* intend to appeal to the League of Nations for independence. They have memorialised the German public, stating that their conditions were satisfactory until the British handed the islands over to Germany. Then they were unhappy. When the Islanders returned after the Armistice, they found their conditions unhappier still. Their homes were spoiled, their industries ruined, new taxation was introduced, and German police and workmen had i: l ived, importing chaos. CHOLERA .MOVING WEST. LONDON, Aug. 19 The “Daily Telegraph” correspondent at Yilna reports: —Despite the strongest measures against the introduction of V infection from Russia, the Asiatic cholera is travelling westwards from Russia. Eight cases have already been coiiiirmed in one Polish frontier district. At the end of July there were j 130,990 cholera victims in Russia.

POLITICIANS’ BIG SALARIES. LONDON, Aug. 10 Mr Lloyd George, before leaving p England, intimated that the Ministerial salaries would he reduced shortly.

VNOTHER WAGE CUT. LONDON, August 9. Tin- Railway Unions oncerned have conferred with the Railway Company managers and have accepted reductions in the railway workshops, and skilled artisans Thp reductions ampunting to six shillings weekly. This coincides with the second cut under the Engineers Agreement. J There are 100,000 men affected. * KOBE STRIKE. SETTLEMENT. TOKIO, August 9. It is announced at Kobe chat the striking shipyard workers have decided to resume work on condition that the preliminary compromise settlement, giving the workers a- voice in the mechanical direction of the plants shall be made th e basis of further dismissions. APPEEAL FOR RUSSIA. (Received This Day at 10.15 a.in.) LONDON, Aug. 10 The Imperial War Relief Fund has issued an appeal, signed by the Lord Mayor, Archbishop of Canterbury and many notables, for help for Russia. The funds collected will he administer by the Rml Cross. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin cor- . icspondent says Lenin, in a disingenuous appeal for help, seeks to make it appear to the Russian proletariat that whatever help comes will be by the efforts of the International Proletariat, not by Capitalists. POPE’S APPEAL. (Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) ROME, Aug. 10. T! e Pope in a letter to the Papal Secretary of State, invited Christians of the world to help famine stricken Russia. A GREAT FIRE. (Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) WARSAW, Aug. 10 A great fire has occurred at Pinslc. Over three hundred houses and churches. ■ --» are already destroyed. Forests outside the town are also afire. A RUSSIAN HORROR; WARSAW, Aug. 10. Terrible stories come from Saratoff where parents are drowning children to save them from starvation.