BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

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. HJBTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. t • A DENIAL. I ' (Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) ! PARIS, August 11. j The Journal’s Berlin correspondent had tin interview with AVirtli who denied the French suggestion that Germany was attempting to drive a wedge between France and England. Such policy would only give Germany a provisional temporarily success. Ws want a policy of peace, not discord. AVe wish to realise our aims by the execution of ‘the undertakings we contracted for, and not by threats or intrigues. Germany would be able 1 to execute her undertakings ns new taxation schemes were intended to raise eighty thousand million paper marks per year. OBITUARY. (Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, August 11. Obituary—H. J. Gerritsen, the butter importer.

DESPATCHED. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON,,„August -1 j . President Harding’s formal still U the Disarmament Pacific Conference has been despatched to the various powers. IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) OTTAWA, August 11. Byng, was inaugurated as Governor* General of Canada amidst imnrcssive ceremonies in the Legislative Chambers Huge crowds cheered him on hi landing. t He was received by Premier Aleighen and a full Cabinet. 23,000 FEET HIGH. LONDON. Aug. II U hen a military aeroplane flying over Aldershot was at a height, of 20,000 feet, the observer’s oxygen pipe broke, but the observer pluekily refused to descend vsnyintr lie could jj;o smother foot. The plane then ascended to that height. V hen it descended, the observer was delirious, lie lias since recovered. JAPANESE COMPANY KAILS. TOKIO. Aug. 10. The Kuliara Trading Company, with a capital of ten million yen, founded in 1012, and one of the largest exporting firms in Japan, announces that it is dosing its doors at the end of August. Its liabilities ate mote Limn fifty million ' yen. The. company is a erhditor in foreign banks abroad, and therefore will net suffer loss. j PRISON MUTINY QUELLED. ‘ VIENNA. Aug. 1 I 1 a* ( Convicts itt --.etn prison, being dissatisfied with t ; te disciplinary meti- * sures, mutinied. The military suppressed the disorder, after tiling a volley, | ' whereby three prisoners were killed. | PRESIDENT HARDING’S CALL. < (Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) 11 LONDON, Aug. 11. |'• President Harding’s call points out jI 1 Jiat while naval armament is naturally | 11 .o have first place in the discussions, j P Jiti question of other armament will j lot he excluded. It may also ho ad- j .'isaldo to control new agencies of war- • i; are in its scope. Ear East discussions re undefined, hut will be the subject * if exchanges at the conference. *’

G DEADLOCK ENDED. A (Received Tliis Day at 11.30 a.in.) LONDON, Aug. 11. ( ' The Conferece of the Supreme Conn- J A , I \| . cil has ended the deadlock over Upper i * Silesia. 'The British representatives niy j returning to London forthwith. RACEHORSES RACED. | ! i: TO MISS TAXATION. | f * I f< 1 (Received This Day at 12.25 p.m.) j j VIENNA, Aug. 11 |° | The Taxation Commissioners levied i four hundred million kroner income tax I*’ upon string of Hungarian horses on-' | tored for the Austrian race meetings, ■ | and planned to seize the racehorses as R • security. The owners heard ol the plan S< j just in time to rush the animals in D | motor lorries over the Hungarian border j during night lime. Tbe Commissioners i> pursued in motor cars, but/the horses j reached the border first. j I AIR HUGHES. (Received This Day at 12.25 p.m.) I LONDON, August 11*. | m While Parliament was sitting, Mr ;1* Hughes addressed olio hundred mem- fn hers by invitation of the Empire Par- . ai liamentary Committee of Westminster , tn on the Pacific ipiestion. He set out tn the case from the Australians viewpoint is and also discussed the situation as j effecting America, China, .Japan and . their relation to Australia and dealt i with all the points fully, expressing 1 A( very great regret that the American Government had been unable to .arrange ; to hold a preliminary conference to i discuss Pacific matters, because with- j out a settlement of these points, dis- : armament was impossible. He explain- 1 ed the White Australia policy tracing the development of the sentiment and R, emphajsising the strong claim now 1 1 held as a national ideal.

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