BRITISH FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1921, Page 2

BRITISH FOREIGN ITEMS

JUSIUALIAN AND N.Z. CABEE ASSOCIATION. CHOOSING A TEAM. A THEATRICAL SATIRE. LONDON, Aug. 13. The Test Selection Committee is annoyed by the performance of a, play entitled “ Choosing a Team,” at Royalty Theatre. Mr Foster (chairman of the committee) w rote to the management of the theatre:—l hear you have the impertinence to make light of the test-3 .matches selection committee. I have therefore requested the Board of Control to attend your theatre and find out anything which might give cause for a libel action. I hope for your sake it is not so, but if there is cause, it has been decided to place the matter in the hands of our solicitors, so I give you due notice.’ The actors responded with an invitation to both teams to attend the performance. TWO M.P.’s DEAD. LONDON, Aug. 15. Sir Edward Coates (Coalition Union:st M.P. for "West Lewisham), and W. Fv si non Wilson (Labour M.P. for Wtst Houghton division. Lancashire, are dead. FN'G LAND’S UNEMPLOYED. LONDON, Aug. 14. Thousands of unemployed at Sheffield' demonstrated against the inadequacy of the relief payments made them. They attempted to capture the Town Hall. The police used their trucheons on them freely, and dispersed the crowds, whH'. in retreating, smashed windows in the adjoining streets. A TEXTILE STRIKE. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) PARIS, August 15. Textile workers at Lille, *Roubaix and Tourcoing have struck against the employers proposals to reduce wages by forty centimes per hour with furthetae- - ductions of ten, in a few weeks. A few establishments are still at work. There are sixteen hundred strikers at Lille out of nineteen hundred employees. THE POLISH QUESTION. (Received This Dav at 8.30 a.m.)' PARIS, August 15. The League of Nations has invited Poland to send a delegate to the Council during consideration of the Silesian problem. Germany will he invited to become a temporary member of the League and also to send a representative. It is reported from Berlin that no negotiations are proceeding between Germany and Poland. The former continues to claim the whole province including the district in which there is an indisputable Polish major: ity.