BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

CABLE NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. . A BURMESE BOYCOTT. This Day at 12.25 p.m.) DELHI, August 15. A meeting of the General Council of Burmese Associations decided to effectively boycott all European goods. AFRICAN RAILWAYS DEFICIT. (Received This Day at 12.25 p.m.) CAPETOWN, August 10. A circular issued by the railway administration states the deficit for the first quarter of the financial year is six hundred thousand mailing the accumulated deficit over three millions. Government proposes to introduce short time in preference to general retrenchment and also to revert to longer hours in the case of certain grades, where the work is not of an extensive character. It. invites the Unions delegates to discuss the osition with the minister. LUDENDOIIFE BREA OUT. (Received This Day at 12.25 p.m.) BERLIN, Aug. 15 Count Ludeiidorff reappeared at a pan-German demonstration at the opening of the commercial fair at Konigsberg, and made a strongly militaristic speech. He described himself as General Hindenburg’s representative and member of the old army, whose spirit should permeate the new times. Other general «poke in the same strain. SILESIAN QUESTION. WARSAW, Aug. 1L The Upper Silesian decision of the Allied Council has not been warmly received in Poland. When special y assembled, the Polish Cabinet decided to send a Note to the Allies declaring that their reference of the problem to the Lemmo will he to no purpose. It "ill only" prolong the conditions of uncertainty in Upper Silesia, and is eMc - lated to cause Poland irreparable h.um.