MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1921, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS

II'STItAI.IAN ANI) N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION A PRINCESS ESCAPES. LONDON, August 15. Princess Tataina Kourakin has arrived in Paris. She was imprisoned threw months in Russia. She escaped by pretending a “marriage with a Bolshevik, paying him 12,000,000 roubles to play his part A RUSSIAN DECISION. LONDON, August 16. A message from Riga states that M. Litvinoff (ex-Soviet Minister in London) has advised the American Commissioners that the Soviet will not allow any American who was in Russia during the Russian revolution to accompany the- relief organisations. ,lt i contended that this decision is due to the fact that the Americans 1 have been and know too much, and could not be deceived by Bolsheviks. A PARIS TALE. LONDON, August 16. It is reported from Paris that some Communist regiments are being dispatched to the interior of Russia with orders to shoot starving peasantry who aro trying to cross from one Government to another. THE WASHINGTON CONFERENCE. NEW YORK, August 15. The New York "Times 1 ' Washington correspondents says that tho State Department has been officially informed that M. Briand will head tho French Delegation at the Avamament Conference" Mr Hughes (Secretary of State) has asked Congress to appropriate two hundred thousand thousand dollars f<xr the expenses of the* American Delegation at the conference during the first two months. * Paris reports state that English will be the only official language at the Conference. -These reports are denied here. It is announced that French will be used for foreign exchanges of opinion. HUSH RMLWAYMEN. LONDON. -August 16. The Irish Railw.y Company’s directors and their workers have a wage dispute. They have now agreed to refer the present dispute, which has threatened a grave strike, to a tribunal. on which the directors and the workers are each to nominate five representatives. The Lord Chancellor is nominating 1 the chairman. ' GOMPERK’S VIEWS. . NEW YORK, August 15. Air S. Gompel's addressing an Internal ional Convention of Railwaymen and Carmen at Toronto, said: “The world is divided into two classes, the employers and the employees. There are no other classes and there can he no others. The day of th o master is gone never to return, and we don’t want if Men Ultimo grit your t-eeth and organise together. tVe don’t want a ratclysm in the United States or Canada. We shall mark out our destiny slowly, advancing epoch by epoch, bettering ourselves with the passing of the years.”