BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

111.-TiIAMAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. GREEKS STILL ADVANCING. tßeceived This Day at 9.40 a.in.) ATHENS. S«pt. A communique states the Greeks tont inued to advance, lighting beyond Gordiiini. and occupied the fortified hue at lloladji-l ’ihlizdag while eastwnnl of tbe fortified line Tiinborogln was captured alter fierce lighting at close quarters, lasting a night and ti day. 'lhe advam-e continued in the direction ol Mount Ardig. CHOICE FOR CONGRESS. 'Re.-eived Tills Day at 0.40 a m > LONDON. Sept. 3 The “Oh-erver" does not expect i'll! appreciable uplift, or decrease ill eii'Mriployinent before next June. The cal cure lies in the discovery of. essential co-operation amongst those engngr-d hi production. The t>ai»‘r urges the. Trade Union Congress next week to seize the opportunity. The immediate problem for British industry is how are we to sell our goods abroad. Tf the Cnnpers can bring about some interim pact or truce between capital and labour It will (If, more for the happiness of the workers than any I’arliament.

OBITUARY. (Received This Day at 9,10 a.m.) LONDON. Sept. 3. Obituary. Nat Robinson, the famom jockey, in the nineties. CLEAI l-'NCEA U'S I’OI.ITK'S. (Received* This Day at 1.5 p.m.) LONDON. Scptcniher I. Tin- -Daily Telegraph’s” Paris cor rcspoiidctil states C'lenieiuvan's inten tion of vtnrnitig to politics arc imli rated hy his intention of comim-miit" a -fiew-snaper when Parliament meetwith Afandel Ignaze and Tardinn awriters, ft is being much discussed and it is hinted there will he att.-iek-against Al. Rriarnl in association with Af. Poineait-e. FRENCH INTENTIONS. ('Received ‘Phis Day at 1.0 p.m.) PARTS. Aland. 4. Roiinev.iv. .Minister nf .lilstiee ill a speech, said France has no liirtluT intcrests ill tin* decisions nf tile launzig Court. Stic would not give up the pursuit of justice and would not allow foreign international interests to influence her decision to bring the culprits to task. GERMAN ECONOMIC STRUGGLE. (Received This Day at 1.30 p.m.) LONDON. September 4. The “Daily Chronicle's” Berlin rorrespondonl states the coal owners and miners negot(iatioi)* have b-eaclied a deadlock. From the whole country came reports nf higher wages demands and rejected offers, and a few slight lints, all due to the advancing cost of living. Things are working up for an economic struggle which will soon assume the volume of a national movement. Tin- basic trouble is the Government’s agrarian iiolicv. under which it delivers grain at low fixed prices, ujiicli have been reduced because farmers arc able to sell the hulk of tli produce af. higher world prices, the Food Alinishv being compelled to bring its supplies up hy means of purchases of dearer grain with the result that bread has gone uii from five to seven marks per loaf.

TIIK I'XEMPI.OY.MEXT Ori'NTIOX A MOST SKIUOUS PKOW/EM. (Received This T)av ;ll S..KI ii.ni.) I.OXDOX. Sept. 1 Tilt" press lakes :i grave view of unt*nll>li>yfm<mi<. The "Sunday Times" regards lliis (jiieslion ns pressing us Ire--1 1:i 11(1, mid likely ti> engross Ihe ntlen--1 t ion el Oiihinet m Inverness in uddi- ' linn In the Irish reply. Unemployment I nniv neeessitme tin' reassembling of I t’.irlinment In deni with the incrensingIv urgent nml alarming sitmilinn he- ' fore the winter sets in. There me ! one nml n hull' millions unemployed in I England. "It is nn nnpnrnlleleil prnhj lem menacing tis with n wider nml | deeper s<-:> of misery than ever known. ; The situation must end nr it will end 1 us." 1 The "Sunday Times” and other jonr- ; mils n e rnneerned ns to where the | reinedv lies. It is generally agreed : that the dele system must no and lie replan d liv a const motive policy of ■ rel' i' work', tinl ll.e root of the prohlem is that the finance.-. are impoverished mid overt used. The counlry cannot stand arhlit imuil taxation, hut the. "Observer” hlunllv declares that money must 1.0 found. The com inn winter will 1 est the whole strength of the representalive system. The newspapers | agree that palliative measures are a temporary expedient. The only veal , remedy lies in a revival of British Made, and unfortunately there are little present signs of this.