CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1921, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

BRITISH i FOREIGN ITEMS. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A STALEMATE. LONDON, Sept. 13. The Foreign Office lias received information that both Turks and Crooks are exhausted and unable to advance. The Turks laid depended mainly on supplies of arms and gold from the Bolsheviks who despite asking the Allies for forty millions sterling, seemed to have plenty oE money for propaganda purposes. They had sent large quantities of ammunition which enabled the Turks to continue their resistance. On the other hand, the Greeks are handicapped by Britain’s embargo on munitions going to either side, liiitain is not prepared to mediate until both sides are ready to accept the previous offer of mediation, which they had refused. THE KAISER. LONDON, Sept. 12 Mr Hunter (Australian Agent-Gen-eral t has returned to London after a visit to Holland. He visited the town of Hoorn, where the Kaiser is located. He says lie did not meet the Kaiser, although the Dutch authorities offered him facilities. He denied that the Kaiser is surrounded by barbed wire entanglements. He apparently is tinrestricted. NEW LADING RILL RULE. LONDON, Sept. 13. Mr Hunter (Agent-General! lias returned to London, and confirms Mr Asliholt.’s optimism regarding the results of the European M..uitime Conference recently in Holland, lie said he hoped a new Bill of Lading would he introduced early in the new year. BRITISH CROWN COLONIES GROUPING PACIFIC ISLANDS, i LONDON. Sept 13. A -'1 imcs’ * special correspefudent writes: The Colonial Office is considering a scheme for tlie reorganisation .-.f the administration of the Crown Colonies and protectorates, designed to give them a greater amount of autonomy. The main proposals are a grouping of the various colonies according to their geographical position, under a High Commissioner, who will shoulder .some of the duties and responsibilities especially regarding public appointment sand finance, which now devolve on the Secretary of State. It anticipated the change " ill insure an important saving in expenditure. The various grouping include tho placing of Fiji, the Falkland Islands, and all other Crown possessions in the pacific under a High Commissioner,

stntiom 3 *! J*t Suva. These High Commissioners kc given complete control of the Imperial military forces, as well as tin- local volunteers within their jurisdietion. They will he assisted by a Council consisting of members partly elected and partly nominated by represntative electors or vested interests, such as commercial. professional and agricultural classes. The privileges and prerogatives of tiles,, li.iv,. not yet been dicided. Native races will find respresentation thereon. Although the scheme is still in process of evolution, it is believed the main principles will he along the linos mentioned.

j SIX CROWN COLONY GROUPS. ] LONDON, Sept, 13. | It is announced that, desiring to meeting the Crown Colonics’ repeated requests to the Colonial Office for a. greater share in the control of local affairs, especially financial, Mr Winston Churchill proposes to create six groups of Crown Colonies according to geographical positions, each group to be administered by a High Commissioner, assisted by a Council partly elected and partly nominated by vested interests The High CojmmMsioner of the Pacific Group, including Falkland Islands will he stationed'at Suva. , TURKISH PLOTS. LONDON, Sept. 13. I The "Daily Telegraph’s’" Constantinople correspondent states that the | discovery of a new plot against the 1 Allies might suggest that Constantinople is the centre of a revolution, but really, complete calm reigns. The Allied occupation is universally accepted, and is bearing lightly on the population. General Harrington, however, owing to a fresh conspiracy warns the population that such intrigues may bring a more vigorous application of the 00- ' ciipation. Harrington has given the . Turks a week to hand over the suspects for trial by the Allied Court. | MILITARY EXHUMATIONS. LONDON, Sept. 13 The Imperial militarists proposed to discontinue the exhumation of bodies in France last March, but, yielding to pressure from the Dominions, agreed to continue till September. Each month fewer identifiable bodies were recovered because the means of identification I had decayed. < It is considered that the position J would be no better if a discontinuance ' were postponed till two years hence, except that identification would be increasingly difficult. A suggestion that civilians should receive a bonus on each ' body recovered, after the military withdrawal, failed to obtain the approve! of tile Dominions. The War | Office is pledged to the French Gov- | eminent, to clear the battlefields at 1 the earliest possible date, to enable civil reconstruction to proceed. Hence the desire to discontinue as early as possible. The Commonwealth authorities state the Australian fatalities were 45,000. About 32.000 bodies have been recovered, including 26,500 identified ones. Six thousand were reinterred in cemeteries unidentified, j leaving 12,000 still missing.