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Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1921, Page 3

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BRITISH 81 FOREIGN ITEMS. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CADLE ASSOCIATION. SCOTCH STEEL WOE ICS. TN A DISMAL CONDITION. (Revived This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON. Sept. 21. The Central News Agency tells a dismal story of the condition ot Sottish steel makers, who under hot tin ment pressure during the • uneconomic, extensions o Pan s ji/tf. result that they are now produ(in„ jCTI-, heavy loss. The selling price of " steel plates is £4 under ; would close down altogether > l o< the danger of losing trade co ll ections Ninety per cent ot the Sc cl, tee workers are unemployed, the » running at only twenty per ecut of the T he"position by French firms purchasing owned steel works ,n L a compete. The position is I n» " 01 * also by the fact that Aurt... Japan, which were fornmil^ ScoUam customers hare hml 00ndiworks. Experts prophesy that eonm tions will continue lor fi\c >ca ..

AN INVENTION. (Received This Day at 5.30 am) LONDON, Sept -’1 Tliere is a probability of an Engl,s i Company being formed .» with Hammond’s visible pe and Rrierley’s meter, wh* a c t first machines to receive the Beam Trade’s approval and stamp-

\ REPORT DENIED. LONDON, Sept. 21 ed or invited.

FRENCH FLOUR COMBINE. (Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) PAULS, Sept. 21. The “Matin” states an influential miller is forming a combine ot the principal French flour mills, with oH }; wiOi fhe.helpoMln competitors' in ll? °Fre„cl, market.

balloon rale. LONDON, Sept. 21 .Ml fourteen balloons are 1 V-Vn«loH fnr. The Switzerland winner pear Dublin.

LUDENDOREE’S PEARS. (Received ThisDaynt^eKlaanO Count Lndendorlf the “Matin” sanl a ... ~( . e was impossible Lon, t . hidefiuite military technique. b» ■ is period. The question ol tlk mi whether the peoples m E«‘" , l" ' Q“ , ~ if lieu IS lllipossinu . l,le of Europe. U tn. > . > • imiigeroits than supposed, lh--ui early revolution.

mandates in dispute. GENEVA. Sept. 20. During a, discussion regarding A- ; at Mandates by the Council of Hit £»£ Of Notion., Lord «**«<*£ OoninoM fl.nl U *» .''"'r'J'ATA o’ wait longer for the United State., aEor views were now fully known Mr Fisher strongly opposed this. saving that mandate negotiations were , goino on between the United . tat and England, and hart now reached a - delicate point, where any action l.j Council would embarrass Englan . I.ord Cecil therefore withdrew In* proposal. POUT AUGUSTA EIRE. (Received This Day at 1.30 !••»<.) CAPETOWN, Sept. -1 A wireless message received states the fire on the steamer Port U.gusto hound front New York to Fremantle. - started eighty miles from Capet iwu.. The captain reported that though >c position was serious, he was not >" need of immediate assistance. He is making for Capetown, with all speed. FRONTIER TROUREE. < Received This Day at 1.30 p.m.) DELHI. Sept. 21. Rebels were heavily defeated 0,1 Monday in Manerhi district. Outrages have practically ceased e.xeept at Nilamhar and Pandalur where the rebels have concentrated. Native stales bordering the disturbed areas apprehending trouble, are rising citizen jinnies. LABOR DISSENSION. <Re-eived This Day at 1.30 p.m.) PARIS, Sept. 21. Dissension exists between moderate and extremist laliourites. The fatter favour adhesion to Moscow International. A meeting of the' national committee of the g.neral confederation of Labour resolutioned by 63 to 66 in favour „| comiKdling extremists to respect trade union discipline, a* defined at the recent Lille Congress alien a resolution was passed implying elimination fnom the Confederation of so-call-ed revolutionary syndicalist comnnttoes. , | ROUSH CABINET. I LONDON, Sept. 21. j The “Times” Warsaw correspondent Pomkowski has formed a new Ministry approved by Pilsudski. food train wrecked A food train from Ukraine destined for the famine stricken Volga was wrecked near KiefL Twenty-seven persons were killed and thirty injured. The accident is attributed to destruction of flic line by Petlura’s inslurgent bands. NOTE TO HUNGARY. (Received This Day at 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 21. The Ambassador’s conference has not r ye t dispatched an ultimatum 'to Hungary in, regard fo Burgcnland, hut it is understood the terms are practically settled. Hungary will he given ten to fourteen days to evacuate Burgenland, failing which the Allies will take the severest measures.