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Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. UMR MAX AXXIKTY OVHI Sll-KST-A LONDON, October 11. The London “Dail Chronicle's” Kerliu correspond'tnt 'reports: • f ’lhere is great uneasiness atSho AVilhelmstrasse regard ins l-pper Silesia. A ' feeline prevails that any improvement in reiations lwtwren Germany ami her ► neishhm.rs is about tn he nullified. Herr AVirth, the Gorman ,1 remier V has returned unexpectedly to Heilm. and he held a midnight meetms of the Cllbiinet regarding Silesia. Another meeting took place at eleven next morning, and a third in the evening. It Germany loses more than the districts of I’less and lt.vl.onik. the result will be fatal to the AVirth administration and it "ill resign. Amicable relations between Germany and the rest ot E"rope will then be impossible for generations. 1 Count Slimmer, the German Ambassador at London has been instructed to inform Britain .that serious results vid follow the partition of the Silesum industrial region. A “A’JCTOHY BOND’’ CLUB.

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LONDON. October 11

\ sensational criminal libel suit lias been opened at tl.e How Street Court, (treat crowds were outside. Some hooted and some cheered Horatio Hottomlev the newspaper owner, who In prosecuting Mr Reuben Bigland on a charge ol' selling libellous pamphlets broadcast in the streets of London. The pamphlets allege -‘that the arch rogue. Bottomlev, has become the fuses sor of nearly a million of money through his “Victory Bond" Cluh. Sir Earnest Wild appeared on 1 half of Horatio Bottomlev, and <’cnied the statement's contained in tK> pamphlet. He alleged tlifit Bigland had for five years been attempting to ©xt-ri money from Bottomh'.v. enlmimiting 111 Bigland forcibly entering Bottoiilley's flat at Kingston at seven - o'clock in the morning and asking for £OO.OOO Sir Earnest Wild said the public had subscribed £1.50,000 to Bottoiilley’s Victory Bond Club, of which CA50.000 had been returned to tile public. Ibis was after the value ol his W ictory Bonds fell from So to 75 per cent. Of this, he claimed Bottomlev had found £35,000 out of his own pocket in order to pay it back to the s’l-rribcrs. Bottomlev was in the witness box. He supported Wild's statements.

BENZINE EXPLOSION. SEVA. October lL>

The auxiliary cutter Tuivunbaii. owned by Morris and Hcdstrom. is complete loss in Suva harbour, as a result of u htiuzinc explosion. Two ol the crew were sent to the hospital.

HIUTISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION. 1 PRINCE OE WALES DESIRES. (Received This Bay at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oet. ILL The Prince of Wales had an enthusiastic reception at the Mansion House meeting, in connection with the British Empire Exhibition. This is his lust appearance in the city, prior to his departure on his eastern tour. Alluding'to his previous tours, his Royal Highness said his Overseas experiences were very fresh in his mommy. He had learned everything there from personal interviews. He had been greatly struck by the unanimity, wii which the Dominion Premiers had welcomed this great Imperial prospect, lie shared the vein of optionism which ran through the speeches made by Mr Hughes and others hist July ; also their undercurrent of anxiety that we. in this country, should he fully alive lo what Joseph Chamberlain once called our vast undeveloped estates.

The Prince added: “What we want to do, is to teach the people that the Umpire, which was worth dying Tor, is worth living for, and working for/’ He referred feelingly to the question of unemployment, and offered- a practical suggestion that work on this Kxhibition should he commenced immediately, thus giving immediate employment to thousands, who had already served their country well. The Prince concluded by appealing to hanking and commercial interest to guarantee a million which could be used in the constructional work ot exhibition. The Dominions were already doing their part, and it would he a sorry tiling if we here could not do our share. Nothing would send him on his way rejoicing more than the knowledge that this problem of guarantees was being tackled, before lie left. KEPKEKKXTATION. (Received This Pay at 1.0 p.m.) CAPETOWN, Oct, 12 Government is considering the question of representation at the Washington Conference. Present information indicates that it is unlikely South Africa will he represented.

WHOLKSALK ARRKSTS. (Received This Pay at 1.0 p.m.) DELHI, Oct. 12. Tlie Persian Government is making wholesale arrests in connection with an amazing plot devised hv .Moshar A linn lk, War Minister, against the Prime Minister, and Riz A khan M ossa r, who had escaped from .Mesopotamia.

C'HITICISINC. LONDON. Oct. l-J l.ord Robert (Veil in n letter to. the press, supports Lord orev's criticisms of tlic Government. He soys we wont :m administration with a clear, definite programme to pursue an even way undisturbed by passion mists of popular excitement. He sun K ests that Lord Grev is the man to lead such an administration Hon Cecil is piep.ucd to co-operate with him. and he urnes all others that think similarly to jo'” in the effort to restore Hritain to the administration which nice her security

•iml command finance. BEK GEN LAN 0 TMSPI TK. (Received Tliis Day at 1 ."> p.m.) HOME. Oil. !•’ The Italian Guvormnent having intervened in tiie Bergenland dispute, the conference of delegates from Austria and Hungary met at Venice to adjust the ..situation. The Austrian delegates stated they were not autliorised”to conclude an agreement until Hungarians evacuated Bergenhmd. while the Hungarian Premier demanded the town of Ordenburg as security for the pavment of five million kroner.