RRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1921, Page 3

RRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

»ve v 7 CADLE ASSOCIATION. AUSTRALIAN AND N .A. J'IMCK OK STKKU (Received This Day at W-O 1 ' 1 "') LONDON, Oct. 19. English steel manufacturers have reduced prices by 70s per to. . d ; S, o tish by 30s. latter are ' -a,^ lv half those ruliufl in •)■> >;' 0 ; is|l still only 25 per cent .1 * • steel' workers are employe ; a.ul < fifteen Scottish furnace* a.c out of H2.

POLAND’S APIMIOVAL. t i i r\m mu men toil with the Poland has voniiminu.uy A"--r;;:;,;:,. i„ executing the economic tetonunen dation. \ STAMP COLLECTION'. (Received This Dav at 12. - -> p.m.) (Heanetl lnH is Oct. 19. Tlif miction of tl.MjJfg™** stamp collection. • ( f((v a Mntitispent half « *•» nut sen up buT'u E^lch'oolvrndurmg the Rai am 11 K j claimed luent con hsc a ten L - am i c»nort.™ 'gfjsz** «»-• tury.

MINERS and \\ ALES■SoVCII tl»»*>»l """" TT “V c...,LU Wales. Oitalsa S? j: * MhtiS'A-ciatio,, re,dyc pi.v ..negations ol had Luto ,„g to Smiths . S unahh’ to dec,hue some in continue to P* l > i • j, w;iS diHwu eWthe pits. f.-H.K.NCIA WOMAN'S MILLIONS. LETT TO TIIK POOR '.Received This Day at ll.»» » '-"f I’ABIS, Oct oh i I • When the executors opened tlm v. .11 of Mademoiselle Louise (.allien H’-’ discovered her entire fort..m' ot eig 1 ; million francs was given to ‘>k . children of Paris. ILr f»t l— ; ctislv gave ten million. >' was buried yesterday like a

treaty RATIKIKD. This Day at 11.90 *-tn.) NEW YORK. '>toi.<w. IP. The New York •Times” Washinglm, correspondent states the ratitieatioi, of the treaties with the Central 1 owe > was due to Democratic support. without which the Repuhlicaiis would not have heen able to secure a two-thirds majority. Fourteen Democrats meliidj„„ the leader, Mr Underwood, voted favourably. Mr Wilson's followers and others who favour the Versailles 1 leatv and league, fought a losing battle to the end. An amendment by Seiiat<ir King siibstitutiing tile A ersa tiles Treatv and League with Mr bodge’s reservations was tabled. Senator Read som-l.t to amend the Treaty by eliminating all reference to the Versailles pact. All amendments failed. A HERO’S FALL. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.A LONDON, Oct. 19. Sidney Dearne, a stoker who saved the ensign of the warship Hogue when torpedoed in the North Sea in September, 1914 was sentenced to a year for stealing Treasury mites at M eyed as a. cleaner. Dearne gripped the ensign in bis teeth and swam for two hours until rescued.

A COMPETITION. 'Received This Bay a* 11-30 a.isi.l LONDON, Oct. 19. Thu Institute of British architects is promoting a thousand pounds competition for Auckland’s memorial museum in honour of the heroes of the Great AVar. THE GERMAN MARK. LONDON. Oct. 19. The ‘Daily Express” Berlin correspondent states a group of Hamburg bankers have laid before the Government a scheme to create a now mark, valued at a shilling which will have the security of TBe State. This mark is only to be used; in paying for German imports and other foreign trade. Old paper marks are to remain in currency in Germany.

STATEMENT :IN COMMONS. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.l LONDON, Oct. 19. Hon Lloyd George in a statement in the Commons on unemployment, denied that the Government had done nothing. It had distributed under the Insurance fund forty-eight millions ster ling to the unemployed families. Government pro[>osed to ask for a further three hundred thousand for the settlement of ex-service men overseas. Hon Lloyd George added: There could not 1)0 any considerable trade improvement for some time and then 1 must be considerable unemployment. Relief work at best, was unsatisfactory smd doles .were worse. Government would amend the export credit scheme and extend it to all countries, including the British Empire. The Govern ment guarantee to exporters would be raised from eighty-five per cent, to on.

hundred. We are confronted with the worst period of unemployment known for one hundred years, 'flier was one and a quarter million unemployed. Tim greatest unemployment was in the metal trade. Tile whole cause could he summed up in one word “War.” There were possible policies, first to do nulling; second, for the community to do the best that restricted means would permit, to render such assistance a.s it could. No one seriously advocates tlm first course apart from the consideration of humanity. Government unhesitatingly recommended the second course. It, was untrue that so far the Government had done nothing. We all had been stigmatised as callous capitalists.