BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN I T EMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION LAYING UP SHIPS, 'deceived This Day at 9.40 a.m.y LONDON. Nov. 9. .Mr Hughes announced live wooden slops were out of commission and three' others laid up. Such a position was common in every country. A New Zealand Company had thirty vessels idle. MUNITION K.U TABLES. (IL-reived This Dav at 9.40 a.m.) jl LONDON, Nov. 9 tabled showing the Government proposed establishing a series .it munition factories in order that Australia he self contained in time of necessity.

SCOTTISH DEL KG ATI ON. (Deceived This Day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 9. A delegation of 20 Scottish tweed manufacturers will visit United . ales early in 1922 to investigate the possibilities of extending the sale of • <<> ‘ fish productions in America Trader. Who have lately returned Irom Uimnny give little hope <>l » rev "' nl " pre-war trade there, so a new ni.uktt must he sought.

EIIENCH PKKt'AUTIONS. (Deceived This Day at 10.15a.ni ) PARIS, Nov. 9. M Millerand presides at the Cabinet Conference to consider measures to safeguard Flench inteies "i event of the falling mars leading Cormaii failure. GERMAN MOVE. .Received This Day at 10.15 a.m ) BERLIN, Nov. 9. Government is suhinitting a bill the Reichstag to check excessive Ha - lation in exchanges. tporn is e tics for wild speculation and a bt.n> tax upon profits. THE BOTTOM I '-Y CA t; E (IHccived This Day at W-1.5 a.m ) LONDON, Nov. 9. The Magistrate vonimitlcd Bigland f- trial on a charge of li.o|. charge of attempting to iMort from Bottomley, Mr Ibnm. the ; - into said he was unable <" u Bottomley on his oath will- " the charge, lie did not bepoye that Bnttomley’H prosecution. im was an honest bona In. -‘ I'"”; ‘ “ therefore be dismissed it. hut he committed Biglaml on another emitg *

» .*1 . *ll pV .lii M11 fll v. • citing other neopl . > , He did this on grounds that tl.. > • g did not depend on Bottom e\ donee. Bail was allowed. mutisii “'"K,"""™.. •n» »-..rt ~r Ms Tintnrc Exhihitioii. covoimg I-' ■' ./ Voiuble, IM.h. will be .omnumeed v" tmOOO heads the list, ,'> 1 iverpool. Manchester, Leeds, • &Z*. Wolverhoiupton. VICTOR lAN T.O V DELAYED LONDON, Nov. s. It is understood that the Victorian State loan has been e,u porarilv postponed, m ant.eipa •<>" „ better market later on. , k\GUK COUNCIL MEETS. «Deceived This Day at IU.L> GENKA A. Nov •>. The Conned of nV SerbmAlbanir conflict.

JAPAN’S DEFICIT. Received Tins Pay at 10. In an, TOlxlO. No'- !>• The Finance Minister, Takahashi, has i omm - 1 ". «* gr * thirty million yen deficit for the p> sent year. FRENCH COU-VTKH-11I.AST. 41 LEG ED HHITISH-TLKKO SECRET TREATY. 'Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) PARIS. Nov. if. \s a counter-blast to the Hritish reproaches over the Kemaiist Pact. the “Matin” publishes a letter signed by Faller a member of the Challibei ol Deputies, asserting that Britain, unknown to France, signed a strut treatv with Turkey on 2nd Sei.tc.ntiei 10H)' The document was drafted } tii,. Grand Vizier and three British of ~j,ds one named Churchill, presumably AA'inston. The “Matin” ones the agreement textually. It consists «t eight clauses under which Britaui ottaran toes the independenco and intogrit> of Turkey under its mandate. Constantinople to he made the seat of tlw Khalifat, and Empire, while the Dardanelles is to lie placed under British control. Turkey agrees to the mdrpence of Turkestan, and guarantees material assistance to British domination of Mesopotamia, and Syria. Turkey also agrees that the Khnlijjnt’s inlleunco shall he exercised on Moslems in all countries in British favour. Britain consents to organise an armed force to uphold the creation of a semiC'onstitiitional Government in Turkey. The latter renounces all rights in Egypt and Cyprus. The statement adds that when the conditions of peace were fixed. Turkey undertook to conclude a secret treaty with Britain.

FRENCH REPLY TO CURZON. | 'Received This Dav at 10.15 n.nO ( LONDON, Nov !). The French reply to Lord Curzon’s | note has lieen drafted. It is calm in | tone. « MONTENEGRIN RISING. j ißo'oived This Day at 880 n.m.) i ROME. November 0. I Latest news from Albania is of ’.no ora vest. Montenegrins taking ndv.ni- | *tagc of the conflict between Serbia and j Albania, have risen in an effort to j throw off the Serbian yoke. A Montenegrin battalion seized Mount I owned, a position of strategic importance. \ FOSSILISED DISCOVER Y ! (Received This Day at P. 30 n.in.l LONDON. November 0. Interest in the discovery of fossilised skull in Rhodesia, which was forwarded to London, is intensified by the deda■irtion of Doctor Grafton Elliott Smith. Professor of Anatomy at the llnivcrsitv of London, that the skull belongs to the most primitive type of inaiikiml. a new species of a human family quite new to science.