BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

4CBIIULIAN AND N-Z- CABLE ASSOCIATION. N.Z. MEMORIAL. LONDON, Nov. 20 Sir James Allen unveiled a memorial ~t Walton-on-Thamcs, commemorating ihe fact that 27,000 sick and wounded New Zealanders were nursed in local hospitals. The memorial is erected at the entrance to the new thoroughlarc called the “New Zealand Avenue. the exiled. FUNGAL (Madeira) Z,ov. IJ. Ex-Emperor Karl and Zita ant c n dren were received by officials, British Consul. A local hanker Offered his house for' their summer residence, and also a motoi-cai.

legionaries stories. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m) MADRID, Nov. 20. Fiftv-thvee British Legionaries and many * ex-officers from Morocco are cienting a sensation by relating hardships suffered. They refused to =ign on for service again. They complain that thev were served with verminous uniforms taken from corpses. The equipment was clothed with blood. No latrines were provided and punishment was most severe. Men were compellec to run the gauntlet, being beaten with ramrods, or sand hags were strapped on their hacks all day. One mail was sent into action with his elbows strapped to bis sides and when unstrapped he was soon despatched with a bullet.

SOUDAN FIGHTING. (Received This Day at S.-30 a.m.) KHARTOUM Nov. 20. Later advices of the fighting at Nijalt. Southern Darfur, show after the death of European loaders, the native officers defeated and drove out tho rebels and occupied the main defences.

STINNES ACTIVITIES. (Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON. Noveml>er 20. It is reported at Cardiff that Herr Stinnos is endeavouring to revise his pre-war business in Welsh coal. It is Understood a considerable rjuantity was recently fiought on account of sitinnos concerns. Several cargoes wore sliipped to Italy to depots which Stinnes controls. AUSTRALIAN ACTIVITIES. 'Received This Bay at 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 21. Mr Ashlmlt addressed a meeting oi tho British AVomen’s Patriotic League on women’s political industrial activities in Australia. He stressed tli> difficulties of getting domestic help in rural districts. He urged womenfolk to accompany emigrants to Australia. They must make rural comti tions more attractive by finding par tic improved land, for which payment at the lowest rate of interest to bo extended over twenty to thirty years During the first couple of years the ot-t should not he charged against the individual. but be divisible between the Attislrnlian and British Government.* If was better that men lie paid for work in Australia in the interests o': Empire than collecting doles l'rojn in employment benefits in England for ri" work.