BRITISH" FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1921, Page 1

BRITISH" FOREIGN ITEMS

AXJSTItAUIAN AND N.Z. CAIII.E ASSOCIATION KN PI.OITINH GERMANY. LONDON. Nov. 2.'1. Sir Peter Hylands, addressing the Et-dcraLion ot Hritisl, Industries. admitted that Germany could pay the reparations by means of exports, but it meant her cumjK’ting with Hritisl, industries, lie suggested, thcjeloie, that Hritain ought to control the classes of (ionium goods acceptable. She ought to force Hermanv, in conjunction uith her Allies to build inilwnys, docks, and harbour works, in umlevelojied countries, under Allied control, normally also ought to he forced to build super-power electric stations for Hritain at Hermany’s own expense.

HERMAN MONARCHIST COIP. LONDON, Nov, 2d Act ording to the "Morning Post's” jjerliu cor, espo,,dent. Ilt*r, Muuncke ( . . ~| the Eati-Ge, man League) s|kiog iu the Gorman As'cmbh . said that a niou.irhist coup was intended a f,,ri,light ago l.y the proclamation ol prince iluppercht as King ol Havana. It nas abandoned, he said, at the last moment, owing to Rnpprecht’x peree>)t i, i, Gup. the present time was unprupi ini,' for such an event. The Pan--0c,,,,:,u press denies this.

ANOI.O-AEHIIAN TREATY. LONDON. Nov. 2tl All Anglo-Afghnn treaty lias been ni .-.icl at Kabul. It rc.-iltli mis tile indopendomo of Afghanistan, and ar-rai-.'cs lor an inteieliange of Ministeis at Kaluii and London, with 1 oils,dales in India and Afghanistan, while the frontier demarcated in 1010 has been accepted by the Afghans. No I untie subsidies arc to he grouted to the Amir, who is alieadv accepting them iron, tlie Holshcviks.

The Am it undertakes not to permit ;i„v Bolshevik Consulates to he set oil the Indian frotiior. stands, the duration of provisional re--crvnt ioii®is not limited. Sonic members ol tlie llou-c tried to limit the powers of the Minislc, I'm Lands in regard to I hey :llgued that wasteful destruction of lorcsts was likelv to continue if the Minister retained the deciding voice, since his corn-fill Wii- piimnril.v lor settlement. The experts of the forest Department were men really qualified to sav what land might to bee perman-

ent State forest. 'Tbe Minister I'm Lands apparently was not impressed. He insisted that lb,, provisional State finest w:i- really ordinary Crown land, and that the l’ ! '"- vi-imuil icsei vat ion had been subject lu |,i_ ,-,..) 1 1 tn icsiune the land, and that ( |,c claims of settlement must take precedence.

Tbe amendment was defeated decisively and the hill was completed in ( mnmit tee after midnight.