BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

adstiialian and n.z. cable association. RRITISH REPLY T<> FRANCE. Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 27 The British reply to the French Angora note is dispatched. It is understood that Fiance is asked to explain how her interpretation that the pact is a step to the realisation of a Near East peace, is arrived at. The British are convinced the pact is an obstacle to this result, hut they are anxious to he convinced they are wrong and suggest the Kemalists should he openly disillusioned that the agreement in any wav prejudices the Allies settlement with Turkey, hut France should consent to an immediate Conference with Britain and Italy to formulate the Allied settlement with Turkey.

BRITISH PROTEST. 'Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 2(1 It is announced in Loudon that in addition to Armenians and other Christians, there are a number of British missionaries in Cilicia who might bo endangered by the I'reiieh withdrawal under the Franeo-Keiuaiist agreement. The question of sending a British ship to remove them is under consideration. PARIS. Nov. 2(5. The newspaper "Figaro” declares such action would he neither peaceful nor friendly.

Bombay I!Hots. (Received This Dav at 8.30 a.m.) DELHI, Nov. 2(5 During Lhe re relit Bombay’ riots, the Fire Brigade dealt with twenty-nine meemliarv lires. They worked courageunslv under heavy stoning from not-

< i s. Three Unhoiiimodaiis were arrested at Bangalore on a barge of forcibly stopping a motor bus. A crowd followed them t» the police station, wlmre eight thousand demonstrated and became uuin sin sizable. r I Ik* militii r\ out and alter ineffective warnings, tired killing one and wounding five. The crowd Rich dispersed, hut later gathered again and became threatening. Police and military are now protecting shops, which are closed.

ITALIAN STU DENTS RIOT. ;Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 2(1 Advices from Turin state a eioud id students, excited hv press re|H>its of the statements attributed to M. Ini or at Washington Conference rc*inrdi"g the Italian army attacked the I'reiieh Consulate, smashed the windows and damaged the furniture. The police (lisptMSod the* students. The Italian Ambassador in Paris called on the acting Premier and expressed regret at the incident. \ Rome mis- age rcpmis l fiat tf"’ Foreign Miui-tcr received a telegram IScliaeuzer emphatically denying the report that M. Briand in committee ;ll i|,e Washington Conference had described the Italian Army as a moral wreck, as laid been telegraphed.

RUSSIAN HORRORS. ,Received This Day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON. Nov. 27

Sir Phillip Gibbs, in a message to the "Daily t'lirmiiele” frem Russia, says in ninny areas the -ccd own j s , not uearlv sullieient for next year s | i: ,, vest. 'The hospitals ill the fa mi lie area are practically without medicine. Disease feeds on ill nourished bodies, and graveyards go fat owing to la, k of fuel. The hospitals are over crowded sinl being ill ventilated, the stench is worse than that of battlefields with unliurivd dead. A few patients had bed coveiings. They were mostly women mid children. The nurses are hardly uit v heaUliier than the patients, but I hey stick to their task until they -ieken and die. Many nurses belong to the better class, who have been, dov,ad, d under the new regime. In Key.an ils,.]) there is not muel, sign id lauone. The opera is crowded every night. Soviet officers and clerks move about warmly clad and cheerful, h is only by going to the outlying villages lhai the great human tragedy is seen.

gpfkk workers corimiAKTIALLED. ATHENS. Nov 2d. Fiftv-five Labourites have bqei eourl-martialled on a charge of ellgin coring a recent si l ike among the opera Lot's of public utilities. Tell were sell turned to eight years’ servitude, am twenty-six to live years. The rest wer acquitted. CUR /ON SPEECH CRITICISMS. 1! KU 'IT. it’s tn i, no it Am s (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) PARIS. November 26. The newspaper “Gaulois” disciissiu Lord Ctirzon’s speech, says it mean that France cannot have a person: |i,,|j,v ailvwliere ill t-lie world, wliur Britain is interested.

•‘l.O Journal” declares l-oi'il I'lirwm’s policy in associating questions ol naval mill land disarmament merely risks the establishment of British heoemnny in Europe

BERLIN. November 20

Lord Curaon's speech is given , inence in the newspapers,, together with ii reproilnetion of E rencli ci'itiI oisms, hot Oerman comments are eon- | lined to a low Conservative organs. I which consider Lord Curzon’s reference : to a “'sabre rattling power at the heart !of Europe,” as a. warning to France. j i STICKE ON THE HAND. 1 CAPETOWN. Nov. 25. In eonse<|nenec of the dismissal of iv shift boss, 101 111 white miners have ceased work at the Johannesburg Crown mint's. Timm nro 1-I,(MM) natives a Hec tor. Tlie pumpmen have also withdrawn. The management has notified the strikers that unless work is resumed on Monday, all the other workers will he discharged, and the mines will he clowed down. NO OFNFRAT, ELECTION. LO^ON t . November 20. The ‘‘Sunday TliikJr” says tlioro will l>e no general election in 1021. It ’ is felt tliat the Premier’s presence in Washington is imperative. He will probably return in tho Now Year. , ‘ FRANCE READY. OTTAWA, November 2(5. s Marshal Foeb, in a speech, declared R that France was ready to disarm on j land and sea, when adequately agreed of her national safety.