BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1921, Page 1

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

iUSTKAI.IAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. LORD CURZON’S SPEECH. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2b Lot'll Curzon’s speech warning France of tlie dangers of individualistic policy was widely published in America today. hut questions as to the impression made on the various delegates remain unsatisfied. Tiie soberer view is outlined in the Now York “Tribune's” comment, that Lord Curzott is at the sorry business of adding fuel to the flames of AngloFrench wrangling, encouraging Germany to think the Allies are quarielling among themselves.

ROYAL betrothal. LONDON, November 26. Princess .Mary, who is to marry Viscount I-a see lies, is paying special attion to her trousseau, which is to l,„ an all-British one. At least a part ,i| it will lie made by widows and necessitous relatives of officers killed in the war. . During the early days of their marriage the couple intend to live at Gainsborough Hall, in Knarestiorougli. Th* Lord Mayor of Loudon is opening a citizen’s fund for a wedding

present-. It is expected the Provincial Mayors will follow suit. LONDON. November 2u.

There was a remarkable demonstration outside and inside the Hippodrome to-night, when the King. Queen, Princess M.irv. Viscount baspellcs. the Queen’of Norway, the Princess Victoria. the Duke of York, and Prince ITcn-,-v attended a “command” variety performance in aid of the variety artists Benevolent Fund. A SOCIALIST funeral. LONDON, November 20.

Representative Socialist organisations and Trade Unions, forming a procession half a mile long, escorted the funeral of tho late H. M. Hyndman. The coffin was drapod with the Red Flag. Mr dynes and Mr Will Thorne spoke at the crematorium, the assembly singing “The Bed Flag” als,, “England Arise.” and “The Marseillaise.” THE INDEMNITY. LONDON. November 26. The ‘Westminster Gazette” states:

“There is little doubt that theta have been important discussions in I/mdon on Germany’s financial position since Herr fstiimes arrived here. There is tittle doubt also that the British Govemiont have hism informed that if the present rate of payment is insisted upon. Germany, would default in the near future.

Herr Stintms is endeavouring to avert this catastrophe, lint the French were insistent on the fulfilment of the London ultimatum to Germany and on her payment of the January instalment Her St inues lias returned to German v BAD BOOKS. BERLIN. November 20. Thirty thousand penny dreadfuls and ten thousand volumes of questionable literature have been collected by the children of the working classes of Berlin for the purpose of I,in ning them at the stake

Mass meetings are now being held in all parts of Germany in connection with this campaign against bad books. Bodies of bey scouts are canvassing tho towns and villages and arc- exchanging good books for bail ones, which are then burnt. THE MANDATES. LONDON, Nov. 2ii

A .sub-committee ot the I.oamu- nl Nations Mandates Committee lui> had a rniiise ill' C niisullatiniis w ith i'• l err 1 1 Clin ihe miiiuiniliiies to hi- giicu to the inhabitants of the mandated territories. They saw Sit James Alien, Messrs Shepherd and Walton ' EndorSci ivtary lor the ( olonies). Il is n iitlei st ch )-1 tin- ( o,n I n 111 ee is “ratified at the British Empiie's firm adherence to the view that the inliabilauts ot Ilia inla led countries ought in take the status of protected pci-inis, and not the nationality id the niaiiilat.HA Powers. The latter term would support the idea that mandates only veiled annexation.

FR ANCE AND TT RE NY PARIS. N.iv. 21

There is a growing uneasiness ovet Hie l-'ieiieli-Aiiglua Turkish pact. The Ministerial m-w* papers "mlinuc In express annoy an, e al the British ohjurt lull*' tu ii • A tear elsewheie is expressed that the liasoii with Angora may p'-oe. in the long mil. as damaging to I'ianees interests in the Near I'list as il may pane to her lelatious with the Allies. M. Itibot. a foi in,-I Premier, al a senate committee meeting, seyetely 1-1 il ieiseil the inunuci in w hi. treaty had been arrived w;ls outside the usual iliploinalu- channels. The Foreign Aff airs ( Timmi l tee has decided 1,1 ask for the product ion of all the papers on the subject. Cl R/ON’S SPEEC H. NEW YORK, Nov 25.

M. Briand. French Premier, referring tu l.nrd (Tirzon’s recent sp<s*eli against hunt armanieiils on the Continent, said that he ( Brian, 1) preferred to depend on what Mr Balfour said at Washington than on l.«rd (Timm. FOR VALOUR. LONDON, November 2G.

tsliar Singh of the Twenty-eighth Punjnhs was awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in Wazaristan. in .April, |<l2l. lb- was severely wounded in the chest, and fell beside a Lewis machine gun. Hand to hand lighting coniincm-ed and all the officers were killed or wounded and the gun was captured. Tsliar got up and with two others, charged, recovered the gun, and got- it into action. Later when ordered into hospital, lie stayed to carry water to the wounded, making innumerable visits to the river, reminiscent of Kipling’s Gunga Din. While a doctor was dressing a wounded man. tsliar stood before the doctor shielding him with bis own body from bullets. The official account states that his conduct inspired all who saw him.

EUROPE’S RECOXSTR UCTTOX. LONDON. November 26. Kt. Hon. IT. Asquith, at a mass meriting of bils-rals at Newcastle, mid that there were three preliminarysteps needed for the reconstruction iff Europe. They were: Tho revision of the Versailles Peace Treaty: the cancellation of all indebtedness; and tlm removal of all the tariff walls. CANADIAN UNKNOWN SOLDIER PROJECT. OTTAWA, November 26. It. is announced that the body of an unknown soldier will Ik* brought from France and buried beneath the A ictorv lower of the Parliament Buildings.