BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1921, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUS'IIULIAN AND N.Z. CAULE ASSUCIAHON. OBITUARY. LONDON, December 13. The death is recorded of Mr Richard Bagot, a well-known novelist. ROUMANIAN MINISTER RESIGNS BUCHAREST December 12. M. Take Jonescu, the Roumanian Foreign Minister has resigned. A LABOUR REPORT. LONDON, Dec. 12. A Labour and Trade Union delegation, representing 12 countries, who have )>een on a several weeks’ tour of industrial Germany have visited the former State arsenals, and munition factories. They did so to assure themselves that Germany has carried out the Peace Treaty. They report there has been marked demolition of buildings. Vast sheds have been stripped of their machinery the remains being piled into huge scrap heaps. Other machines nave been painted red, and are awaiting destruction. All the ponder magazines have been blown op and! any plant for the nmufacture of war material annihilated. The only machinery spared is that which is convertible to other uses, such as the making of agricultural machinery. motor bicycles, and typewriters. The Military- Commission, they state has done its work thoroughly. DEATH OF LORD HALSBURY. LONDON, Dec. 11 The death is announced of Lord Hnlsfeury, formerly Lord Chancellor, in his 99th year. ORDERED TO GET OUT. PARIS, December 9. The Ambassadors’ Conference has ordered the Jugo-Slav Government to evacuate the neutral zone in Albania. BOTTOMLEY’S BOND CLUB. LONDON, December HO. Horatio Bottomley haa written to the receivers of his Bond Club offering personally to contribute £lO,000 to enable the needy small bondholders to realise before Christmas.