BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1922, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

AFRICAN STRIKE. CAPETOWN, January 10

The Miners’ Federation have made an unexpected overture for a settlement. Tip-night they asked Premier Smuts to call joint meeting of employers and the Federation to disclaim the question in dispute. The submitted basis on which the unions were prepared to discuss a settlement. This stipulates the withdrawal of employers’ ultimatum or notices, and that rio further reduction in wages be made until margin between assumed increase in the cost of living and actual increase has disappeared. They also asks for the adjustment of the coal miners wages on the basis of no greater reduction than half the amount that the employers proposed. In regard to the Goldminers dispute, they aek that the policy of replacing white workers with cheap coloured labour be departed from and a definite ratio of coloured workers to white workers be fixed. Stipulations are also made iri regard 1o power works object of settlement by mutual agreement

THE INDIAN EXTREMISTS. j DELHI, January 10. The rounding up of the Moplah rebels continues. An important leader and his follows were captured at Chakad. In a fight at Morayar, nineteen rebels were killed. The.'Extremist agitation is still rife in Calcutta, and numerous arrests have been made. Some of the leaders have been heavily sentenced at Allahabad. Many Extremists apologised’ openly, to The -a Government, promising to refrain from agitation in the future. They were consequently released. : A , RIOTERS SENTENCED. CAIRO, January 10. Twenty-seven rioters received sentences ranging from six to nine months the others .were ordered to receive twenty-five strokes each. JAPANESE POLITICS. TOKIO, January 10. When the Minister of the Navy’ returns, the National Defence Council which has not met for several years will be summoned to revise the Army and' Navy policy in the light of tie Washington Conference decisions. BUTTER MARKET. LONDON, January 10. The Australian Press Association ' understands that the butter position in London has greatly cleared. The new low retail prices have 'caused such a strong demand that the British Board of Trade has sold 500,000 boxes of the . Government stocks since the ‘beginning of the year, including 300,000 boxes of its New Zealand stocks, which are now entirely cleared. ' The remainder of the Home Government’s stocks consist of about 300,000 boxes of Australian butter of poorer quality. <■„