BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

i AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION j' FRENCH CABINET. _ (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) PARIS, Jan 22. S The “Echo de Paris” announces M. Poincaire is reshuffling the Cabinet. Rat thorn becomes Minister of War, Maginot, Minister of Pensions, M. * Raizerto Minister of Justice arid M; 0 1 Landry, Minister of the Navy. ®'- JAP POLITICS. ii ' (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) _ j TOKIO, Jan. 21. a ' The Kokuminto minority opposition . 1 party urged in the Diet a programme to ’ 1 reduce the Japanese army by half, reB gardless of results of the Washington Conference. e American lißipmng trust. ' 'Deceived This Day at 9.40 a.m.) { KEW YORK, January 23. The Pacific coast shipping interests ] have concluded an agreement whereby r j ea ch American port will participate in 5 the shipping pool to carry on trans--1 Pacific trade as a unit, for the benefit 3 of all of them. Negotiations Hid In j progress with United States Governj : ment for tho purchase of ships; [ \ A HEAVY FROST. J NEW YORK, January 21. I Millions' of oranges and lemons word j frozen on the trees in Los Angeles. . 1 it was the worst frost for nine years. Thirteen degrees of frost werfc recorded. SOVIET BUYS SHIPS NEW YORK, January 21. i It is officially stated that the Soviet Government has purchased eight , steamers, in Great Britain in the last i six months: A BANK ROBBED. LONDON, January 22. Bandits who roblwxl Edinburgh Bank blinded the clerks with pepper, and escaped on motor cycles, while the bank , staff were sneezing and coughing. L PARS, January. 22. Delegates are arriving from all parts of the world to. participate in the nonpolitical Irish Congress opening on the 23rd. Its objects are the i renascence of the Irish language, literature, traditions and art, thus reviving the national assembly which used to meet near Tara’s halls. One hundred delegates representing move than fifteen countries. Ireland’s delegation is beaded by de Valera, and Countess MhrkidvitZ: STRIKE ATTITUDE. (Received This Dav at 10.15 a.m.) CAPETOWN; January 22. After negotiations lasting all day the town Council of Johannesburg secured the consent of the Labour federation to use 750 tons of coal. This will ensure the lighting and water supplies for a week. Everything is quiet the men’s leaders exhorting their followers to observe law and order. A RAILWAY CRASH. PARIS, January 22. Owing to a broken coupling between the rear carriages, the Paris express collided with a Shantung engine. Four eollided with a shunting engine. Four passenger coaches were smashed and sixty persons injured. Fifteeii were sent to the hospital. WEEK-END POSITION. CAPETOWN, January 22. The week-end passed quietly in Jo- ! hannesburg. A feature was speeches by ; Nationalist leaders urging the miners ! to persist iu the strike and do every | thing in their power to support tho j Nationalists in sweeping the Smuts Goi vernment from power. These deelara- ' tions give a political aspect to the industrial position;