BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.

POPLAR GUARDIANS. LONDON, February 7. A deputation of unemployed, exasperated by Poplar Guardians refusal of the demand to levy a rate locked the guardians up for a night in the offices. •At 2 o’clock in the morning, Mr Lansbury appealed to the crowd to release the incarcerated pressmen. The rioters refused. Lansbury then said that if the officials were not released, he could not sign the necessary cheques to pay relief claims, at which the rioters sneered declaring the imprisonment would last until six. At four o’clock Lansbury, called the crowd cowards, declared the Guardians would not stand any further impudence and with his son Edgar, he broke through and rushed down the stairs, followed by a howling gang, who played a hose on the fleeing Guardians, the remainder of whom soon followed the Lanßburys. Two women guardians were imprisoned with their colleagues.

THIRD ARBUCKLE. TRIAL. SAN FRANCISCO, February 6. The third Arbuckle Trial is set down for March 13th.

TO CLIMB EVEREST THE NEXT PARTY. rettter’s telegrams. (Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, February 6. The Thibetan Government having sanctioned the forthcoming Everest Expedition, General Bruce has left fo r India, to make initial preparations, especially to organise a corps of Himalayan porters at Darjeeling. There will be six climbers in the expedition— Lieut.-Col. Strutt, Major Norton, Dr Wakefield, Messrs Mallory, Finch and Somerville. All are first class mountaineers. Dr Longstaff will act as doctor to the expedition, and Major Noel as photographer. All will reach the base early in May so that the final assault on the mountain can be made at the beginning of June when Everest is most vulnerable.

(Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, February 7

Speaking in the Commons Hon Lloyd George said our policy was to make France feel she was not isolated, and to make Germany feel a policy of revenge would bring all lands against her. He hoped to place the Egyptian questions before the House, after a confer ence with General Allenby. He depreciated rushing into the first quarrel between Craig and Collins. The Ulster -Free State boundary question would not be considered until the constitution was framed. Government would stand or fall by the Treaty.

A TRAGEDY. This Day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 7.

Louis Courtauld, a doctor and Barrister prominent in London social municipal work and a member of the famous silk manufacturing family, was found dead with his wife at his Chichester residence. The wife was shot and the husband’s throat cut. He bad been suffering from influenza.

ITALIAN CABINET. (Received This Dav at 10.15 a.m.) ROME, Feb. 7.

Signor ' Denicola, speaker of file Chamber of Deputies, is forming a new Cabinet.

BOLSHEVIK SUCCESS. (Received This Day at 10.15 COPENHAGEN, Feb. 7.

Reports from Helsingfors state that the Bolsheviks claim that they 'have crushed the Karelian revolt, aie confirmed by Karelian fugitives, who say the Bolslfevik army numbered 30,000. ■

WORLD’S WHEAT. LONDON, Feh. 7

Bathgate and Company state the world’s wheat crops promise a, surplus so abundant that before the war it would have been thought overwhelming. “We are not forgetting the possibility of damage and loss in the northern hemisphere in the next few months. If the damage is serious, the surplus will be needed to tide us over n bad year, ,but so far there is no need to anticipate a calamity, although some winter crops in United States are deficient in acreage and condition.

AIR SERVICE. (Received This Dav at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 7.

Goroell addressing the Air Ministry Conference said Government had decided to create a civil aviation advisory board under his chairmanship, to include representaives of Lloyds, Chambers of Commerce, Post Office, and Aeronautical Society. He was also considering the best means of securing representation of Overseas Dominions.

PROFESSOR’S DEATH. (Received This Day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 7. Obituary.—Sir Henry Jones, Professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow.

STOPPING SHIPBUILDING. TOKIO, Feb, 7. Orders have been issued' to stop a!! work on four battleships and four battle cruisers now building. There are 27,000 men affected, bub Okada, chief of naval Construcion Bureau says the stoppage of work is only temporary, as it is planned to advance the 1924 and 1925 programmes for naval auxiliaries, which will commence immediately.

Okada answering questions in the Diet stated that in addition to large vessels, nine destroyers, five submarines, eight torpedo boats, and two auxiliaries will be scrapped this year, 32 in all. Antiquated battleships will be retained for training reserves. The policy of the navy was to act in. strict accordance with the Washington Conference decisions. A LOAN OFFERED. NEW YORK, February 7. Four firms—Joseph Walker and Sons Bond and Goodwin, Pain, Webber Company, Parker and Company have jointly offered Brisbane Metropolitan Ipswich Water Supply Sewerage Board a. loan due in 1941 of a million pounds at six nnd a half per cent,

CABLE NEWS.

PACK OF WOLVES,

ATTACK VILLAGERS. UNITED BERVIOE TELEGRAMS (Received This Dav at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 7. The “Daiiy Mail’s” Paris correspondent 'reports that a pack of wolves made savage by the intense cold, raided at daylight the village of Wetronai in Roumania and killed eighteen villagers before they were driven off with hatchets and pitchforks. The country sid e is panic stricken. The authorities are issuing rifles.

AFRICAN STRIKE

FEDERATION TERMS

(Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, Feb. 6. *An official Strike Conference state- . ment says when the conference met on ] the 4th, the Premier proposed that the men return to work immediately on the best terms they could get, and Government would appoint an impartial board to enquire into the dispute, the terms to be adjusted, in accordance | with tlie Board’s report. After full discussion, the Federation to-day submitted their final proposals as follows: (1) Agreeing to resumption of opera-; tions on pre-strike conditions; (2) Gov- j ernment immediately to appoint an j impartial board to enquire into the dispute; (3) Terms on which operations J are restarted shall be subject to re- j adjustment in the final settlement; (4) ; The status agreement to remain in ; force ; (5) With a view to avoiding simi- j lar disputes in future, the Federation | suggests the Government establish a ' permanent industrial board to co-oper-. ate with Parliament. No agreement was arrived at, but ( it is understood that if new light is ( throw'll on the situation Government ■ and the parties will-consult again.

COMPLETE DEADLOCK. CAPETOWN, Feb. 7. The deadlock at Johannesburg is still

complete. A great mass meeting at the Tow r n Hall showed the politics of Nationalists and Labour ranks themselves were hopelessly split. It is a significant fact that none of the miners’ representatives were militant labourities. Fislier, the delegate from Pretoria, at a. meeting of legislators, affirmed that the chance for a republic was gone forever, owing to the attitude of the leaders, Tielman and Roos, Nationalists, who had declared themselves against revolutions, and the provisional Government was riow uniKttalinahfte. He urged the strikers to induce natives to demand more wages and thus make this the greatest and most c°stly strike in the world. If necessary they should fight till all the mines were closed, but they must win.

The authorities have issued a warn- . ing that concentrated movements °f .• strikers commandoes will practically | amount to incitement of the public to j violence Both leaders and men are cautioned that in the event of any dis- j order arising from tlio actions of the commandoes, drastic action will be taken t