BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

CABLE NEWS.

tIWTIMMAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION,

HELP FOR RUSSIA. LONDON, February 21

Mr Benjamin Robertson, (whose visit was cabled on December 17) has returned from Russia and he confirms Sir Phillip Gibb’ft barrowing stories of fainitie horrors. He advocates that assistance be given to the tivb existing British organisations in Sa-ratoff anR Buzuluk to expand operations. He recommends concentration on aduli feeding. The transportation of foodstuffs before the first week of April is highly problematical, but thereafter relief could usually be extended if funds were available. The Australian Government’s relief supplies had not arrived at the end of January when he left Russia.

PRINCE IN DELHI. DELHI, Feb. 21

The Prince of Wales’ visit to Delhi ends to-day. He was greeted with » hartal hero a week ago, but the native population this afternoon flocked to the People’s Fair to see the Prince. It is estimated that upwards of 100,000 people swarmed the enclosures and literally chased th§ Priiice round the ground at the Peopled Fair; The Prince, bn horseback, rode through the cheering masses for half an hour, saluting and smiling. He was delighted at his reception, for the crowd were lextremely good-natured and in the best of spirits. —...The police and military were powerless to prevbrit them paying homage The greeting was unique and a magnificent success. In many quarters the demonstration is regarded as a severe blow to the Non-Co-Operation movement in Delhi. SOCIAL CONDITIONS IN GERMANY. v LONDON, Feb. 21. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Berlin correspondent states: “Social conditions in Germany have so changed that a serious marriage crisis has arisen-. The better-class professional and business men 'cannot now afford to marry with the result that the women of the same class fijud no chance of marriage, as they have no opportunities of becoming acquainted with the younger men of th e new middle class.

Many reformers suggest that the offi cial supervision of engagements is es sential, especially as the divorces hav< increased from 10,41)4 in 1916 to 22,021 in .1919. The National Fund for war widows for a time was successful in arranging many marriages. Though the marriage bureau were originally intended to introduce war widows to invalided soldiers, Dr Khun, Director of the Dresden Hygienic Institute, proposes an extension of such bureaux, ■ making good physique the main consideration. “Houses of confidence,” should, he says, he also established to enable young members of the middle class to meet at concerts, lectures, dances. The housing conditions are so bad that young married couples are imitating the .peasants and settling with their parents. SPLIT AVERTED. (Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 22 De Valera at the Ardfhets, announced a. split had bieen averted. The meeting adjourned for two months. The Dail Eireann continues to function in interim. i BOTTOMLEY CHARGED. /Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON," Feh. 22 ‘The public prosecutor has issued a summons charging Bottomley with converting to his own use £SOOO sterling, part property of the Victory Bond Club, on September 16tli, 1919. . Bottomley interviewed said for some mysterious reason, the summons was not returnable till March Bth. Why cannot the case proceed to-morrow, f shall conduct the case myself. GERMAN PURCHASES. (Received This Dav at 10-15 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 22. Glasgow and Edinburgh flour millers report heavy persistent purchases by Germany and Central Europe, aic rapidly reducing the home stocks. OFF TO ORIENT. SAN FRANCISCO 21. Margaret Sanger sailed for the Orient on Taiyo Marti to-day. FRANCE AND GENOA. 'Received This Dav at 10.15 a.m.) PARIS February 21. Government has requested Italy to postpone the Genoa Conference for three weeks.

THE NEAR EAST. Received This Day at,11.30 a.m.) PARIS February 21

Bouillon who concluded the Angora writing to .'the “Matin” regarding the conditions of a just peace in the Orient says Smyrna must he returned to the Angora Government without question of financial or territorial compensation and Britain must give up Cyprus. Turkish sovereignty should be re-established at Constants no ple Britain must realise it would be a grave political fault to eontinuo in occupation which would raise the opposition of the entire Mussulman world. Guarantees would include- the demilitarisation of the Straits zone for the free passage under the supervision of a;ii Inter-Allied Commission including all nations on the coasts of the straits.

DAVIS CUP. (Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.l NIK YORK.. February 21. United States Lawn Tennis ■ Association has received requests from France and Czecho-Slovakia t 0 include them in the draw of challengers for the Davis Cup, which will be made after the entries have closed on March 15th. Italy has entered a challenge for the Davis Cup. t° r the first time. NEW YORK, Feb. 22. At Philedelphia international Billiard Championship, Class A, eighteen points tw-o balk lines was won by Edgar Tappleby who defeated Percy Collins.