BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1922, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

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GREECE AND ANGORA. TO STOP HOSTILITIES'. PARIS, March 22. The Near Eastern Conference decide I to propose the suspension of all he Ohtics between Greece and Angora Government for three months, the forces to be immediately withdrawn from contact, and the movement of reinforcemeii's stopped. THE NEW "WATERLOO.” LONDON’S GREATEST RAILWAY STATION . LONDON, March 21 Owing to the absence of the King who was suffering from a cold, the Queen opened the reconstructed and enlarged Waterloo Railway Station, which is now the largest terminal in London. There are twenty-one platforms.

ILLNESS OF LENIN

HKLINGSFORS, Milrdi 21. Lenin is reported to be suffering from cancer. army estimates. LONDON, March 22. A powerful array of the soldiers who are members of the House of Commons strenuously attacked the new Army Estimates on the ground that it would be dangerous to reduce the Imperial military strength. Colonel Mildmay (who moved it nominal reduction of the vote), FieldMarshal Wilson, General Townshend. Sir John Davidson, and Mr Cecil Lowther were amongst the most prominent of the critics. Marshal Wilson said that lie was not an advocate of an army of eighty divisions, as he was not thinking of a great. European war, but of bow to avoid war inside the Empire. “There is,” 1m said, “a way to save money. Leave places which do not belong to us in the grasp of those which they do belong, by which means we can effect a large economy.” j Rt. Hon. Worthington Evans, replying. said that if they attempted to shape the army on Marshal Wilson’s basis, they would be faced with the problem that they c ould only secure recruits on higher terms or by conscription. Colonel Mildmay’s amendment was defeated by 213 votes to 5-1

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ALLEGED INFORMER’S TRIAL

LONDON. March 21. The Daily Telegraph’s Brussel’s correspondent' states: The trial of Arinand Jeannes, charged with the betrayal of Nurse Cavell and other Allied nationals, is producing most sensational incident*. The evidence shows that Jeannes is a most curious type, and is a product of modern unhealthy detective literature. He took a mad, passionate in- ;

tcrest in police work, which is the only ; thing lie did well during his whole : idle life. He has a mania to he known j as a policeman. His is a new form of - insanity. His self-assurance is colorsal. He has a trick of gnashing his j teeth, which combined with a malig- . gant circular glance, conveys a simste, impression. ! Jeannes is defended by an officially , appointed counsel, others refusing to act voluntarily. i When the prisoner arrived at the court, a multitude of men and women howled with rage and bitterness tho police intervening to save Joannes from the fur y of the mob, who otherwise would assuredly have lynched him ,

TELEPHONE REFORMS

LONDON, Mti'-ch 22

The select committee on the telephone service recommends the separation of telegraph and telephone departments from the mails department, also the immediate reduction of ten per cent of the telephone subscribers’ account. The committee also recommends that residential telephones be lower than commercial, with a rebate to large commercial users.

ATJJES AND GERMANY

BERLIN, Mnrdi 23. The Allied Reparations Commission have handed Germany a note demanding the equivalent of thirty-six millions sterling (with payment in 1022 in cash, and seventy-two and a half millions in kind. Germany is also required to raise forty-six millions sterling by taxation, and to inaugurate a drastic scheme for a reduction in her Government’s expenditure, which must lie submitted to the Entente by the first of April. The note, which is practically a time limited ultimatum, also insists that Germany shall raise both internal and foreign loans, in default of which the Commission will put into process a levy on German capital. REPAR ATIONS COMMISSION’S NOTE. (Received This T)nv at S 31) n.m > BERLIN, March 23. 'l’lie Reparations Commission note has created the deepest impression. The conditions proposed are completely unacceptable. Political leaders fear the question will lead to political chaos. It is declared that if the Entente desires the closest union between a German Communist Government and Bolshevik Russia, no other plan than that proposed need he proffeicd. FALL IN WAGES. ■ Received This Day .t d 30 a.m.) LONDON, March 23. Wages in practically all trades are suffering further automatic reductions, through the fall in the cost of hying. Civil servants reductions operate from April Ist, when the war bonus will be considerably diminished. Shipbuilding engineers employees are opposing tin reduction cabled on March lith bul employers are adamant. Workinj men generally urge in view of tin automatic reductions in wages thru rents should also he reduced,