CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1922, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

THE IfUSH PROBLEM.

ii m* - AUSTRALIAN ANt N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. IRISH FREE STATE. BILL PASSES HOUSE OF LORDS. LONDON, March 27. The Hddse of Lords has read the Irish Free State Bill the third time. It passed without a division. In the House! of Lords, the only feature of tlie final debate on the IfisTi Free State Bill was the speech of Lord Birkenhead, who made a sharp attack upon Lord Corson for his action in misusing his (Carson’s) position as 3udge in connection with politics. However, Lord Carson was absent from the debate owing to illness. Lord Birkenhead urged that if Carson was to remairt a Law Lord, he had no right to make political speeches. He said that, as a Peer, Lord Carson was entitled to express his views, but; he (Carson) had no right to make Ins hitter taunts against the memljers of the Government, and to deliver Ins partisan attacks on the Government > policy. The position of a Law Lord, said Lord Birkenhead, was exactly the same as, that of any of the other Judges

SIR J. CRAIG. (Received This Boy at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON j Match 28. Sir James Craig added that ho wanted to create a helpful, not a destructive atmosphere for the London Conference and earnestly hoped that even at the eleventh hour, reason and sense would be subtituted for vindictiveness and hatred.

Pacific Pact.

SENATE PASSES MINOR TREATY. FURTHER RESERVATION. AUSTRALIAN ANU N.Z. OaBI.K ASSOCIATION WASHINGTON, March 27. The Senate has unanimously ratified the Supplementary Pacific Treat*, the voting being 74 to nil. , Although the supplementary treaty has been passed unanimously it was liot passed, however, without an atiached declaratory statement, which statement reserves America’s rights over the Mandated Islands. It- also removes from the scope of the Treaty all those question lying exclusively within the domestic jurisdiction of the Powers that are signatory to the Four Power Treaty. Senator Lodge offered the declaratory statement to the Senate. An attempt to effect an amendment by Senator Robinson excluding the Island of Sakhalin from the protection of the treaty was defeated. The debate raged hotly, and the opponents of the Treaty declared that the failure to incorporate this supplementary treaty into the main Pact made it possible for Japan to reject the minor treaty while accepting the major one. The treaty opponents, led by Senator Hitchcock, again attacked Sir Auckland Geddes (British Ambassador) for ' /'his alleged remarks that'the' Pacific Pact has prevented imminent war.

JAPANESE PRESS COMMENT.

TOKIO, March 27

The reception given to the news of the American Senate’s ratification of the Four Power Treaty varies. The “Osaki Shimbun” expresses gratification at the Senate’s approval hut. says it sees no reason for the Brendegee reservation, which provides that America hall enter into no alliances. The “Osaki Mainichi” congratulates America on restoring the confidence of the world, but expresses regret that the Anglo-Japanese AlliancS-had to go The paper points out that this is Japan’s opportunity for internal development.