BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1922, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

[BY TELEGRABlt—rfcft PRESS ASSOCIATION)

LONDON PRESS COMMENT, LONDON, March 28,

The London “Financial Times,” commenting appreciatively on Labour’s defeat in the New South Wales election says: “The Labour Ministry’s defeat is regarded in the City of London as a good omen. It is hoped indeed, that the many years of dominance by Labour theorists over Australian politics is at least seriously threatened;”

The paper refers to the abolition of the Upper Chamber in Queensland and also to the principle of compulsory arbitration in vogue in. Australia. Hie paper says in regard to these: “Every where in the Commonwealth the Labour fads are proving a. boomerang in this time of industrial crisis. Labour will have to mend its policy, or public opinion will enforce it, sooner or later. Already Capital is shy of entering the Commonwealth, and it is a timid bird to teifipt back once it lias really taken flight;”

ENGINEERING LOCK-OUT. LONDON, March 27

The 'engineering employers have refused to suspend tlieir lock-out while negotiations are on for a settlement. The situation is a most serious one. A further half-million workers, who are members of organisations affiliate.! with the Engineers’ Trade Unions, are being also locked out this week.

BIG TEXTILE STRIKE. NEW YORK, ...arch 27. At Lawrence, in Massachusetts. 10,000 textile workers have struck, they refusing the employers demand for a 20 per cent reduction in their wages Similar strikers throughout New England are threatened, and they wih. paralyse the textile industry there. THE MADEIRA EXILE.

KARL SUFFERING FROM FEVER

FUNCHAL, March 24

The ex-Emperor Karl is suffering front fever, and his doctors are holding a consultation.

WHEAT PRICES FATAS. LONDON, March 27

The wheat market in-London is now dull. This is owing t-o a total absence of demand, and also to pressure being exerted to sell the wheat {hat is on its passage to Britain. The cargo quotations are now 0d per quarter lowei. Parcels are weak, and are 6d to Is lower.

LLOYD GEORGE’S MOVEMENTS, i Itet eived Ops Du*' •*'. ~ ,_l ' l ■’ LONDON, March 28. Hon. Lloyd George spent the morning at a Cabinet meeting and lunched with Liberal members of the Ministry. He had an audience with the King in the afternoon. He then left for the country and probably "ill not return' to London before Monday.

| SOVIET .ARRESTS. COPENHAGEN, March 28. ! One hundred prominent Socialists, j some of a revolutionary type were orj rested in Petrograd. They belong to an organisation concerned in smugj gling food to political prisoners in Petrograd gaol. AN AIR MOVE. .'Received This Da” at 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, March 28. j The “Pall Mall Gazette” announces j a syndicate lias been formed, hacked I by a firm of armament makers, with the object of acquiring Government aeroships, with the prospect of Liter arranging regular trans-Atlantic an d Indian services.

ARCHDEACON’S APPEAL. LONDON, March 28. Archdeacon AVakeford, cabled on 6th Noveber has sent the Home Office a petition with upwards of fifty thousand signatures, including many clergy, praying for a rehearing.

! AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITION. I | Received 'Pins Day at ■‘‘••3d !, .m.> ; LONDON, March 28. I At the opening of the Australian Exhibition at Selfridges, Sir J. Cook, referred specially to the fruit, much of which was grown by returned soldiers. He urged buyers here to regard it as a duty and a pleasure to i bu v Empire products, when they had the choice between the Empire and Foreign.

FUNERAL SERVICE LONDON, March 28 The Atlantic fleet assembled at the spot where the submarine H 42 sank, and a funeral service was held, wreaths being dropped overboard, and the Last Rost sounded

QUESTION OF NATIONALITY. [Received This Oav at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, March 28. The Commons carried the first reading of the Britishers Bill, amending the law which compels women, irrespective of her wishes to take her husbands nationality.

LORD CARSON’S REPLY. LONDON, March 28. Lord Carson sent a message to the Belfast “Telegraph”—l hope to reply to Lord Birkenhead’s criticisms in the Lords, hut nothing can deter me doing my duty to Ulster. My. desire to preserve unsullied, the administration of justice, is at least as genuine as Lord Birkenhead’s.” A SECOND LANDRIT. IL-ceived This Day at 11.80 a.m.) BERLIN, March 28. The police at Warsaw, arrested end charred with murder, a young man, Stephen Pasnik, who confessed to having killed so miany women that ho had lost count of the number.. Detectives engaged in unravelling the mysterious murders of two young gjpls, discovered they had the same lover and tracked down Pasnik, who admitted he murdered a. girl named Fenda in January, and a few days later her mlotlier. He battered to death with an iron rod, a beautiful village belle shortly alter, and murdered another whose name lie rannot recall!, nnd a fortnight ago, still another. When asked for the names of his victims, he replied dispassionately: “I cut so many women's throats that I caripot remember their names,’*