BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

CABLE NEWS.

kUSTKALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. SEMENOFF’S POSIT!ON. This Day at J'.'-IO a. m.) NEW YORK, April 17. The Federal district Attorney tele .graphed Mr Brail that Semenoff cannot be tried by any power in America for murders committed in Siberia.

FLOODS AND CYCLONE

NEW YORK, April 17

According to a Chicago telegram, the worst floods in history are sweeping over Illinois, Indiana, devastating villages and farms. A cyclone struck livington, Illinois, obliterating property, killing seven, and injuring a score.

LABOR PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS

('Received This Dae at 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, April 17

Mr Wallhead in a presidential address at the annual conference of the Independent Labour Party sitting in Nottingham, said the conditions of workers were going from had to worse. Trade Unions were drained to exhausti n by a long continued period of general unemployment, and had become the fitting object for merciless attack by the federated capitalists, who now declared that the vast industrial structure which had been built by the patient social effort of generations, by all sections of the community, was to he t; oil's to do with as they liked. The jesull in figures to-day was a reduction of 400 million sterling yearly in wages to the working class and an insatiable demand for mine reductions.

UKRAINE STARVATION. LONDON. April 17

A conference between America leliei administration and Jewish joint distribution committee held in London, has drawn up a programme for the rebel of Ukraine costing three million dollars, whereof the Jewish committee will provide half, as the Ukraine sufferers are mostly Jewish. Doctor Hutchinson, who investigated the conditions in Ukraine, reports that whole communities have Mink to the level of barbarism owing to .sufferings. They are dying en masse stolidly, like animals. Others are eating anything from animal refuse to human flesh.

JAPAN AND SI BP-IMA. TOKIO. April 17

Japan has decided to send additional replacement troops to Siberia, as a insult of the failure of the Dairen negotiations, with the (Rita Gover.ime.ii.

A COMING WEDDING. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 17. The wedding of Godfrey I loldsworth, formeily of Dunedin, with Lord Invoilorlh’s 'daughter, takes place on the •goth. A COALFIELD. RERUN, April 17. A large coalfield was discovered hi Lunzl'in Loewendcrg district, Silesia. The chief seam is fifteen feet thick four l.i’M ’rod feet below the surface.

FLYER’S JOURNEY

Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) _ CARE VERDE ISLAND, April 1.

Cabral Coiitinho is unable to continue bis flight owing to a gale. They have already covered 1520 miles. The last stage to Rio Do Janiero is 121)0 miles.

OBITUARY. BARIS. April 17Obituary.—Henry Esmond, the dramatist.

LABOR'S GALT,. Received This Dav at 10.15 a.m.i LONDON, April 17. The Independent Labour Conference requested branches to support, to the utmost, engineers and others who are locked out. Hr Smillie declaring if the affected unions were defeated it would entail ». serious setback to the whole Labour movement.

AUTHORIAL DESECRATED. DELHI. April 17

A war memorial at Calcutta was unveiled hv the Prince of Wales in December, has been disfigured by unknown persons. r l be tablet bearing the names of Calcutta men who lest their lives during the war. and the sides of the memorial were blackened with charcoal.

The Black Hole memorial erected by iJord Curzon was treated similarly. There are many signs that Extremist activity is increasing in the Central ‘Provinces.