MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1922, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

4USTU4LJAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

SPANISH REVERSE. MADRID, May 1

An unofficial message states the 'Spaniards have bail ft serious reverse in Morocco, and were obliged to retire to their base at Tetuan l.arachet.

MAURITANIA’S RECORD. LONDON, May 2. The liner Mauretania has reached Southampton from New 1 ork after a record trip. Her speed touched 27.) knots per hour. She averaged 25) knots for tho trip. This is a world’s record. CELEBRATIONS IN EUROPE. ROME, May 1. May Day passed quietly. Shops wore closed, no vehicles plied in the streets, and no newspapers were published. PARIS, May 1. Labour Day passed in sabbatical calm, except that eabmetl and businesses of every kind went on absolutely, as usual. Tho giant aeroplane, Goliath, cruised over the city watching Socialist meetings.

.1A PA NESK CE LF.BRATI ONS. TOKIO, May 1

There were May Day processions in all the large Japanese cities. Minor dashes occurred with the police, who lined the routes. At Osaka, 'the workers were forbidden to bold a Labour Parade, but they secured their objective by holding it in tho ’guise of a welcome to the Prince of Wales.

GENERAL TOWNSEND. KEPT IN TURKEY. LONDON, May 2. Mr Parker, in the House of Commons, informed General Townsend that the latter had been refused a passport to Turkey, because the British Government thought General Townsend’s presence in Turkey would be’misinterpreted by France, Greece, and Turkey, and would ho prejudicial to the ponce negotiations. Several members protested against refusing a member of the House of Commons a passport because he happened to disapprove of the Government's policy

General Townsend expressed Ids determination to question Mr Chamberlain later.

INDIAN REVOLUTION. LONDON, May 2. The “Daily Express’’ Paris correspondent interviewed Agu Khan, who said: •Unless Britain revises her Mnhommodan policy, a great Indian revolution was inevitable. Britain could only remain tain could not govern India by giving in India so long as India willed it. Blithe 'Order of the Garter to one man, and imprisoning another. Lord Reading, the Viceroy’s terms submitted by Mr Montague, were India’s minimum. India might he quiet for two weeks oi three months, or a year; hut there would lie more trouble unless the British policy is revised.

RUSSIAN OIL.

PARIS, -May 1

51. Krnssin (Russian delegate) interviewed at Genoa, said that tho Bolsheviks have been approached by both An-glo-Belgian and Italo-German groups of financiers on the subject of oil concessions in Russia. No decision had been reached. The Bolsheviks were against monopolies. They desired that all the great European Powers should he able to participate, and also the United States, on the condition that part of the oil fields shall he resowed for Russia. He realised that foreign assistance was indispensible for their exploitation.

U.S.A. AND RUSSIA

WASHINGTON May 2.

Air Hughes (Secretary of State.) has replied to tho Women’s International Longue of Peace and Freedom, who are asking for American recognition of Russia. He said that their political recognition of the Soviet was dependent upon the existence of a Government competent to discharge, and showing a disposition to discharge its international obligations. Tbe United States did not intend to interfere with the Russian people in their attempt to work out their own destiny. A basis for the credit which Russia needs must be supplied inside Russia and cannot be supplied outside. Meanwhile -the United States would continue to refuse recognition of the Soviet.

ALIENS -IN 'CALIFORNIA. S'AN 'FRANCISCO, May 2. Tho Supreme Court has ruled that the portion of the Californian Alien, Land law is unconstitutional, which forbids aliens, who arc ineligible for citizenship to act ias ■ guards for the agiicultural lauds of their American born children. ERIC RAYMOND MISSING. LONDON, May 2. Enquiries regarding the whereabouts of Eric Raymond cabled on March Ist, have proved fruitless, and the Australian authorities are not proceeding further.

DEAN INGE’S PREDICTION. LONDON, May 1. \ great outbreak of licentiousness in England, similar to the periods of Charles the Second, of the Regency and after the Napoleonic War, was predicted by Doan Inge in his Raster morning sermon at St Paul’s. He icclared that wars worsened the moral tone of the people. Men and women who accepted the social ethics -nould not accept the ethics of Christianity, but concentrated on giving themselves a “good time.” GERMAN GOVERNMENT'S RUSE. BERLIN, May 1Mnv Day meeting proved a. fiasco owing to the heavy rain. The Government by a. clever ruse prevented the interruption of public services while satisfying the Labour extremists by offering a holiday, but adding they must nofj be paid and it would l. e part ofi their annual holidays. The result was practically that there were no applications for absence from duty. , , Tho school children were also oflered a holiday if they brought letters from their parents. The result was that scarcely anv parents troubled to write. N.S.W. POLITICS. SYDNEY, May 2.

The New South Wales Cabinet today considered at length the question Of 'a reduction of the Ministers’ salaries, but they declined to make the result of the meeting public.