BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

BY TELEGRAPH—FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION] ADMIRAL RETIRES. LONDON, May 5. Admiral King Hall has been placed on ithe retired list, at his own request. WHEAT PRICES. .Received This Day at 8 a.m ) LONDON, May C. Wheat cargoes have fallen a little owing to the decline in American May wheat and the small demand. Quotations afloat 58s 6d, May 58 9d, Parcels were irregular and in poor demand, afloat 575, ROYAL VISIT TO BELGIUM, (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, May 6. Elaborate preparations are being made to welcome the King and Queen who are visiting Belgium next week. After the conclusion of a State visit to Brussels, the King commences on Thursday a tlireC' days’ tour of the war cemeteries. Dominion representatives are invited to participate at their respective cemeteries. His Majesty places wreaths on the Brussels monument to martyrs, including Edith Cnvell, also a Cross of Sacrifice and Stone of Remembrance in the British cemetery «t Terlinetluin where General Castlenau will speak.

JAPANESE CABINET. 1 TOKIO, May fi. The Cabinet crisis cabled oil 2nd May has beeii temporarily averted. lakaliashi has announced lie will not persist in liis reorganisation plan, as there is immediate business requiring Cabinet attention: CAPE FINANCES. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, May G. In his budget speech, the Minister of Finance announced that steps would he taken to prevent dumping. Owing to the difference between f.o.b. price as given, and f.o.b. price as determined by the Governor-General, would he charged as exchange duty, hut would not exceed fifty per cent value. CROWN PRINCE MEMOIRS. i i Received This Day at 8 30 a.m. ) LONDON, May 0. According to extracts from memoirs published in Berlin, the Crown Prince draws a merciless picture of his father in thc< hour of final surrender, almost literally declaring the Kaiser was rather white about the gills and full of passionate excitement;. At the last conference with Hindenburg and other generals, he was wavering whether to fight to the last and march against the revolutionaries, or to abdicate as Kaiser, while remaining King of Prussia. He asked whether in the event of this decision, the troops at the front would remain true to the Kaiser. General Schuleiibcrg declared they would keep their oath, and General Cromer shrugged His shoulders, coldly remarking: “Oaths to a Mar Lord are only words, just an idea.” j The Crown Prince cynically sums up that two different worlds, ancient and modern, were here opposed, and nothing could bridge the gulf. j THE KAISER’S FEELINGS. j ■Received This fitv at 8.30 a.m.) ! LONDON, May 6. j The Times’ Berlin correspondent ' states in his retirement at Doom, the . Kaiser is launching prosecutions for lese majeste. H ©unsuccessfully asked Berlin Foreign Office to proceed against Herr Sternheini, author of the “Sntire Liliusna,” the Kaiser’S charger, wherein the horse is supposed to record memoirs of the Czar, Kaiser and Edward VII, all of whom rode him. 'Hie Kaiser also instructed his lawyers to intervene in the production of T.udw’ig’s play dealing with the dismissal of Bismarck. j

TRIUMPHANT ENTRY INTO OSAKA. (Received This Dav at 8.30 a.nO TOKIO, May 6. The Prince of Wales varied the usual ceremonial by making a triumphant entry t-o Osaka, in a tram car. A public holiday was proclaimed, and thousands of factory workers thronged the route, and gave the Prince a boisterous welcome when the gaily decorated car entered the city after an hour’s journey from Nart. The Prince had a crowded two hour’s stay, and left for Kobe, where ho arrived, and after a reception embarked for Reifuknmgru, leaving at dawn for the Inland Sea. RUSSIAN TURKESTAN. •■'Received This Dav st 9.5 a.m.) DELHI, May 6. Both economical and political conditions in Russian Turkestan are very serious. Food supplies, including army rations, are very short. There are terrible talcs of suffering from the famine areas further west. The effects of the famine are so bad that it is considered the power of the Bolsheviks to resist a counter revolution has been seriously weakened. News is lacking of Enver Pnsha’s activity, hut apparently several separate forces are operating against the Bolsheviks, and Enver’s co-opera-tion e ffo rts - Frontier tribes are circulating a rumour that the Afghans have joined the anti Bolsheviks, hut the rumour was probably ill-founded. A GILBERT!AN WAR. DELHI, May (5. A Oilbertian war between Swats and Dirs. which was suspended for tho Prince of Wales’ benefit was soon resumed, but has now ceased again to permit the combatants to rear "crops. The truce lasts until the middle of August, and watchmen have been solemnly posted to guard the battlefield until the two armies are ready to re-occupy their positions. A DEAD MAN. LONDON, May 7. file body of an unidentified man was found in the public road at Cortin, County Tyrone. He had been dead for at least a day and possibly came from another part of the County. He had a wound over the heart and a lal>el on tho left wrist reading—“ Be. ware of the Irish Republican Army. A convicted spy.”. The man is apparently named Aron. Letters suggest he lived at Kensington Gardens, London.