BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS,

Hokitika Guardian, 31 May 1922, Page 1

BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS,

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION*. . RUSSIA THE KEY. WASHINGTON, May DO. Senator Borah, in the course of a statement says: “Europe will nof resume her purchasing power until she adjusts the ‘Russian question. Her present policy, of refusing to deal with Russia, keeps the world in turmoil. It threatens another war. So soon as Russia is again recognised as a member of the family of nations, it will have a most pacifying and beneficial effect on Europe and the whole world.

RUSSO-GERMAN TREATY. LONDON, Afav 29,

The “Daily Express” Paris ‘ correspondent states the Rapello Treaty is being extended to all the Soviet 'Republics allied to Russia., after secret negotiations between Al. Krassin, AL ritvinoif (Russia), and Dr Rathenau (Germany). The extension includes the Ukraine, Georgia, and the Far Eastern republic. The idea is to hit France and Japan.

RAP A 1.1,0 TREATY. BKRI FN. Mav 29,

Speaking in the Reichstag, Chancellor Wirt.li sltid the Treaty of Hnpnllo contained no secret clauses, either military or political. Germany had to accept the Allied reparation demands. because the sword of Damocles hung constantly above the Germans’ heads. The policy of the sanctions was not the policy of Genoa. FINANCIAL CRISIS AT PEKIN. PEKIN. May 29. The Government of China is facing a financial crisis, being unable to meet its current expenses. The Finance Minister lias appealed to the provinces to remit the revenue due to the Federal Government, which they are now retaining for local use. A million dollars is needed by June Ist to pay the Government employees, and only a few* thousand is left in the Treasury. The political situation is uncertain. A.lemors of the old Parliament are now assembling a Tientsin and Canton, in an anticipation that they will spoil be called on to assume the direction of the country’s affairs.

BRITISH EMIGRATION. LONDON, -May 29.

The House of Lords has read the Empire Settlement (Emigration) Bill a second time.

I.ord Crawford emphasised that it would not mean emigration, but migration with the Empire, and would tend to red mo undesirable migrants.

Colonel Alilery, in expounding the Emiiiie .Settlement Bill at a meeting to-night expressed his obligation to a Parliamentary Party lor their generous and svnipathetie reception of the Biil, which now was only awaiting the concurrence of the House of Lotus. Reierriug to the future administration of the Bill, he said he was not in favour of free passages. He preferred advances, which the migrants would lepa.v, thus encouraging self-reliance. He hoped t° be able to co-operate with the Dominions in promoting land settlemeat, the peopling of the land being a first essential in all migration schemes It was no good sending industrial workers to swell the unemployed, who already are overswollen in Sydney and .Melbourne. Australia and Now Zealand must have more farmers and not industrialists. He therefore attached importance to land settlement schemes like the West Australian Premier’s proposals which would open up new areas. We welcomed schemes to encourage individual settlement l.y piovkling separate holdings. Ho urged the preiimin-aj-y agricultural training of young inigrants before their leaving Britain, and advocated hoy and girl migration, ai formative ages, when they were mosr capable of becoming good settlers overseas. He would gladly foster hoy and girl emigration, as far as the Bill permitted.

MURDERS OF BRITISH OFFICERS. CAIRO, May dll. ' Replying to Britain’s protest against the recent murders of British officials in Egypt the Egyptian Government declares that it is using every endeavour to trace the murderers, and it also announces its willingness to compensate the victims’ relatives.

DAMMING THE ST. LAWRKXCi OTTAWA, Mnv 2<).

Mr McKenzie King, the Canadian Premier, lias announced that the Dominion Government does not eonsidei th.' pros lit to be the right time for Lie negotiation of a treaty with the United States lor deepening the St. Lawrence to make a ship canal to the f;real Lakes able to Hunt the biggest .liners.