BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1922, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. ACQUITTED. LONDON, May 30. Charles Lawson was acquitted, JAPAN AND CHINA. TOKIO, May 30. Count Ucliida announced that Japan will not send troops to China to quiet disorders, unless at China’s request. CHURCH UNITS'. LONDON, May 30The Archbishop of York’s Committee on church Unity, a sequel to the Bishop’S Conference Of 1920, including six Anglicans, and six Free Churchmen, report there is ’ and can he only o)to Church. Tlie Churches are local representatives of one Church, and. the eSjstetice of rival denominational churches, cannot ho regarded ns in accordance with the purpose of Christ. E'o y endeavour ought to be made and the f resources of the position set forth. The New Testament episcopate blight to be accepted for the united church of the future. Similarly a Counc.l of Preshy- ■ ters and congregation of the faithful should be maintained. The acceptahce of episcopal ordination would notimply acceptance of any .particular theory regarding its origin, character, or disowning of past Ministers, have been blessed by tlie spirit of God.

appeal to electors. "LONDON, May 80It is persistently rumoured in political circles that Mr Lloyd George intends to appeal to the electors on the Irish question.

GERMANY’S BUDGET. ONDON, May 31

The German reply to the Allies states Germany’s 1922 Budget is one of 24,500,000 marks less than the 1921 budget. Germany promises that the publication of her statistics will be resumed Oil the same basis as that, used before the war.

Germany attaches special importance to the return of the capital sent away, and she will take every means to obtain its return by means of a foreign international loan.

GERMANY NEEDS MONEY. PARIS, May 30

Germany is convinced that financial help for her must be forthcoming from—- "*' abroad if an increase in her floating debt is to be prevented. Provided that aid is forthcoming, Germany is willing that her floating debt in March shall be considered her normal maximum. Pending receipts from foreign loans, however, to cover the payments that are made by Germany in satisfaction of the Treaty of Versailles, any paper marks issued to cover the payments will be added to the floating debt. The German Note stipulates that the Allied supervision of debts shall not violate secrecy as to incomes, or ,as to the private affairs of the taxpayers. Tb® Note says that the Government subsidies to the public services have been abolished, and the expenditure to reduce the price of foodstuffs, is now only 95,000,000 marks a year, instead of 172,000,000 as formerly.

UPPER SILESIA GOES TO POLAND

BERLIN, May 31.

The German Reichstag has adopted the German-Polisn Convention covering the Upper Silesia settlement. It was adopted by a two-thirds majority. q'ne' Upper Silesian members are thereby unseated. They promised the Reichstag, however, to retain their German sentiments, although they would nominally be henceforth Poles. Chancellor Wirth thanked the Siles- S ian members for their patriotism. The German Press of every shade mourns the loss of Upper Silesia, and flags to-day in the Reichstag and in the city were flown at half-mast. LONDON, May M-

The “Morning Post’s” Berlin correspondent says: “All Germany is united in bitter and sullen resentment- at the loss of Upper Silesia. If German militarism • ever revives, it will find herein a motive strong enough to override once more the prudent promptings of Germany’s present opportunist mind.

CABLE NEWS.