MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1922, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. LONDON, June 7 Raper Conyinghan, cabled on 6th, has been married.

AFTER RUSSIAN TRADE.' BERLIN, June 7

A number of German timber firms offer to organise Russian export of thither via Petrograd and Kronstadt.

REORGANISE RUSSIAN NAVY. COPENHAGEN, Juno 7. Berlingski “Titende’s” Moscow cor- ~Wrespondent says the Soviet naval commission has been ordered to reorganise the Russian Navy, under German officers.

POLISH CABINET. WARSAW, /Tune 7. M. Pilsudsky re receiving the Cahi- - net characterised Skirmunt’s attitude at Genoa as lacking in energy with regard to Rapollo Treaty Cabinet notified the intention to resign. REP A R ATIONS TR OU BLE. PARIS, June 7. The Reparations Commission lias officially declared in.favour of granting an extension of powers to the Committee of hankers. France alone opposing.

JAP CABINET. TOKIO, June 7. • The Prince Regent has summoned the elder statesmen to a consultation on the subject of fi successor to Premier Takaliailii. , The Minister of Education (Nakaliaslii) and Minister of Economics (Mntoda) have been expelled from the Seiviikai party because they first refused tc, hand ifl their resignations. They _ ■ are held responsible for the fall of the Cabinet.

THE INDEMNITY. LONDON, June 7. The “Morning Post’s” Paris correspondent states that the Reparations Commission’s decision to give the bankers more scope struck Paris like a thunderbolt. French Parliamentary circles consider it another step in they direction Of reducing the credits due to France from Germany. It is felt that France, which already has made many sacrifies regarding the debt, is being manoeuvred into a position (there the pressure applied will make her actep, a still further reduction. The Bankers Committee probably will formulate conclusions tending to such a reduction.

OT \TEMENT BY FRENCH PREMIER * ‘ PARIS, June 8. Premier Poineaire, in a statement tn the Senatorial Commission, on foreign affairs, declared that every preparation had been made for a recourse to the Sanctions if the Reparations Commission reported that Germany was not showing good faith in attempting to meet her obligations. Exact instructions had been given to I* ranee s financinl representatives in Germain tor tl - t r etest possible control of Germany s v financial affairs. The French Covernmciit insisted that there sh.mld he no reduction in the amount to be paid bj Germany,

ENGINEERS TO BALLOT. LONDON, .Tune .. The engineers are now holding a. ballot on the question of whether the eMplovers’ terms shall he accepted. Therff were 400,000 ballot papers distributed t 0, Tlm secretary of the Amalgamated Engineers states there is a de “ c >* pi *>so 000 on the union s general tuna, aiid one of £200,000 oiv the contingency fund.'. The votes are returnable y ( Monday.

M leniN dying. HELSINGFORS, June The early death of M. Lenin # * nected It is expected it will prove a, signal for an armed *£ the Soviet. Many arrests have been made already. The Moscow and Petro-m-nd prisons are crowded. The A receives special instructions to deal . with the emergency.

LENIN’S ILLNESS. BERLIN, June i. Dr Klempirer, the specialist who recently attended M. Lenin, has been irgentlv resummoned to Moscow , • suggesting that M. Lemn’s condition is more serious than has been ac SIR F- D. BELL. LONDON, June 8. King George received Sir F. D. Bell of New Zealand at Buckingham Palhungarian elections. BUDAPEST. June 8 tt the Hungarian elections, the Socialist candidates obtained upwards of one hundred thousand votes Thej rank as the strongest part} aftei the Government.

YACHT BUILDING YARDS FIRE'A LONDON, June 8. White's yaclit building yard at Southampton was destroyed by fire. ' ll '‘ be,- of petrol tanks violently exploded, causing £1,000,000 worth of damage. The Marquis of Alisa’s famous yaclix, Bloodhound, was destroyed.