RITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. JAPAN RATIFIES TREATY. TOKIO, June 21. Tlie Privy Council ratified the Washington Treaty.
FOUND GUILTY. * (Received this day at 10.15 a..m.) PARIS June 21. Bessarabo (cabled 10th June) was found guilty, under extenuating circumstances and tlie daughter wa s aoquitted. FLOOD IN SAN SALVADOR, WASHINGTON. June 21. Red Cross advices state that hundreds were killed and thousands arc homeless as a result of the Hood in San Salvador, Central America. The whole city is in ruins.
POLITICIANS STRIKE. (Received this day at 8.50 a.in.) CAPETOWN. June 21. The Speaker’s ruling that members were not entitled to refer in Committee of Ways and Means to the Budget debate, but must confine themselves to the particular vote under discussion led to a strike by all members of the Nationalist Party. Hertzog gave notice to refer the question to the Standing Orders Committee, also to suspend discussion on the Estimates until such motion had been considered. On the House rejecting the proposal to report progress, the Nationalists walked out in a body, and have since absented themselves from the House. It is understood they intend to continue the boycott until the Estimates are finished
LABOUR SUCCESSES. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 21. In view of Labour’s election successes Irish students and political movements are already discussing the prospects of nn eventual formation of a Labour Government on the Australian model. CATERPILLAR PLAGUE. UNITED SERVICH TRLKOnAMS. LONDON. June 21. For the first time in the history of British farming the caterpillar plague, Avhieh is threatening orchards at Seven Oaks was destroyed by a shower of insecticide dropped from an aeroplane, flying at a height of fifty feet.
UPPER ST LEST A DIVISION. BERLIN. June 21
The Allies transeference of the partitioned Upper Silesia to Poland and Germany is in full swing. Polish troops have entered Kattowitz the chief town of the Polish portion.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 June 1922, Page 3
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