BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 June 1922, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

i>r, VAbt A iLD E>ti HOPE. UINDON, June

\ iscouut Grey, dining a debate m Hie muse ot wus on the Genoa Corn lerence, said We first wing essential to tne reconstruction of Europe u to secure tne co-opeiauou of America. Me biamed we Government ior arranging tne Genoa and Hague Commences first, and ior inviting America afterward, iney snouid pieviously Have assuied u.emseives that Weir methods were acceptao.e to America. The Genoa Conference was devoted to securing an ..gieement with the Bolsheviks, was a mistake as such an argument was ol no practical importance in the reconstruction of Europe.

labor resolve. LONDON, June 28, At the Labour congress Mr Frank nudges, speaking on the resolution to affiliate with.the Communists, said the people who were proclaimed Communism in tais country were the intellectual slaves of 'Moscow. Not only would the Communists not bv admitted to the Labour Party, but tneir theory of Government must be fought by tne Party. Ramsay McDonald stated it was imperative for the Party to tell the Communists, ‘-whatever your activities .are you cannot belong to us.” The voting was received with great cheering.

SHOOTING OF WILSON. LONDON, June 28. It is understood the real name of Connelly, one of Sir H. Wilson’s assassins, is Reginald Dunn. He was born in Woolwich. He served with the Irish guards in France. It was there that he met O’Brien, Dunn was wounded in the Battle of Arras and granted a pension. He visit, ed Ireland for the first time last summer, and is supposed to have revisited it several times since.

HIGH BUTTER PRICES. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, June 29. The butter market is weaker -after earlier heavy buying. Australian was 224 s and occasionally 2265. • New Zealand 230 s to 2345. Cheese is steady, with Little offering. New Zealand white 104 s to 102 s.

FEARED ON 12th JULY. PARIS, June 28. “La Petite Gironde” the Bordeaux newspaper publishes an interview with Mrs Maud Gonni Mcßride, the widow of Captain Mcßride, who was executed ia the Dublin rebellion. She declares that the Protestants in Belfast have arranged for a wholesale massacre of the Roman Catholics on the 12t,h July.