BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1922, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

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a wireless claim. LONDON, July 13. Mr Kolleway in the Commons, in regard' to a wireless, chain, said after further reconsideration the Government had decided to erect a wireless station in England of the ultimate power contemplated bv tlie Expert Commission instead of the smaller power proposed to be used in the first instance. This will provide direct commercial communication with India, South Africa, and Australia. A station will also be erected in India capable of direct communication with Australia, South Africa and England. As a eorrollary to this decision it is proposed a second station in Egypt and East Africa will be deferred and the question of erecting stations at Singapore and Hong Kong U.S.A.’S LITTLE BILL LONDON, July 14. The “Daily Express” states:—-“A British mission proceeds to the United States to discuss the debt question. Sir R. Horne (Chancellor of the Exchequer will probably accompany the mission.

HONOURS. LONDON. July 13. Three hundred members of the House of Commons have signed a motion, which will be debated on Monday, requiring the Government to appoint a Committee of Seven M.l‘ s to join "it" a committee of the House oi Lords to consider the perseiit method oi submitting the names of persons for .lommrs for”consideration of the King, and to report what changes are desirable in order to secure that such honours shall only be! given as a reward for public services. GERMAN WORKERS. BERLIN, July 13. The German political crisis is being rendered more acute by the trade unions intimating to the Majority mid tl o Independent Socialists that they strongly resent these parties voting foi a Protection of the Republic Bill watered form. The Unions demand that the Independent Socialists shaU forthwith be admitted to . This declaration signifies a letennm ation that the workers shall Laic . Government strong enough to .He guard the Republic.

COLLIERY DISASTER. LONDON. July 1 J

Twelve men were killed and five men injured bv an explosion of fire-damp in the Bleen colliery in Stirlingshire. The pit was worked partly with safety lamps. The cause of the explosion is unknown.

ALLIED REPLY TO GERMANY. PARIS, July 13. Tlu» reply of the Allied Reparations Commission follows “Le Petit Pansien’s” forecast. It adds: “The Commission is satisfied that the reparation payments arc only one and not the most important, cause of the depreciation of the mark. Stability can only be re-established if financial reforms are immediately enforced. THE REAL BOHEMIA. PRAGUE, July 14. An attempt is !>eing made to legalise bigamy as a remedy for the housing difficulty. Two Bills are before Parliament'. One Bill proposes that every male over fifty years of age shall not only be permitted to -have a plnralty of wives, but shall be compelled to marry more than one woman.

BETRAYER’S SENTENCE COMMUTED. BRUSSELS, July 13. The death sentence on Jeanne the betrayer of Aliss Caved, lias been commuted to penal servitude. THREE YEARS. ■‘Received this day at 9.n0 a.m.) LONDON, July 1-1. Smith, cabled on 22nd April, was sentenced to three .'.ears Irom to-day. . financial. (Received this day at. 9.50 a.m.i LONDON. July 14. Loudon and associated Australasia.i Links selling rates for cable tianslers t<? Australia and Nr-tv Zealand v/ill >'* ]*>s 6d premium. CHINESE CRISIS. PEKING, July Id. Ti... Governor uf Chekiang Province l-as dismissed F. a Central Unvernr,unit’s lelee-rnpli. telephone opertnors, and has or,lev.! Uim-i'to depart tru-i! il,e province. He netormed the I■ - bine- authorities that provincial omen, Is would operate these utilities j ei-eafter, and use the funds lor then

i wii expenses. (t is- rumoured also Hint tll( ' P™™’ ees of Eukiaug and Kwangtung have been inviled to join < liekinnff m ■> ' austoiH.nums government hendeil h> l>i Vat Sen, the Republican..

AMERICAN STRIKE. j WASHINGTON, July W- | Tlic U.S.A. Departments of War nn<l . Justice have received requests for 2500 , troops with deputy United States mar- j shals the troops being for protection i of railway property and movements ol j trains. The Departments have appeal- | e ( ( to local authorities to suppress any j violence arising out of the railway j strike. They • declare that Federal; troops will be list'd only when the local j authorities are helpless. j WASHINGTON. July 14. j Fifty armed railway strikers sur- j rounded the Western Railroad’s work- j shops at Oroville in California, in | which 200 shots were fired; they then i rushed the buildings. They beat the ! strike breakers. Many of the latter i were knocked senseless while they had

been asleep. WASHINGTON, July 14. i Mr Jewell, head of the Railway Employees’ Department of the American Federation of Labour has telegraphed I to President- Harding, denying that any , attacks were made on mails, and laying ; the responsibility for the interference j on the railway companies. | APPEAL TO SOVIET. | LONDON, July 14. Ren Turner, chairman of the first official Labour delegation to Russia in 1920, and George Lansbury, jointly cabled to the Soviet Government urging the Republic to abolish capital punishment and not to execute re- , ligious or political opponents, hut to show Socialistic generosity.