MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1922, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION I | AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS, j (Received this day at 8 a.m.) ' VIENNA, August 5. Tile Austrian Government is petitioning the British Government to call an Allied Conference and to grant credits to Austria. Otherwise the Government land! (Parliament will resign, leaving the administration of the country to the Allies. The kroner is quoted at 240 thousand to the pound sterling, resulting in n further buying mania, everyone desiring to get rid of the paper money, which depreciates daily. People despairingly ask what is the use .of Government attempting to check depreciation and what is the use of imposing numberless new taxes and rates to bridge and over growing deficit. What is the use of numberless increases in official and other incomes, when the causes over which Austria had no control sucn ns the fall of the German mark results in a further depreciation of the kroner shattering all plans for Austria’s reconstruction. A CHINESE DISASTER. 5,000 LIVES LOST. (■Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) HONG KONG, August 5. Five thousand lives were lost in the typhoon at Swatow. MANDATES COMMISSION. UFUTTER’fI TF.UEOBAMS. 'Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) GENEVA, August ().' The permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations discussed the mandate over Naum and requested information from the Australian Government regarding recruiting of labour, working conditions, protection of native property and representation of natives in the administration. The Commission also discussed the remit on Samoa. Sir .T. Allen, representing tlie New Zealand Government, dated the mandatory was disposed to orbid the importation and consumption >f all alcoholic drinks by whites or latives. The Commission subsequently drafted lhservations to be presented to the ■ouncil of the League on the Nauru eport. BRITAIN’S UN-EM.PLOYED.

UNITED SERVICE TELEGRAMS. (Receiver! this day at 9.50 a.m.) DONDON August 5. The “Daily Mail” states faced with the livelihood of a million unemployed next winter, the Cabinet committee on unemployment is seeking avenues of relief. It is convinced the surplus population of Britain can he reduced only by emigration. The provision ol more development work in the Dominions is unnecessary precedent to immigration It may lie possihle to extend the Trade Facilities Act so as to encourage this proposal. Government is empowered to give guarantees of interest on approved capital issues for work in the Dominions. It is probable this will he done with a provision that work shall be begun within a given time.

MOTOR LESS FLYING. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) PARIS. August 5. Motorless flying will he thoroughly tested at a great experimental French Congress to be inaugurated on Sunday. There will be more than fifty competi-

tors. The immediate object ir to discover a type of wings best suited to volplaning in case of engine trouble. It is pointed out that during and since the ft ar, the efforts of engineers have been concentrated on developing the i motor car and in consequence flying mr- - chines resemble projectiles more than i a bird. It is now realised it is ne- , cessary to return to the study of bird . flight. Surprising results have been obi ’tained at German trials, including a i fl'ght ever several kilometers without . the use of a motor when Hardt mnintallied himself for twenty one to 150 I metres above the starting point.

THE REPARATIONS. (Received this day n t 11.30 a.m.) PARIS, August 6. Ihprt' is groat excitement among Hermans in Alsace-Lorraine n-lm Kel

they will be expelled wholesale. Evervtliia/r on the frontier indicates that sanctions are imminent. The commission recommended [lie Allies to accept the Gorman offer of a monthly instalment of half a million. The official Reparation Commission by a majority ol 3 to 1, recommended the Allies not. to' demand reparation payment from Germany until the end of the year. j DEMOCRATS VIEWS. j (Received .this day at 10.15 a.m.) i LONDON, August 7. The Social Democrats Federation held a two days conference in London and debated a resolution in favour of the German debt being fixed at an amount Germany could pay within twenty years, free of interest. A majority of tiic speakers, however, favoured! wiping out the debt altogether, so the i resolution was defeated. Dan Irving said it was the business . of the federation to organise the Demo- I crat force so that when the Labour i Party gained power through the ballol ; . box it would have a reliable force behind the vote to make it possible to j enter into power without civil war. 1 REDUCED BAD LANGUAGE i /Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) j ROME, August 7. Reformers claim that the campaign against swearing instituted at Verona Ims reduced bad language in that city seventy-five per cent in three months anil idealists predict its entire extinction. The propaganda includes posters and notices iij public buildings, railway stations, schools, barracks and leaflets dropped from aeroplanes. Reformers advocate that the police be empowered to take the names and addresses of people whom they overhear swearing, and hold them to to public scorn, by displaying their names in the city’s central square.