MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 August 1922, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

I AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION I

POINCAIRE BACKED. LONDON, August 6,

j The “Daily Telegraph’s” Paris cor*»s----j pondent states: —The Council of French Ministers unanimously supports M. , , Poincaire’s proposal for individual i French action in regard to Germany. ! Owing to the importance of the matter, , 1 each Minister recorded in the Council , his support in the most solemn manner. f j COMMUNIST PARTY. , I LONDON, August 6. i' The British Communist Party, as an [ expression of the sincerity of its wish . to maintain solidarity with organised . | labour. it withdrawing all its Parlia- . | mentary 'candidates who were in oppo- ! sition to the Official Labourites. j THE ' WILSON SHOOTING, i LONDON, August 6. i Mr H. W. Massingham, the Editor of "The Nation.” writes as follows in the “Westminster Gazette” : —'l have seen the actual document' which Dunn (one of the two men condemned for the assassination of Sir Henry Wilson) desired read, on his own and his companion’s behalf, and which the Judge prevented. It is unoxccptionliljlc iij form, and if does not contain rhetoric, nor can it properly he characterised as anarchic propaganda.” “Tts argument, for reprisals, is based on the fact that Wilson was the Military Adviser to Ulster, and that the Ulster Government was responsible for the Belfast pogroms. T utterly reject Dunn’s argument as a. plea for the assassination of Wilson, but if I had been j a member of the jury, I should have had my mind directed by the doeu- j ment to the unquestionable fact that the j crime, was a political, and not a personal j one that it was, in fact, a link in the j long sequence of errors in which the British Government was onco involved.

Reprisals was the imperial policy. It is no longer so, but it made a terriblo precedent, and a starting point for political ill doing.” “The immediate question is: —What right had Justice Shearman to withhold the document from the Court? Without it, the men’s case, especially in view of the withdrawal of the counsel was vitually unheard. It seems that in these circumstances, execution of the death sentence would he a grave political mistake.” The condemned men’s solicitor protests against the execution being carried but on Thursday, in viow of the Home Office's printed recommendation, which states:—"No condemned person should he executed until after fourteen clear days from the rejection of an ap_ peal.”

I‘UUO CASUALTIES. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) N lIONG KONG, Aug. 7. < Casualties in Swatow typhon are now estimated at ten thousand. GETTING WEAKER. (Received this day at 10,15 a.m.) LONDON, Aug 7. Lord Xortheliffe is becoming rapidly weaker and his condition is of the gravest. CHINESE RIOTS. PEKING, Aug 7. ..Mutinous troops ransacked Kiukiang. Two hundred shops were looted and destroyed. 1 lie damage amounts to three million dollars. LONDON CONFERENCE. LONDON, Aug 7. The Conference referred M. Poincare’s scheme, dealing with Germany, including the guarantees which France is demanding as a condition ol a moratorium to a. committee ol experts who will report to-morrow. NEW WIRELESS STATION. | PARIS, August 7. | The new wireless station at Saint As- i sise. which will lie by far the most powerful in the world, a message from j which will be heard all ovor the world, j has been formally opened. ( GREEK WITHDRAWS. j CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 8. 1 The Greek Commander in Thrace has ! notified the Allied Commander that the withdrawal of Greek forces two miles from the Turkish frontier in compliance i with the Allies desire for a dbtermina- 1 tion of tlie neutral zone, him begun.

FRENCH DESIRES. LONDON, August 7

ft is understood M. Poincaire insists on control of German exports, taxation of Ruhr coal, State- forests and Customs as essential conditions of a moratorium.

ITALIAN UPSET.

(Received this day at 11.30 a.in.) HOME, Aug 7. Fascist! and Communist clashes for \ the past week produced a grave situs- ! tion. Thirty-eight were killed mild j 'hundreds wounded* Milan, Genoa, j I’arina, llreseia, Bari. .Modena. Alios- I sandria and Padua railway are disor- ! ganised, telegraphs reduced and tram ways suspended. The most remark- ' able feature is that a majority of the people remained calm while the factions fought. .Milan practically is in a state of siege. Government authorised the prefects to hand over control to the military wherever the situation demands. Both factions mobilised a thousand each. The city is fully armed ,and there is virtually civil war over a wide area. A Fascist! supporter while walking with his fiancee in Bologna, was shot dead. Consequently the Fnscisti turned and set fire to the railwaymen’s club. Genoa Fascists raided and set fire to the Socialist newspaper “l.nver.” The military are using artillery against Parma Communists. RACING CAR ACCIDENT. LONDON. August 7. Brooklands motor racing was marred 'by an accident to J G. Gibson, driving a Vauxhall. He struck a fence and overturned several times. Gibson and his cousin, the meohnnic were injured seriously.