MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1922, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ANOTHER FLY. LONDON, August 9. Macintosh and MeCloughry in their world flight proceed in the spring of 1923 eastward via Athens, Bombay, Hong Kong, Tokio, Vancouver, Canada, Newfoundland, Azores and Britain. UPPER SILESTA MINES. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) BERLIN, August 10. It is reported from Gliewitz, that Prussian authorities are embarking on a great scheme of mineral development m Upper Silesia at a cost" of four milliards of marks., SEAMENS SECRETARIES. HAVE A WORDY WAR. this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, August 8. Mr Havelock Wilson has received Mr AValsh’s letter of 25th. June, enclosing a copy of a missing letter dated April 16th. in which Walsh declares Wilson during bis visit lo Australia, in 1922 told him he did not wish British members to he transferred to the Australian Union. He accused Wilson during the war of assisting shipowners to rob the country of millions, and after the war seemed more anxious to shelter profiteers thnn to protect members of iiis union, and not anxious to make shipping profiteers disgorge some of their plunder, which the seamen of England piled up for them during the war. Wilson in a lengthy, sarcastic reply, suggests that Walsh is suffering From a mental breakdown, and advises the services of a nerve specialist. •Ho adds—“ You state I have been driven from pillar to post by British shipowners, hut it is alleged by some shipowners that I compelled them to do things they otherwise would have left undone. My Union during the last three years transferred over twelve hundred members cf Australian Seamens Union to the British Union without entrance foe. You talk of conditions won for Australian seamen and appear to have the idea that if you were at the head of affairs in England, you would have accomplished a great deal. Why have you remained so long clown under. I am sure in the Old Country there would have been ample room for a man of your outstanding ability, but you evidently prefer to let off your spare gas at long distance. You ask me to rid seamen of the British shipowner, for what purpose. The latter serves a useful function, and creates employment for thousands. Doesn’t he fill a function in life equally as useful as you.

GAMES FOR GIRLS. • (Received this clay at 9.50 a.m.) LONDON. Aug. 9. A committee of experts appointed to consider games suitable for girls only, has reported against football and more strenuous forms of gymnastics. FRANKFORT WORKERS’ MOTION. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) BERLIN, Aug 9. Frankfort .Miners’ Congress passed a resolution sympathising with the striking miners in United States, and •ileuommonditig nat'oiial miners’ organisations subscribe ten thousand sterling for their American comrades. A HEAT WAVE. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) PEKIN, Aug 9. There has been a great heat wave in Japan and Hinterland of Nona China- for weeks, averaging over one hundred in the shade, while for seventy days it was 115 in Tientsin and Pekin. There were numerous eases reported of prostration and mental derangement in .Japan, where many fat-, tories are suspending work owing to the heat.

JAP SILK WORKERS. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) PEKIN. Aug 9. Workers in Tokushima, an important silk centre, requested ten per cent .reduction of wages out of sympathy with employers, some of whom are on the verge of bankruptcy, owing to the slackness of trade.

TURKKEY’S INTERESTS. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug 10.

Yonssuf Kemal Rev. Foreign Minister .replying to an interpellation in Angora Assembly declared the Greek proclamation of autonomy of Smyrna cannot affect the final settlement, because Turkey will continue the war indefinitely until the national part, succeeds.

A GERMAN DEAL. BERLIN, Aug 9

A German syndicate headed by the Hamburg Meat Import Company has provisionally agreed with Argentine Government for a minimum importation into Germany of one hundred thousand tons of live stock, one hundred thousand toils of frozen meat to he transported in German steamers. According to the Vossischo /eitung. payment will he partly in cash and partly in goods.