BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1922, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. MAN DATES COMMISSION. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) GENEVA. August 11. The President of the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations at Lie closing meeting, thanked the mandatories for the help given the Commission and congratulated them for their devotion to their civilising task. IC Commission drafted a questional,.' to assist the Anglo-French Governments i„ preparing the annual reports on 1 *l- - and Syria for next meeting, which was fixed for July next. HAGUE TRIBUNALS. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) HAGUE. .August 13. The International Court of .justice, by ft majority, decided affirmatively that the International Labour organisation was competent internationally to regulate hours and other eoudnons for agricultural workers. French and Roumanian judges dissented. The Court divided the organisation was not competent to scrutinise the means of production.

SOVIET AND REBELS. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) U>NDON. August 13

Arvo'ding to reports from Russia, violent fighting occurred between Red . troops and rebels, especially in Minsk, j where two read infantry regiments , joined the rebels, who iMo equipped J with machine guns and artillery. BOLSHEVIK SEIZURE. ; CONSTANTINOPLE- August 13. j Bolsheviks seized three British ships jit Batount. claiming they were formerly Russian ships. Several British warships shy proceeding to "Baton ni.

A TERRIBLE OUTLOOK. i Received this day at 9.-j0 a. in.) , LONDON. August 13. j Doctor Copeland of the New York Board of Health, who recently toured the Russian frontier declares as a result of enquiries that the whole of Western Europe is threatened with an appalling typhus wave in the near future. According to responsible authorities. t’c said. Tie was no prophet hut he would he amazed if Poland was not swept, by typhus or cholera next winter and Western Europe and America were in serious danger, the latter owing to the large influx of European imtnigrants. He saw a train disembark six hundred emaciated, verminous refugees from Siberia, herded in trucks. Two thousand others died on route and the. bodies were thrown on the railway track and 'eft to rot. This was a typical in- j stance. Published reports did not do justice to tlfe horrors ot the situation. The remedy was to feed. clothe and doctor the refugees, of whom it expected there would he a million and a half : before the winter. i

Ll.oYI) GEORGE'S BOOK. IMIBII skuvut: tei.wikams. (Received this day at 9.-'ll a.in.) LONDON. August 13. The “Sunday Times’’ announces it has purchased certain rights in connect!'a with Lloyd George’s war book including British and American book rights. It states the book will yield Lloyd George a sum running into six figures Mid says the Premier desires to replv to ill-informed criticisms of bis policy and actions without further delay, though he originally intended to wait until lie retired from politics. The hook may he written in retirement after all, as Mr Lloyd George lias had enough of the Conservatives complaints that they are entitled to more Cabinet, posts. Tf much more is heard of this, they will lose Lloyd George. These are the reasons why he would welcome relief from office just now.