MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1922, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS

-USTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION FOOTBALLERS DEMAND, LONDON, August 16. A strike among professional footballers is threatened, Rugby League Players Union passed a resoution that if the League Committee refuses to receive a deputation relative to the demand, for lietter conditions, members will with draw their services at the opening of the season. FOOD PRICES BERLIN, Aug 16. Following a Conference with Trade Union leaders, Government decided to reintroduce maximum food prices, imilar to those fixed during the " ar -

FRENCH ACTIVITIES. PARIS, Aug. Iff. The French military aviation authorities are carrying out important exper*. ments in night flying and long distance raiding. It is understood that a new bomber is being used, carrying sufficient fuel to fly for eighteen hours at an average speed of one hundred miles per hour. Thus machines from Paris could reach and bomb -Warsaw without halting either way.

JAPAN AND CHINA. TOKIO, Aug. 15

The Foreign Office states that no money will be loaned to China in the present unsettled conditions there Japan is adhering strictly to a policy of non-interference in Chinese domestic” affairs, in accordance with the Washington Agreement. Japan will gladly give financial aid to China, circumstances permitting, when,China, is unified and under a responsible Government.

TURKISH ATROCITIES. - LONDON, Aug. 17. The British Armenians’ Committee issues a tragic statement, by Miss Ethel Thompson, an American, and formerly am orphanage worker in Anatolia. She says:—“The Turk drove ghastly lines of starving Greeks, women and children, 500 miles without food or clothing, until thousands dropped dead. Their bodies were left by the roadside, where the vultures devoured them. Miss Thompson says y she saw 300 small children driven in a . "Vicirele, and beaten with the flats of heavy swords. The girls disfigured V’ their faces by dyeing them sn as to hide their beauty, hoping thus to ’ avoid being taken for the harems.