BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIA!? AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. CONGRESS RESOLUTION, j (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) | LONDON, September 5. I At the Tiade Union Congress, Mr Thomas moved resolution declaring no plan for restoration of Europe «as possible unless the occupation of the Rhine and policy of force were abandoned. Time and facilities for payment must be given and German industry not stifled. If France and Belgium were to be restored, the difficulties of the disputes should he referred to an impartial court of the League of Nations: German responsibility must ho put oil a reasonable basis and fnade known to the world, as the present uncertainty was the most disturbing factor to Europe’s economic life. Germany and Russia must he invited to join the League with the saih e rights and duties as the present members. | •The Congress appeals to the French to give encouragement Eo Germany’s republican demccracy by a policy of in - tual trust and to reconsider German offers to restore the devastated regions. ] No question stood in such close relation- j ship to unemployment as that of international difficulties. They might denounce the Government, hut it was impossible to find employment for the people, unless ’they changed the international policy pursued during the last four years. The real differences he- ■ tween France and Britain were not due to France reversing her policy, but the fact that France had been misled by the British statesmen into a bargain which could not ho fulfilled. If Germany were not allowed to take her t place in the commercial life of the world France might see her enemy crushed but would not get any payment. The result would ho a Disaster. Germany must be given a chance to pay. The resolution was carried with a few dissentients.

Congress decided to take over the ownership and managership of the “Daily Herald” and to ask members for an increased contribution from one penny to three pence.

PRICE OF CURRANTS. LONDON, September 5. The agents of the Australian dried Fruit Association have raised the selling price of three crown currants from Ofis to 68s and two crown to 625.

LONDON, September 5. Doctor Fitchctt has t sailed for Australia after four months stay, during which he suffered from influenza for six weeks and sustained two accidents. GERMAN NEWS. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) BERLIN. Sent. 5. Parliamentary committees of the Majority and ]ndcoendent Socialists have agreed to snmbb. proposals for the Amalgamation to the joint coiiferencc on 24th Sept. Essen miners rejected the proposal to increase working hours, on the grounds that the men were underfed and plivsicallv unfit. OBITUARY. TON DON. Sept. 5. Obituary.—o. R. Sims.