BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 September 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. !' RUSSIAN RIGHTS, s. ' BERLIN, Sent. 11. I An agreement was signed here toj day by Leslie Urquhart, on behalf of ; t-he liusso-Asiatic Consolidate Com- ' puny, and Krnssin on behalf of the 1_ Soviet Government whereby the forniw cr obtains a ninety-nine years lease o of property in Urals and Siberia, •- which the Company previously owned j_ or leased. The Company secures n lights to make its own arrangements with workmen on tho usual British ' trade union tends a/id receives eom--9 pensation partly in cash and partly in j i- bonus for damage done to properties e through destruction. j INDIAN TROUBLES. I .'Received this day at 8 a.m.) j DELHI. Sept. T.l. 1 I The situation in Multan is much ■ s improved and shops are opening. A reduction of troops is possible. Great tension still exists between Hindus and Mohammedans. It is reported several have been badly disfigured with sulphuric acid. The Deputy ii Commissioner considers the danger of v the trouble spreading has passed. Tee i> situation in Amritsar is urfehanged, | but the number of wounded Akalis ee increasing, as tbe bands are dU- | e persed bv the police. Further hands continue to arrive and excitement is made worse by sensational rep rts , published in the Extremist and Vein- ! ncular press accusing • tie police an* authorities of brutal repression and ! various kinds of outrages in dispersing Akalis, some of whom, it is rl- : leged, received serious wreliids. \ Sikh members of the Legislature d •- 1 maud the immediate passing of a hill . to satisfy Sikh ambitions and pacify . Akalis. ' ‘ AN INDIAN DECISION. j 1 DELHI. September 11. 1 By 48 to 31 votes, in face of string 1 ’ Government opposition, the Legislative 1 1 adopted a resolution conveying a tnosj sage to the Horne Gove; iiinent viewing . with giave concern Hon. Lloyd George’s 1 . recent speech in the House of Commons ■ which is considered by the Legislatme I ■ to he in conflict with tbe solemn declaration regarding the new constitution ' and calculated to create serious apprehensions in India, regarding the attainment of Swaraj and Indianisation of i the services. Several Indian speakers < emphasised regarding civil services com- < plaints that they were now the rulers 1 of the country hut the servants of the Legislature. INDIAN FRONTIER EASIER. ' ) DELHI, September 1(1. ) Another recalcitrant, the MaLsud tribe has submitted to the terms thus * relieving the Waziristan situation. Only 11 one tribe remains obdurate. i Teheran reports the prohibition of importation of foreign liquor, which has been in operation for the past two years has been removed !>v the Government. RUSSIAN EXECUTIONS. ( PARIS, September 10. * Advices from Moscow show that no- j. cording to the Bolsheviks own figures, ,| executions by official anti-revolutionary n organisation since December 1917't0- T tailed close upon lj} million. j T INTERNAL CHINA. . fl PEKIN, Sept. 9. ! China, faces another civil war and the country is on the verge of a new change of Government which threat- • ens to give militarists complete control. President Liyiianhiing expresses ( great anxiety over the increase in tpowers of the military Government, ri who ,now admittedly controls Bar- m liamont, every session of which since (! has been attended hv violence and the p, adoption of a constitution which was si considered the first step now appears w to he remote. Cabinet members de- i clan? Liyuanlnmg is disheartened and ready to resign. STATUS OF INDIANS. ! LONDON, Sept. 10 j Lord Vostoii in an address to the ’ British Association appealing fir the II extension of complete Imperial rili- r< zenship to Indians said despite States-| men’s professions the belief prevailed j in India that helotry, not citizenship, i was the status designed for Indians 1 in certain dcuiinious and colonies. He j a cited Fiji and South Africa and Ken- j va. Ho advocated an .impartial lm-I perial tribunal to arhitrat.- in sue!:) cases. ! A DARING THEFT. j A ’ LONDON, Sept. 10. | u A daring fraud was perpetrated on in the London branch of the Guaranty la Trust Company of New York. lie L branch received a cable from China in- ol strueting the transfer of .‘12,009 star!- , h ing lo men in London. The message ' p was in the Bank’s own special cipher. I The money was paid, and the fraud 1 w was not discovered until advices show- ri cil no confirmation of the cablegram. When .the culprit got the money he cabled it hack to China in two separate amounts. The Bank lias succeeded in recovering 015,000. The ringleader of the gang of operators lias pi since been heard of in Canada. j L. I at A JOCKEY RETIRING. I 1,1 LONDON, Sept. 10. I Bullock, the jockey, is retiring at )s| the end of the racing season in No, 0, vein her. h* m GREAT SPANISH RACE. j MADRID, Sept. 10. | The Grand I’rix Allonso has just j been decided at San Sebastian. It is : the richest race in the world, being P worth CJO,OOO. The winner was the 1 Duke of Toledo’s Kuban. Steve 11 Donoghue rode Franklin, which was a 11 joint favourite -with Rnbun. hut he i 'j w:ts unplaced. j REPARATIONS HITCH. LONDON. Sept. 11. | y The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent is of the opinion that the reparations hitch, which has led to a suspension of the Belgian-German Conference, is merely a technical one. A Ho snvs the Belgian delegates, personally are favourably disposed towards a German proposal that 2< ( L- j 000,000 gold marks, covered ny time j sets of hills, in equal instalments, shall he payable on August loth.. , • 1923- on February 15th, and on Au-, 1 gust’lsth 1924. In view, however ol j " Reparations Commission’s order that j the hills shall he redeemable in gold j six months hence, the corespondent savs the acceptance of the. German proposal is beyond the Belgian delegates’ powers. They are. however, expected to recommend it to the Allied Reparations Commission. j