BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. POLITELY CALLED A FABRICATOR ! WASHINGTON, September 12. The U.S.A. Secretary for War, answering Mr Rudyard Kipling, says that no good purpose would be served by Mr Kipling’s statement, even if it were justified by the facts. He said: ,“I will inft enter into a controversy about the United States’ part in the war; but I cannot understand how a man of Mr Kipling’s learning makes a statement without ascertaining the facts, hr lidw he publicly .asserts as a fact something that is refuted by matters on record. The evidence indicates that the British and French leaders were responsible for tbe armistice and that tbe armistice actii ally was entered into over-an American protest. Tbe United States did not profit as tlie result of tbe war, but they spent nearly twenty billions of dollars and they loaned additional money to foreign countries, and the asked for no reparations. The history of the United States’s participation in the war is honourable in every respect.” KIPLING DENIES STATEMENTS. , LONDON, September 13. “The Times” states that Mr Kipling, in a message to “The Times,” denies that he accorded an interview to Miss' Claire Sheridan (the European correspondent of the “New York World”; regarding America’s part in the late war, NEW RULE TN MESOPOTAMIA. LONDON. Sept. 12. The Royal Air Force takes over, at the end of the month, the sole maintenance of order in Mesopotamia. It will he using.- at the outset, eight squadrons of troop-carrying aeroplanes. It is stated that this experiment, if successful, will effect a saving of four-fifths of the present expenditure. LUSITANTA AVENGED! LONDON. Sept 13. In connection with tiie Haninionia wreck, the Lusitania is avenged. German and Spanish women survivors have written to Captain Day (who was taken prisoner in a submarine during the war) thanking him, and adding: “We will always pray for the British mercantile marine.” f I ■Later accounts demonstrate Jnob’s conspicuous galan.try. German women paid him a tribute with grateful tears, saying: “He helped us by being an Englishman. We do not know what we would have done without him. He saved women and children.” Jubb stated that .some Spanish women tied four babies together, and threw them into tbe sea, in a hope ‘that/ they would lm saved, but all were drowned. He continued: “I\ lien the Ivilfaun’s C’nstle was sighted I was so overjoyed that f started to sing “Tipperary.” Her crew were magnificent. No lives were lost after her arrival. Jubb is a foreman paper maker, and a native of Barnsley. HAVING DIFFICULTIES.' j (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) j COPENHAGEN, Sept. 13 ! The “Berlinski Tidendes” Helsingfor’s correspondent states that Soviet is already experiencing difficulties hi recdinl to the elections next month. A plot aiming at the overthrow of Soviet rule before the elections is reported to have been discovered. Those concerned include many influential people and numerous arrests have been made. Peasants in many districts are refusing to pay the bread tax unless they "got free elections guarantees. Troops have been sent to deal with them. '