BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

APSTKaLIA.N AND N.Z. C.Ull.fi ASSOCIATION CLEAIENGEAU’S COMING TOUR. PARIS, Sept 15. M. Clemenecau in « statement ro-ga-rding his American tour, said lie .would fed hound in justice to Britain to dovoto a large part of his speeches to what, (hat powerful ally had accomplished tor humanity. He would refrain from comment on M. I’oincaire’s reparation policy and say nothing of the Allied debts. The main object of bis speeches would he to show Americans that they were wrong in not supporting the Allies in peace, as in war. U.S.A. TARIFF BILL. WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 In the House the Republican leaders regained sufficient control of the tariff situation to forte tl;e passage of t!v Tariff Rill .with the dye embargo and potash duty eliminated by conference, while fourteen Republicans voted against the Bill. It passed the. House by 210 to DO. It now goes to the Svjnntc. WAL.TON-ON-THA.M 108 CONTROV EIi.SY. LONDON, Sent. 15

Considerable indignation is fcR nt Wnlton-on-Thames (th.' locality of t.l:c well-known N.Z. .Military Hospital) at a suggestion made bv a member-ot the Walton-iu-Thamcs orough Council re the prosi'Tien of guns in front of the municipal chambers. He is Councillor J-lticking*. He has suggested that an Anzac gun, that was presented by the New Zealand Government, in recognition of the fact that ‘27.000 Anzacs had passed through the Wnlton-on-Thames Hospital, shonld he dumped into the Rivor Thames. j Griffith »aid this sugges- ( lion was an insult to the Anzac Army ( and Ihe Anzac dead who lay in the j fecal cemetery. _ Councillor Duckings replied that In had no intention to insult the Anzacs, | tout in list people, lie said, thought that the gnu should !>■ dumped into the Tlitiio s. It. was stated Hat Councillor Hue c-. ines who is a local garden >r. ohierts. ; on general nrim ip'es. to the display of , nuns, as Hie emblems of militarism, j He fins ho oliii" tj"i to an Ail strains- ; inns’ gull that, is at present outside t].p old miniH'l office. The council p* j now. how-ref, removing to more pda-i tinl premise.*, in a spacious ground. " ’which the council find decided that the gun should be shift'd. Councillor Duckings contends that shrubs look bvQ.w than guns. , IRELAND AND LEAGUE. _ j LONDON. September IL

Michael MncWhite representative of tne Irish Ministry at Geneva Conference Ins* arrived in Dublin. He "ill present to Cabinet information regarding Ire'lulid’a entry into the League. Mr Daffy tallies r. motion ill the flail that application he made fr.i thwitli for admission. GER MA N DI VC IR ( E OA SE. fßeceived this day at 10.15 a.m.) RERUN, September 17. Tile ex-King of Saxauiy lias been callr as x witness in a sensational libel nation to dotty the paternity of a child of Glwrlolte Baste, an actress, whose husband is a famous author. Tile statement was re; eatcdlv made that the King ix tha father of Haste’s child and her husband h..a been forced to filing an action. U..S. POLITICS. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, Eviit. IC.

Ju the House of Representatives, Mr Britten who formerly opposed t .’ League of Nations, introduced a resolution requesting Mr Harding in lb* ino I'. st < f world peace and industry lo take such steps to. h . deems advisable f r bringing a him I the rccsta blishm lit cl p litical industrial peace. Mr Britten declares tlm time appears propitious for a reconsideration of I 1" 'I rooty of Versailles and reparations questions, and it is apparent Cnit.d L-.at.s Government should not he'd itself aloof until called upon by lbe European Gnveriimoiits. Il is understood United States will reject Soviet Russia’s proposal loi liegotintions for a resumption of relations contained in a uotu to the American Ambassador at Berlin. AMERICAN COTTON EXCHANGE. (Received this day at i).5(( a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 16 American cotton exchange, following i.o the conviction on a charge ol bucketing orders whereby memberIni r.‘lv gambled in quotations, without really buying or selling cotton, mis siisp nib'll operations completely, although solvent, pending an appeal to the highest uuvirt. This virtually leaves New York cotton Irrders v. ,'ii, out s market. FORD SHUTTING DOWN. LONDON, Sept. 16 Eighteen thousand men in one Ford pi.-lit at Detroit, ' we:v paid oil under tie: order cabled on the lllb, an 1 nearly one Jimulivd thousand have I,.cu instruetod lo turn in their tools to-nivlit. for a.o iitileliuite suspension. RAILWAY STRIKERS. LONDON, S-ept. Hi.

ii is announced at Chicago that six- i teen Western railways haw signed an j agrcoineut cabloil on tbe loth, tbe men • ieiurning immediately. Southern J Bardie ollered lo sign but lie-' strikers j on Ibnl line declined. SALVATION ARMY. LONDON. Sept. Ri. Widespread pniU’sts are being mad 11n cnglmiil tla- country against a rctill'd lo England of Coiuinaiidei' Evatigclin# I’o db id F S ilva lion Army o’ , An erica, which has been ordered by (Luersil Booth, after eighteen years sen ii-e her.'. BELFAST SENSATION. LONDON, .‘’apt. 17. A. sensai i«n wits caused in Hellast I ~v l . e:i important documents regarding 1 •he de rues, of Ul-'.er including a me-i , muramU by Field Marshal Wilson. | were found missing. A constable cm- , ployed as el-Ji’k in the office ol the liiiliI ai'v edvis.-r, ha- disappeared. It _is believed, ho has gone to tbe I'i ee Mate.