MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1922, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ITALY’S TROUBLES. ROME, Oot 20. Signor Jfltti (ex-Premier) ih a sensational speech, said: “Italy was only producing food supplies sufficient for a couple of days weekly. Sho bad to purchase her food abroad and the raw materials for industries, most of which bad either collapsed or were collapsing. If Italy could send the sarno number of emigrants abroad as in 193.4 she would enjoy internal peace. A curtailment of the Government expenditure was immediately imperative. Additional taxhtion was impossible. Italy bad met her present difficulty by Treasury notes, which were a dangerous procedure. Italy’s first duty was to re-establish economic intercourse between the victors and vanfinished. Otherwise a reconstruction of Europe would he impossible.

CAPE POPULATION. i CAPETOWN, Oct 2Q. j The final census figures show the number of Europeans in the Union of South Africa is 1,1519,488. Tho natives number 4,097,813, the Asiatics 165,731, and the other coloured people 545’ .748! MOSCOW TRIBUNALS. COPENHAGEN. Oct 20. The Revolutionary Tribunals in Moscow have ben ordered to complete . the trials of those eases involving capital punishment before November 7th with a view to getting the execu- i ions over before the celebration of the Bolshevik Anniversary. i STEAMER WRECKED. | LONDON, Oot 20. i The steamer Hoyelyn, of 2,348 tons, belonging to tho Hopemouth Shipping Company was wrecked off Yarmouth in an easterly gale. Onlv the Hopelyn’s Bridge .ana Alias ts" are above water. A flag was hoisted on the clinrthouse. showing the j crew were still alive. Tho Garleston lifeboat has made repeated and heroic efforts to reach them. Tho boat was three times blown on the sands. JJie services of a Lowestoft motor lifeboat were obtained, and eventually the whole crew were rescued m a > terribly exhausted state. THE WRECKED HOPELYN. (Received tins day at 8 a.in.) LONDON, October 22. The steamer Hopelyn, wrecked at Yarmouth, is rapidly breaking up. ’The crew could not show themselves during ] the earlier attempts at rescue, outside j the Marconi room, where they were i taking refuge owing to the waves ; breaking fifty feet high.

A BELGIAN VIEW. BRUSSELS. Oct 20

The newspaper “The People” states: “Mr Lloyd George’s disappearance ends, perhaps,, for ever, the dictatorship.’ which lie 'eXei;cised, the effects of which have been felt far beyond the frontiers of the British Empire.’

CONSERVATIVES LIKELY MO\ It. NEW YORK, Oc‘t 20Sir George Paisb has arrived. He announced that if Air Bonar Lav stands for re-iccition in the near future he (Paisht will oppose him. Sir G. Paish predicted that a Conservative Government would attempt to raise a high protective tariff in Britain. “I believe,” he said “that it is essential to trade in the British Empire and throughout the entire world. As a fred trader, I will run against Mr Bonar Law in his own constituency.

.MARCONI SHARKS. LONDON. Oct. 20. A meeting of the Afarconi Wireless Telegraph Company has authorised an increase in the capital to four millions by the issue of one million shares. Signor Marconi explained that this new capital was necessary for the construction of new stations, and also lor broadcasting, which, it was believed, would assume very largo proportions, and add considerably to the com pnnv’s earnings. GLIDER’S RECORD. (Revived this dav at 8 a.m.) LONDON, October 22. Alanoyrole, French Airman, won the “Daily Mail’s” thousand pound prize, in a gliding contest at Ilford, remaining in the air for 202 minutes. ” RAND JUDICIAL REPORT. (Received this dav at 8 a.m ) CAPETOAVN, October 22.

The report of the Judicial Commission appointed to enquire into the late revolutionary outbreak on the Rand, finds the declaration of martial law was justified and the measures taken to suppress the outbreak w r cre not greater than the occasion demanded. Dealing with the causes of the outbreak, the report declares balloon papers wore deliberately framed with a view to securing the calling out of worekrs. The development of the subsequent violence was largely due to the formation of strikers commandos which were utilised to further the aims of the Communists. The report attaches much importance to the activities of the Communist Party in South Africa, and traces co-operation with the third international at Moscow, in the effort to stir up the natives to organise against capitalists. The strikers anticipated receiving armed support from country districts and Free State. The report condemns the action of certain Nationalist members in making political capital out of the desire of the Nationalist element among the strikers to secure a republic and tlie weakness of the Labour Federation in permitting an industrial dispute to be converted into a. political movement. The report finds tlie conduct of tlie natives generally was exemplary. They gave no provocation for the assaults committed upon them. A FRANK REPLY. PERTH, October 23. Air Ali tell ell replying to an anti-hquor deputation requesting an independent Government repoit 0,1 the workings of prohibition in America said anti-liquor would get a shock when the report v. as submitted to the people. The world would not change the habit of a lifelime without .a protest. Americans protested by resorting to drugs. The community would ho better off economically without drink or tobacco, hut there would not lie much enjoyment in life.