BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

I I’STHAI.fAN AXP N’.Z. C.WII.H ASSOCIATION COMM U.YI,ST I’ROGR ESS. RIGA, Nov 16. Descrfbng the progress of the Communism as world-wide, Zinovicff at the Communist International Congress said it was making noteworthy progress in Australia and Germany, but Britain. Frame. Italy and America wore unsatisfactory. IVrhap. tl><- «<>rst. vas Britain. «here notwithstanding great unemployment mid de-iitutioii. Communism was developing astoumliuglv slow!;;. The executive’s special duty in the future would hr to direct, considerably more attention to Britain than hitherto. In Germany the move moot was soundly established. The German Coiiimuiiky party are the soundest organised, and numerically

stronger than the Bolsheviks ill 101 , . when tlitv had two hundred and fifty thousand members. Decisive events in Germany may advance more quickly than is ’generally expected. Tho course of n proletariat revolution lies from Russia through Germany. We must expect new wars and new revolutionary struggles. In approving of Zmovieff’s report, the. Congress passed a resolution that the decisions of an inrlernational executive was binding in all countries. Lenin, in a sp: cell, declared tbe prospects of a- world revolution were becoming not onlv good, but even brilliant.

GERMAN RIOTERS. (Received this day at 8.80 a.m.i RERUN, Nov. 17. four hundred rioter.- in the mining area at Krechen utter looting goods from shops to the value ol twenty million marks, visited terms, find stacks and slaughtered slock. Five thousand rioters looted the town of Kerpen, doing damage to the extern of sixty million marks. English soldiers assisted the police in quelling the disorder. Twenty persons were arrested. The riots are stated not to he flue t<> hunger hut plunder and lust.