MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 November 1922, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. o.inLE ASSOCIATION. j A CHURCH AFFAIR, LONDON. November 20. AA'akeford cabled on 20th. April is again seeking to re-establish his inn«cencc and is instituting a slander action against the clerk and solicitors to tile Archbishop of Canterbury. The Master of the High Court refused to allow the action to proceed. The Judge upheld the master’s decision hut granted leave to appeal. A VIEAV OF RUSSIA. (Received this dav at 8.30 a.m.) BERLIN, November 20. Rudenclion member of the All Russian Executive committee, who has returned from tile recent All Russian conference at Moscow, states the Bolsheviks are becoming alarmed at the conditions of the country. All the re-

ports presented to the conference gave the impression that a. calamity was ini- 1 pending, with a complete collapse of j agriculture early in 1923. All raw materials are exhausted, the mining. Industry is almost at a- standstill and sweeping concessions such as the immediate withdrawal of State control of trade, industry and restitution of private property arc inevitable if the i par tv leaders wish to save their power. Similarly Kamenev. President of Afoscow Soviet desperately appealed for ■ energetic measures to prevent the col- j lapse of industry and transport. He declared the stability of the Soviet had ' limits nnd it was doubtful if it would weather the crisis unless it adopted j

strong action. FUNERAL, SCENES. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, November 20. Remarkable scenes were witnessed at Johannesburg at the funerals if Hull, Lewis and Long. Thousands of workers in legalia, followed tile coffins. The Red Flag was sung and addresses delivered at .the graves by Labour members of I ’ai liainent. provincial and municipal councillors who participated. LEGAL DECISION. (Received tin's dav at 1.1.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 20. The Afastcr of the Rolls. Dublin, granted an application of Habeas Corpus in the case of Childers and eight other prisoners. I

I AN AFFRAY. (Received this dav at 10.30 A.m.) CAPETOWN. Nov 20. , A serious affray ot curred hist evening in Kaalplaatx, a diamond diggings near .lohannesburg. as the result of a between a. European digger and native police, who attempted to arrest the former, when several hundred na- . tives- attacked the police and white diggers fired volleys over their heads, hut this failed to have an effect. Eventually there was a serious collision in which two natives were killed. AT LAUSANNE CONFERENCE. (Received this dav at 10.30' a.m ) LAUSANNE, Nov 20. The Allies have decided to keep the work of the Conference a secret, creating an Inter-Allied press bureau to scrutinise the news ollieially announced. The three Allies exchanged pre- I liminary views. There, was the utmost , cordiality and agreement. | The Representatives of Balkan j States arc here in lull strength. Then.’ is almost a certainty that whatever I else emerges from the Conference, a new Balkan League will he formed against Turkey. This alone, ought to persuade even the Kemnlists to curl, their ambitions. The Allies have not yet come to a definite agreement respecting measures to he adopted in the event of Turkish recalcitrancy. While Britain and Italy are .especially inclinod towards armed intervention. Fra nee thinks a. policy of force which produced the. Serves Treaty and awakened Turkish Nationalisation, .should ho abandoned.