BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1922, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE INDJ VN ATTITUDE. DELHI, November 21. Bombay Corporation resolved _ m view of the humiliation and unjust treatment of Indians by Dominion Governments and Crown Colonies, that no „o„-Indian born in the Dominions or colonies shall be employed by the municipality, and no municipal funds be invested in hanks registered in such colonies, those already invested to he immediately withdrawn and no insurance of municipal properties to he placed with Colonial companies. RAID FATALITIES. DELHI, November 21. In the ATalisud raid cabled on the 17th.. our casualties were seven - dians and other ranks killed, and nine wounded. The enemy lost three killed. CENTRAL ASIA NEWS. -4 DELHI, November 21. Central Asian news brings no corroboration of the reports that Enver Pasha is alive. Turcoman tribes are hostile as ever to the Bolsheviks, though organisation and armaments restrict them to guerilla, tactics. BRITISH POLITICS. (Received tiiis day at 9.30 a.’n.) LONDON, November 21. A lobbyist says the Labour Party will be given precedence as tho priticr s —•“* pal opposition party. Their amendments and resolutions will he taken first, but the Liberals will also be recognised as an opposition party, entitled to separate rights, with a certain number of days allotted for discussion on desired subjects. Labour intends to set down amendments' regarding foreign affairs, unemployment and agriculture, in the'debate on the address in reply, while the Liberals will raise questions of free trade, and safeguarding the-- Industries Act.

KIT KLUX KLAN. A ArUR-DEKOtTS GANG. WASHINGTON, Nov 21. While White House has refused to authorise any statement regarding its conference with the Governor of Louisiana (Al> Parker), which interview—lias been already cabled, the U.S.A. Attorney-General, Hon Mr Daugherty, has issued a statement on the matter. He declares that ■'the State Government of Louisiania was amply capable of handling the Ku Klux Klan. The Federal Government is ready to extend aid wherever necessary. Hundreds of protests from every part of Louisiania have poured in, declaring that no such situation existed as has been charged, but Governor Parker lias issued a. statement, declaring that certain terrorising outrages and horrifying crimes have been committed and it is vital that their responsibility for these shall be fixed, and that such offenders shall be punished, but lie said the State was fully able to cope* with the situation. Few recent events have so tho American public, as the report of Ku Klux Klan’s activities.in Louisiana and the item has overshadowed all the other matters in the newspapers of tho country. • _____