BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

ACSTKAI.IAN AND S.X. CAni.F. ASSOCIATION PICK IN AND CANTON. PICKING. Jan 2. A iM.reigu (lllice telegram from Cantoil states tin- Canton liovi'riiini m has been reunited and recognises tin- Con'l rial Government, o ... >- BICI! BIN OUTRAGES. BICRBIN. -lan 2. Attempts were made al llalle to I blow up a. big monumental group , equestrian statue oi the ICmperor William Ist and monuments of .Moltke and ' Misinarek. MoltkcW status fell into • the basin of the fountain. Attempts '- to blow up the victory column in front, of the post ofiien and house of a wellknown hanker were frustrated by me I police. SOmi AFRICAN LABOR. OAPKTOWN. January 2. \ There was an animated discussion at, 1 the Labour paity's Conferem e at Du - 1 ban on Mr Croswcll's proposal to drop the Socialistic übiective clause Irom the Parly's constitution. Mr fr. swell’s described the clause a.- unsuitable to the needs of a practical political party dealing with prruticnl objects and as subject to wild misrepresentation and a stumbling block in the way of the progressive party. It the labour party’s constitution in Fuglaud was good enough lor Ramsay MacDonald and other prominent, parliuinenlai\ representatives, surely it was good enough for South Africa. While a i narrow majority favour the proposal, . if is extremely doubtful whether Afr | (Yosv.'Oll will obtain the necessary twothirds majority. AIR. FORCE) STAR V Id). : CONDON, Jan 1. Major Charles Turner. Cliff f fustruetor at the School of .Military Aeronau- ' ( ties. Oxford, reviewing British a.via- ; lion is in a chastened mood, and inili- ! tarv aviation di.i»s not give eonlidenci ■. .Mr Lloyd < e'oi gc's promi-od expansion . of the air force is not being carried . out .iff spite the alarming air developments in other countries, Britain s ' only hope consist- in. broadening the basis of commerciii 1 aviation, entailing ; quantity production, and reduction in the* oveiTund charges. "I lie secret lies in the development, of intend air . routes, maintainable at night in bad . weather.” Major Turner says: “ I hough the air force is in full control of Iraq, and is attaining an important position ni India, ih force is being starved. Wo have neglected the opportunities oi getting a share of the middle and southern Kuropeau services, and have done nothing towards the development of Imperial routes.” IT Ald AN ECONOMY. ROM E. Jail. 2. Signor Mussolini is carrying nut his reform programme intensively. He has swept away twenty-one. .boards and commissions, in connection will) the Ministry of Agriculture, comprising 3 ;, 2 officials'. I!,. i,u- also di .-missed on*- Thousand a rue olli-ers. He abolished twenty eilucal ion boards will, a large number nf superfluous otlicer.s, and lias siipprcssed the National Fueniploymeiit Hoard and the Labour Insurance Board. Ho has affected ;ui annual saving ol several million lire. i BRITISH ANXIETY BY EGYPT. CAIRO. January 3. in consequence of the Robson itiur- t the British community has decided to form a committee to arrange for the arming of British subjects m Egypt for mutual protection. INDIAN NATION A BTS.M . t DEI JTI. January I. ! 'file Indian National Congress, at its (•including session, resolved that the Working Committee should consult ' with the Khalifat Conference Working I Committee to deal with the .Year Bast- 1 ern situation, and appeal lor funds and I for volunteers in order to pi opine the I country lor a civil disobedience campaign wlieii all India has decided to I act. ! rt was also decided lo organise lab- 1 our and the peasantry in co-operation 1 with the Trades Union Congress. 1 Attempts to reach a definition of “Swaraj" as meaning complete inde- 1 pondeneo. were defeated. LONDON. January 2. •' The Air Ministry denies that aeroplane hangars at Mosul have been 1 burnt. ’’ A WARNING. h BERLIN. January 2. n An inter-Allied official lias removed *' from the walls of Cologne posters giving extracts from Mr Lloyd George’s articles, and lias warned the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung”, who were I lie printers of the posters, not to repeat the offence. <