BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

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j i .S.A. POLITICS. WASHINGTON. Fob. 3. j The U.S.A. Semite has unanimously passed the Derreot-Ander.son Bill, providing one billion three hundred million dollars en-dit for agricultural loans. Senator Holiin was twice relinked for remarks on the debts of Britain, by Senate vote-, which called the remark- improper, and ordered their expungment from tin' records. TO TAX R.A(TNG. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON February I. i The Pall Mali Gazette states the Inland Revenue Department has proposed to Cabinet (bat betting on horses should he taxed by licenses to all bookmakers and taxation of winnings of their patron-.

RACIAL RIGHTS. (Received Ibis day at 8.30 a.m.) DELHI. February I. Government have published the text of the proposed Bill bussed upon the report of the Racial Distinctions Committee whose general conclusions were that it would bo easier and moro practical to level up the rights of Indians than to level down the nights of Europeans. The Bill removes restrictions permits the trial of Europeans b.v jurie- composed of not less than half Europeans. while Indian British subjects are entitled to a jury, of which Lhe majority will lie Indian. I'ho rights ol appeal of Indians and Europeans is also levelled up.

ril'tMfKK' l:i'.Tll!F..\iK.vr. MOW YORK. !•'<■!> :i. !'!:<■ "New York I!■ rnldeotnmenliiifr on Mr W. M. Hughes’ resignation of tlio Australian i •remiersliip. declared : “The fate that attended Mr Lloyd George lias overtaken Mr 1 1 tights Tito people liavo grown weary of Ins Forceful. ngrc“sivc personalilv, and aJ *■ disposed to question Ids almost di't.itorird proceedings .to whielt a long term of ollice, with but slender majorities. and tlie prestige lie required in Europe during tke war, inclined him. | MI'IiUEH ENQUIRY I*A I! IS, I'Vhrnary 2. j At the inquiry into the death 0.l I'l tli'iiit ii was stated a plot was discovered the olijeel ol which was not only the murder of Dandet. Lnt tdso ol M. Poincare and .'!. I.eievre, ex-Mini-ster of war who had heen writing aiili(ierniiin newspaper tmiclos. Lefevre says a foreign organisation was responsible for ilte plot.

FRENCH DEBT TO I'.S. I'AliK. T’.-l >ru:i r;. 2. “Ee .1 <<urn;«l" says: The Alikin-Am-erican agreement |;ri.-vides that u«> debtor of tin* United Stale- shall icocive more favourable treatment than 111 it:ain. “Lo Journal" hopes that mmrmr interprets Hiis clnii-o innreurafcery. otherwise it settles ilte fate of the !•'reiu-Si ileht. IlßTTlffll LABOUR'S DEMAND. I .OX DON. February 2.

Three hundred liranelie-. of the Independent Labour Party in England are o rs/nnisili<j; public meetings lor the weelc-eiul advocating the repudiation of tlu> Versailles Treaty, the withdrawal of the Allied troops from all occupied areas, and the summonin'! of a world conference to establish a la-tine democratic peace in Europe. and in the Xcar East.

STRANGE TRAGEDY. RAIDS Eeh. 3. There i* a strange domestic tragedy reported. Jean Esteenave. a respectabi" man, married fur eighteen years, walked into a police station, and .-aid: H Lave si raniried iiiv wile!”

Knijiiiries show that all went well for sixteen years, until the wife received an anonymous letter stating that her husband was false to her. She threatened to kill him, and many disputes followed. In December the wile received a second letter, by which tile domestic trouble was intensified. The wile would not allow her husband to sleep, scratching bis pee keep him awake and make him an wer (itiesliotls. Wlii«u a third niioiivuioiis I. Iter was received on Wednesday, the wife said that she W(-.t:|,| avenge herself with vitriol. In a sudden impulse of feat and danger, the husband sewed her bv the throat and strangled her. He then dressed himself in his best clothes and went to the police.

I/EAGER OE NATIONS. PARIS, Eeh. 1. Successful progress in the reconstruction of Austria, under the Ptispir of the League of Nations, was emphasised by all the speakers it the meeting of the Council of the Leagt.e. Lord Balfour described the T.e" me * work' in Ibis regard as the greatest << n-stmi-live effort so lar made to extricate Europe from the economic chaos Hr appealed lo investors to subscribe to the Austrian loan. Eollowiiig an appeal by 11. • Ac uisn Chancellor.' the Dalian, Erciu It and ( V.eoho-Sf tvakiau ropre.-en la five ■; nil announced tliev wlllingue-x to c.„ - elude commercial treaties vuil; V.i-lnn. MR LLOYD GEORGE. (Received ibis day at Hi.*' ‘ > LONDON i'ebru.M-■ I. Bronzed and in excel!,-at k :,ui. air Lloyd George returned to l.otui ni tn'iu his first real holiday in seventeen yen's. He declined to discuss p Btic-. as he had not seen an Engli-h p, i'V (" r eight days. He. considered the French action in Ruhr a tactical mistake. It ■\v;i.js ominous timt Ciorin;ni opinion solidly I’obind the (iovornmunt v\u 1 (iermany no lonjior w‘«y undci pressure. I uni dend Hjrninst the uitlitlrawal of British troops from the Hlduo which would omy nmk«? mutters worse. I mu jiiixious to go to Anion on but if 1 do so. it will In* hue this year.