BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1923, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. TRADE UNION CONGRESS. (Received this dav at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 19. The General Council of Trade Union Congress has issued a manifesto that it will encourage resistance of all attempts by the employers’ association to degrade labour standards by reducing wages and increasing hours. The Council expressed the opinion that employers are deliberately using the present slump as tho line of least resistance towards a reduction of costs of production and adds that- organised labour will not adopt a policy hindering a revival of trade, but cannot accept the degradation of conditions of employment as a means of securing trade success. AY I ATI ON INVENTION. MF.-eivcd this dav at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON. Fob 19. T he "Daily Chronicle’s” aviation export -ays that experiments are being conducted aiming at the construction of invisible warplanes. Despite secrecy, it is known that the authorities have produced a machine which is nothing more than one slender, widespread flying wing. The engines, crew and fuel are all hidden within tho wing to which even landing wheels van he drawn up. This bodyless aeroplane will he capable of stealing close in, almost noiselessly, without being detected. ALLEGED TRAITOR. i Received this dav at 8.30 a.m.) PARIS, Fob. 19. Ernest Baudot, a former editor of the “Eclair” who while living in Switzerland was sentenced to imprisonment for life for alleged treasonable relations with the enemy during the war, has returned to France to face his trial. He was arrested when he crossed the frontier

AGITATORS ARRIVE. PARIS, February 18. The Bolshevik Radek, with a score of French speaking agitators has ar- - rived at Dusseldorf. A VALUABLE FIND. LONDON, Feb 19. Professor Hugh Candy, for a few pounds Bought at a second-hand, bookstall a lbth Century copy of Ovid. He found it contain!d what the ties agree is a manuscript of 170 unpublished stanzas by Atilton. believed in he written in his boyhood. A DUKE'S TROUBLES. » LONDON, Feh 19. J The Duke of Bedford, addressing Bedford Chamt>er of Commerce, said he had to pav in income tax, and super tax pi’s 3d out of every pound m his income. That meant if he wanted to , employ two hundred men for a year at thirty shillings per week he would require an income of £40.258 irom which the State wuold take £24,658 and the workmen £15,600, leaving him only the value of the work done and not a sixpence for other purposes.