BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1923, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

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LORD CURZON

LONDON, February 27

Lord Cu'rzon, addressing the Alduyeh Club, said he believed the peace party in Angora, to which Ismet Pasha belonged, would prevail. Lord Cuizon said he could not believe that any people, would in the long run, reject so generous a treaty. He reviewed the home and foreign situation, and claimed things were improving slowly ami surely, but he expressed a " ish for approval of the Government s attitude that the s-:|:it -cu of the u-pa rations problem would not lie solved l.v any individual nation, lit* looked forward to a day when it would be settled by internalimml action. Then' were two features, which encouraged that confid-

ence. One was the establishment of the League of Nations and the other was their improved relations with America.

A GOLD Til EFT. PARIS. Feh 27. The [a lice have arrested Algeri. an Italian, aged 22. who stole lot pounds weight- of Rtissian-Turkish gold from a train from Constantinoph in Dtcemher. When the train arrived in I’aris |.| boexs in which tin* gold was scaled i, ere found to contain only bric-ks, Ihe arrest was effected through Algeri s woman a-sr.iiato being found in a small Paris hotel with ll.t).'Hid francs worth of Rii-.-i.-in and Turkish coins.

THE U.NE.M PROVED. LONDON. Feh 27. The latest return shows that the wholly unemployed totals 1.3-10.0(11). a redin'’lie..! of 145.078 since January Ist. RHOBFNIA SEI F-GOYKRNAIKNT. LONDON. February 27. Air Ih.nar l.'-w announced in Parliament that the Government had decided to collier res] onsible government on Rhodesia. MAKKING IMPORTS. LONDON. February 27. In the House of Commons. Mr Lloyd Graeme, replying to a qm-lim as to the advisability of marking all i.m----poit.-d me: chandi-e with letters showing the country of o'igin. said this was under consideration in connection with the Merchandise Marks Bill, which ho hoped to introduce this session.