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Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1923, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAHI.IC ASSOCIATION. EXPORTS AND IMPORTS'. LONDON. March 23. Sir .Tattles Allen is making reprsontatie.iis to the Government, with referenr „• to the Alareh mdi-.Maiks B 11, that foreign foodstuffs he marked ‘T’t reign," and Empire foodstuffs ho marked vvith the country of oiigiu. This is applicable to retailer-’ displays. Sir James Allen objects to the marking <;f meat. but .-ays the carcase should he tagged until ear. Chee-cs Should be branded, and butter (escslmnld be fi-:mini "foreign." or have the name of the count;y i f origin i n them. Tlie j creditrge of Letter in margarine -h. uhl also I. imlicat. .1. T REE TIGHT MTU! AY ARC II ISIS. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) SOFIA. "March 29. Police efforts to break up an unauthorised anarchist: meeting, also produced disturbances in the provinces, notably in YamE'di. The anarrhi.-t----refu-ed to disperse and fired their revolvers. Free fighting followed in which two anarchists were killed, and three wounded. One polie luau was killed, rtul eight wounded. BF.CC IXCTLIATIOX LUNCHEON. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON. March JO. The f.'cd- Liberal- invited Mr. Asquith and Air. Lloyd George to attend a re •oneiliution lunelieeii. Ah'. I.lnyd George has accepted. but Air. Asquith will decline. Air. Asquith's followers a.-.-ei t that the invitation is merely a iacticttl manoeuvre on tbe part of AL -Lloyd George'- followers. GERMAN WOAIEN WANT PEACE. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) HEREIN. AI a tvh JO. A mass meeting of women belonging to the Social Democratic Party, held in Doilmund, Cologne and Elherfe!d. adopted re- lotions appealing to thi l women tliroughout the world to raise their voices in support of the plea to end the horrors of the Frail'oBelgian invasion, a-.-ertmg that the German women do not want, another war. (nit co-operation, in peace and industry, with all nation- i! the world towards reconstruction. BRITISH INTERVENE. I.ONDON, Alaicii 29 In the Iloii-c of ( o lllll i llll -, Air AleNi'ill anouined that the British in .Moscow had made repeated but unsuccessful efforts In save the Archbishop Xepliak anti Eat her Rodkevitch. the Roman Catholics, wlm have been sentenced to death at Alo-cow, on chargemade by the Soviet. Air McNeill -aid he could not -■ c what tmo'r eould be done if the Soviet were determined In carrv out -itch iiarbarit ’es.