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Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1923, Page 2

BRITISH S FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN ANII N.Z. (MILE ASSOCIATION. CMIX-VS PROTEST. PEKIN*, April 17. At Amoy, till business was suspended for the day, as a protest against the Japanese refusal to accede to China’s request for the abrogation of the Twenty-one Demands. Twenty thousand persons paraded. Japanese ships' were unable to load cargoes. Chinese merchants now refuse to deal with the Japanese Bank. Similar conditions exist at Swatcw and other ports. RELIGIOUS IXSTRUCTIOX IN* SCHOOLS. (Received this day tit 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, April 18. Lord Londonderry annouiHed in tlie Northern Parliament the Government's intention to include a clause in the Education Bill to ensure religious instruction ill schools. REVISION* OF PRAYER BOOK. ASSEMBLY EXPRESSES APPROVAL. LONDON*, April 18. The House of Bishops National Assembly, with three dissentient votes, expressed approval of the revised prayer-book measure. The Bishop of Ripon said that t'aev would not have order and proper discipline with ill* the church until they reformed the ecclesiastical courts. The’ Archbishop of York also complained that over a large tract of Ecclesiastical matter- the courts had ceased to function. The IJisln p of Norwich opposed pruvai on the ground, that he could not" believe that in the Holy Communion Service an alternative had any place and asked: “Why not an alternative Bishop in the Diocese." The Archbishop of Canterbury, in. t summing up, said the Church was living in a fool’s paradise if it thought it could get out of the difficulties by a system of ecclesiastical Courts.