BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTKAI.IAN AND N.Z. fAJSI.K ASSOCIATIONPROTECTION DUTY. LONDON, May IU. The gunboat Harebell lias left Hull for Fishery protection duty off the Murmansk coast. THE SAAR DEBATE. LONDON, May 11. Mr R. McNeill, replying in the Saar debate, said the decree had no defenders in that House, and it would not add to the prestige of the League of Nations, hut he questioned the wisdom of the course suggested by Mr Asquith that we should have demanded its immediate withdrawal. He emphasised the Government’s desire for ail impartial inquiry into the Saar Administration. Regarding tile Ruhr, many critics would find their answer in tin* British reply when it was published. The bedrock of our policy win the maintenance of the alliance with France. Sir John Simon's protest motion was defeated hy 239 to M 3. ROYAL SOCIETY. LONDON. May !i. Among til'teen neiv Fellows of the Royal Society are Sir Douglas Mawson for scientific exploration, and Dr MacLeod, co-discoverer of insulin, now used tor tho treatment of diabetes. Ibn Faraday Modal was awarded to Parsons, tin* inventor of the turbine. RUSSIA AND JAPAN. TOKYO, May 10. Russia bus acceded to Japan’s longcontroversed rights of fishing along the Siberian coast. Russia's action is regarded as brightening the prospects ol the diplomatic commercial conference for- wlik*li Hussia anxious.

PRINCE OF WALKS. GETS ONE ON TO PRESS. LONDON. May 10. , The Prince cf Wales, who was the prineijiaUguest at the Jubilee Dinner of the Newspaper Press Fund, made an amusing .speech. “Vie have our morning journals,” ho said, and by a wise dispensation of Providence, we have our evening journals too, so that if the morning papers m ake a false step, their evening contemporaries can ( set them right. Modern science, work- ■ iug hand in hand with modern journalism, has put a girdle round the earth, , and we get to know everything which , takes place, and believe that .it lias happened. Me have been fully infoim- ( ed about tilings which never occurred; hut perhaps an intelligent anticipation is sometimes belter than a Hoisted record.” The Prince went oil to say that the best example of intelligent anticipations occurred while he was travelling in the Dominions, where an aeroplane was sent specially to meet him, and bombarded the train with large bundles of a local paper giving an account of his visit to a certain town threequarters of an hour hour before be arrived there. The Prince announced that the subscriptions to the Fund amounted to L'25,000. NAVAL AND AERIAL PACT ADVOCATED. (Received this day at 0.15 a.m.) PARIS, May 11. “Ix> Temps” in an important article, suggesting it French and Rritish r.eriaf arnl naval part, says: “If Britain and France agreed to help each other against all dangers, their aerial and naval experts, together, could soon improve their aerial defences and guarantee sea communications without either nation having to bear heavier burdens than at present. England would not ask France to build a squadron ot cruisers to protect Singapore and France would not expect England to recruit an a nil v for the Continent. Each nation would be freer ami more tranquil under such an arrangement. \. h\ no not K»irl ai, d an 1 Fra u*o (‘onelude ment' to protect their communications to their colonial empires and connect their aerial defences. I* ranee would do everything to further such a plan. WARREN’S FRIENDS RELEASED. (Received this day at 9.15 a.m.) PARIS, May HWarren’s chauffeur and also Mrs Edith Louis, who was arrested \wth Warren, has been released on producing satisfactory references. found hanging. CARTERTON, May 12. Edward Reading, a. farmer, of Wav--I,akeke, aged 57, banged himself early this morning, utilising a legtope. There was no apparent reason for the act.