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Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1923, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. CHINESE POLITICS. (Received this day at 0.45 a.m.) PEKIN, Juno 10. The situation is regarded as serious. Waveu refused the oiler it the Premiership, it is believed owing to High pressure from Tsaokun, who wishes to oust l.iyvanhung from the Presidency. Police gendarmes have struck allegedly owing to non-payment of wages, hut in some quarters this- i.-i believed to he part of a plan whereby the troops will bq brought into the city, ostensibly, to preserve order, hut really to compel the President to resign.

A later message states the President has arranged for payment in a mouth, of the salaries of police, who have resumed duties. MURDERERS ARRESTED. DELHI, June 10. Official reports from Kabul states two Shiuwaris tribesmen who were accused of the murders of Majors Orr and Anderson of the Sea for th Highlanders at the beginning of April, have been arrested by Afghan authorities, and sent to ,1 ellaiuibad for trial. DISGRACE TO BRITAIN. LONDON, June 10. Mr I.loyd George, speaking at Westbrurne Park Church, said that there were social conditions in Britain, which were a disgrace to the world s greatest Empire. Multitudes ol people were living under infamous conditions which could, and ought to be removed. We spent ten thousand millions en the war and never spent a thousandth part of that upon remedying the slums, [f an appeal, similar to that ol war times, had been made to ibc nation s patriotism for the redress of social evils, the nation would have responded and the surface i f Britain would have been transformed. Only the churches could arouse the national conscience to a sense of their social duties. Ihe world’s real trouble, at tile present was the enshrinement of force above right which appeared in the domestic, social and economic as well as international questions. Unless they showed a new temper he despaired of civilisation.

NO BBOOKS AT LUXOR. LONDON, June 9. Mr Howard Carter has returned from Cairo, lie will resume work at Luxor during the winter. Mr Carter declares that as far as he is concerned, lie will not remove the King’s mummy, should it he lound in the unopened inner chamber. "Lady Carnarvon,” he says, "intends to continue where her husband finished, and will not abandon the excavations. Only a quarter of the work is completed. Goat treasures are certain to lie discovered." Mr Carter is impatient with the talk about occult intluenee. "There are no spooks guarding tho tombs," he says; “not even according to the super-1 ii ions of the ancient Egyptians.” Mr Carter himself is remarkably lit after thirly-lwn years of excavation work.