BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. LABOUR RESOLUTIONS. LONDON. June LI. The Parliaim-ntniy Labour Party jinv-fd a resolution welcoming the Anglo. Russian .-ctllcmcm along the lines tile party bad advocated, and also hoping that tin* Government would also endeavour to bring the dispute belween the Allies and Germany to a stage of friendly negotiations. The Labour Party is strongly of the opinion, that Germany’s last offer provides solid ground for negotiations and presses the Government to use every effort to dissuade France. Belgium and Germany from the submission of any demands imposing wnconditional surrender on any country conierncd. INDIAN SALT TAX. LONDON. June 11. Mr Trevelan. in Committee of Supply. moved a. reduction in the office vote as a prote.-t against the V iccroy's use of his emergency power to pas.-; tile new doubled salt tax after the Legislature Assemble rejected it. Mr Treveian, continuing said the Viceroy's exceptionally autocratic reserve powers should he used only to save the Government from wreckage ill a supreme crisis. The political cflect of the Viceroy’s decision had been disastrous and there was a danger that the whole structure of Government in India might soon he tottering. Mr Snell seconded.

RECEPTION CANCELLED. LONDON. June 11. The marriage of l.ady Mary t ambridge to the Marquis of Woce-ter at St .Margaret’s Church, was shorn of much of its brilliance, including tin l cancelling of the big reieption. owing to the Court being in mourning. The King and Queen anil Royalties present took leave of the couple at tae church gate. The hl'ide was dressed in white aim silver brocade, the dress being beautiful, but simple. THE DOMESTIC TROI'RLE. CONSCRIPTION ADVOCATED. LONDON, June 11. Mr- Witt, Superintendent of the Domestic Training Centres and Examiner for the Ministry ni LabourCommit tee, advocated conscription lot domestic training. She declares that every woman should have a certificate of six months' training. She condemned men's attitude towards domestic''. They could make the serve.' popular by marrying their dome-lies. The press was also to be blamed. The latest: toe dancer altd her millionaire husband were photographed hut you never saw a man Uatteriugly photographed for marrying a domestic. BELGIAN CABINET RESIGNS. BRUSSELS, Jiu.- 1 1 M, Tl'ennis’ Cabinet has resigned. PRESIDENTS SEALS. PEKING. June I I A message from Tientsin states the President was allowed to proceed to his resilience, his seals having been handed over to the Peking police. FIRM CONVERTED. LONDON, June LI Sir Titus Salt and Son-,' firm of Salt ni re, has been converted into a limited company, with a capital of a million ordinary shares, twelve hundred thousand seven per cent proleretire shares, and twelve hundred thousand six per cent debentures. BETTING INQUIRY. LONDON. June I I 'iJieitaxation scheme recommends t hat licenses should he issued to ollices for book bets, to replace street belling. A personal license, on .-.iinilar lines to that of ail auctioneer, .should lie issued fur bookmakers, ami a separate license for each betting office. Betting could he cither cash, credit, or mtiilisator.

A WAR TRAGEDV. LOSS OF J.'iO LIVES. BARIS. June 14. One of the most frightful tragedies of the war will lie levealed by the unveiling next Sunday of a monument to .'l.lO soldiers who perished, in the milage of St. Miehael tie Maiirieiilre. in Savoy, on December 11th. 1017. Ti'o facts were, censored at the time mid are now being first published. Five hundred French soldiers were returning from Italy, where they hail been aiding the Italians to resist the AustinClerman onslaught in the t'inve area. When their train reached -Modane. the driver protested that it was too heavily loaded to negotiate the gradients through the Savoy Alps, hut lie obeyed the orders to continue the journey. The train entered tho most dangerous section where the line ran down-hill for a considerable distance on a narrow mountain ledge, "ith a deep gorge below. Here, owing to its weight, the train got beyond control, and rated to certain death. The excessive speed caused carriage after carriage in take lire, and the men. leaping out. were crushed to tleiifh against the rotas, bordering the hue. When a curve "as reached the engine left tt:e metals and the carriages 1 iled up over it anil became a blazing furnace. Out of nearly three hundred men who v.eie still imprisoned in tne ears when toey "ere wrecked, practically the whole were burned to ashes, (.ess than lot) of the 500 were brought out or escaped nine, and the greater of these were so seriously inj mod that many died. RED ARMY READY. LONDON. June 14. “Tiie Times” correspondent is informed on the best authority that two personal agents of Trotsky-are in Berlin. anil have at their disposal £4.000.00(1. They have entered into an agreement with a Dutch Disposals Board for the purchase of ammunition and arms for use hy the Bed Armies.