BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 June 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. MILD SAIALI/POX OUTBREAKS. .Received this (lay at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, dune 21 Of 211) eases of cliiekenpox notified •within eighteen days in Gloucester one hundred were rediagnosed as smallpox of a mild type. Now MS eases are reported, also one ease near Worcester. FRENCH POLITICS. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) PARIS, dune 21. Following the- confidence debate on Home Affairs last week-end, wherein the Radical Socialists refused to participate, three Radical Socialist under secretaries have tendered their resignations. At. Poincare refused to accept them. The executive of the Radical Socialist Party have now invited the .Ministers for the Colonies and Hygiene, and two under secretaries, all belonging to the party, to resign. SPEC!' RATION FOR RIDDEN. (Received this day- at 9.15 a.m.) WARSAW, dune 20. Owing to«the German marks crisis, resulting in wholesale speculations on foreign exchanges, the Finance Minister }ms forbidden the foreign bill of trade on all Polish exchanges. Extensive private speculations continue SUGGESTION NOT FAVOURED. (Received this day at 10.10 a.m.) TOKIO. dune 20. Japan’s Charge d'Affaires at Peking hast reported that the British Alinister has suggested that the Rowels, maintain a guard on the principal Chinese trains, lint the majority of diplomats do not favour the suggestion. Japan is particularly opposing hasty intervention. BRITISH CABINET APPOINTMENTS (Received this day at 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 21. The “Daily Chronicle” learns Lord Devonshire is likely to succeed Lord Reading as Viceroy of India m August, when Mr Austen Chamberlain is to be offered the portfolio of Svcrctary of estate for the Colonies. Mr *<• Kenna is then taking up the Chancellorship of the Exchequer,