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Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1923, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION. general cables. LONDON, June 23. Countess Roberts on the anniversary of hi- assassination, is unveiling at Liverpool Street Station, a memorial tablet to Field Marshal Wilson. INDIANS RESENTFUL. A BRITISH COLOUR BAR. DEI.HT, June 22. In the Indian Assembly notice has been given of sevreal motions for tlie July session, advocating retaliatory measures against the Dominions and Colonies re citizenship. As regards the Crown colonies, a .Madras member is moving that steps be taken to impress upcit the British Colonial Office that, if the Indians arc denied the right ot British citizenship and equality of treatment with the white settlers, the Indian Government will ho compelled in retaliation, to suspend the further emigration, of assisted lab ,iir to any British colony whatsoever. The same member is also moving for the release of Dr. Ghandi and other Nalii nulist political prisoners, and for the removal of the present disqualifications, so that they can stand for the Legislatures. Another member's motion i- more sweeping still, as a retaliatory measure. It wants the Government to legislate so that the conditions for the entry of colonials to India shall bo the same as the conditions that Indians arc* subjected to in the part of the Empire whence the particular colonial hails Irom. and likew'ise in regard to the < onditions as to domicile and mil in alisatinn. Tho same motion provides for the absolute prohibition of the admission to Indian harbours of .-hips owned by companies registered in the colonies, or ships manned by colonials. It finally proposes a levy ol double Customs duties on all the imports from the other parts of the Em] ire where there are ic-triftions of any kind against the Indians. The newspapers ridicule the-e motions as likely to do more harm than good, and a- creating a hnl impression throughout the Empire, hut it is in t-iceabh* that tin* Indian resentment is growing about tin- treatment of tlie Indians abroad, particularly in Kenya.

BBf I 1.811 LABOUR ( l'\i'H!’K\(T LONDON, dune 23.

The lepoit of the Labour Parly's Executive, which i~ t* he prc-oniod at the annual c.uifci'encc on .Monday, points out that the membership ol the Party lias fallen during the year from 1,000.001) to 3.310.0 DD. The Party now has some sort of organisation in 507 cnit of the 003 con-tittiencies. 'I he increases on l-o women’s si tit* have been remarkable. There are now 1031 women’s sections, with a meinboi.xliip of 120,000.

The income for the year was £51.721 and the expenditure £70.782. The receipts had fallen owing to the effects of unemployment on the trade union membership.

The Executive recommends tho conference again to reject the Communist Party’s application for i.ltiliation.

NEW SUBMABINE PIIOTn. LONDON, dune 23. Scotland Yard detectives raided the ■‘Daily Herald” office in Louden, and demanded the j holograph of Britain’s new secret submarine, which the paper had published. The whole -tall were questioned, and even the mcsscngois were detained. Flu* blockade on the office was lifted only when the KHt: r handed the photograph over, and the process block, and all the* nudist l ilmtecl copies of the pap*: (outlining the philtre of the submarine.

.SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, .June 21 fn the Assembly, ilit* Nationalist lender. Mr Malan, warned General Smuts to be on his guard as icgaids the Economic Conleronee, which "ns intended to benefit England and not the Dominions. The Labour leader, Mr Boydell. told Gerierid Smuts that the Micincr the Goveriiinenl got ic into its head that State shipping could be made a success the belter. He favoured a reciprocal Slate shipping policy between Australia and South Africa. In the Senate General Smuts, reiorring to the European .situation, declared that unless we mobilised the forces of public opinion throughout the world, we would never secure universal peace, lie' would leave lio stone unturned in trying to produce a more peaceful temper am! advoiding .the' dangers to which Europe was rapidly slipping. General Smuts declared that there were l good prospects of a settlement ot the Indian crisis in Kenya, but they bad lo lie very careful not to embark on policies which would strike at the ronis of the' great civilisation which was building up South Alriea. Parliament was prorogued. Much interest and importance' was attached to the Uitenhage by-elect ion. as it is the first, wherein a NationalistLabour compart operated. An exciting contest resulted in tlie* Government retaining the seat by a majority of .s''. LAYING THE GHoST. .!urn' 22 A strange store is related of tin arrest in connection with two peasant brother: in a village in Bosnia. In ci nipniiv "il l a few neighbours, they opened the grave of their recently-bur-ied father, and tool; out the hide, ami hiirned it. replacing the ashes in the ceftin. Thov eonfe-sed their guilt, saying their action wa- instigated by their mother. They declared that.. <ui the night of the funeral, their father’s clio-t visited the mother, and prevented hci from sleeping. On the* second nidit the ghc.-t reappeared, and robbed the whole household < f their sleep. 'I hey feared they would disturb the whole village, so, with the aid of their neigii|,nill's, they decided to bum the body, thereby slaying the ghost. V JUDGE’S BLUNDER. LONDON’. Julie 23. Jusiice Cray. nT.o left a gross estate of £107.33-8. like many <th r fninous judges and lawyers, tailed t-> make bis own will ci rrec-tly. C'ostain of his interlineations are iniattostcd. Consequently, the will cannot be admit tel to probate. In this regard, he was in the distinguished company of his former schoolfellow. Lord St Holier, for main- years President ot the I lobat. Court, and also of Lords TTalsbuiy, Lytulburst. St. Leonards. i; nd Judges Rentoul mid Bacon. ENGLAND AND FRANCE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) PARIS, June 24. The --Temps" in an apparently officially inspired comment, piotests against the '‘Observer’s” sharp attack on France on May Day. a confidential, useful interview taking place between M Poincare and Lord Crewe. The "Temps” adds that France never thought of a dismembered Germany, a policy which was both unjustifiable and impracticable. The "Journal Des Deliats” while demanding a verification of- the "Observer’s” report fails to see a justification therein for violent anti-French diatribes.