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Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTItALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. MARK SLUMP. LONDON, July 21. Tho mark yesterday broke all records, once slumping as low ns 2,000,000 to L’l. Apparently this was caused by the hanking troubles in Berlin. The Reiebsbank has protested against the large business in marks being done bv foreign banks, and threatens retaliatory measures, unless it is cbeeked. The mark closed at 1,550,000 t o C I. A CRITIC.' ANSWERED. LONDON, July 20. Mr Eihelly Agent-General for Queensland) in a lengthy reply to the Press traverses Sir .). Simon’s recent cabled statement in the House of Commons regarding Queensland's unememployment and other matters, alleging Queensland's unemployment wathe worst in the world. Mr Eihelly declares that the Queensland Government's policy and administration have been consistently misrepresented in London. Sir J. Simon should, in justice in Queensland, make proper amends for his statement at the earliest moment. PRINCE OF WALES. LONDON, July 21. The Prince of Wales, after lunching at Hardy, motored to the farms there whose occupants are his tenants. ITe stopped his car at Maiden Castle, saying:—‘J think I'm 20 minutes ahead of time.” He Hung himself on a grassy slope on the wayside for a rest, but a little girl on a Shetland pony came along. The Prince sai. up and talked to her. Then he drove to the famous Wishing Well of Upwey. which is approached through a bower of crimson rambler and other roses. Here, in parsing a gathering inuinlv composed of young women, the Prince drank water from the well. Thou, as hidden by -Mrs Smith, the aged custodian, he threw the remainder in the glass over his left shottlder. "Did you wi«b, SirE” a-ked a girl from a bevy of rosy faces, “No, 1 didn't,” replied the Prince. “Bill you should,’' said the girl, adding: “Wish for a happy Princess!’’ The Prince of Wales then raised his hat and smiled, as he seemed to detect a carefully-prepared plot, lie said: ‘‘Midi, I'll thinl; about ii.” The girls raised a cheer as the Prince drove off to catch a train for London. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, July 21. Madame Fahmy was committed for trial. She- presented a piteous spectacle as she left the dock stumbling in tho arms of the women warders.

A DOCTOR’S PROMISE. LONDON, July 22

Voronoff in a statement in "Sunday Express" says "Within four months I shall be able to give the world a method whereby women may become young again, just as 1 can now take 30 years off a man's age. I have not neglected women, but on ilie contrary have been experimenting in this direction for a long time.

WOOL TRADE. BETTER. MARKETING. LONDON, July 20. The British Wool Federation has passed a resolution pledging the members not to buy won! in Australia tinlew* the draft ;i lovvnm.*** .stands, mid have cabled instruct ions to that effect to their buyers in Australia. ANTI-HiVIF.T VIEW.-:. WAR-SAW. July 21. A party ot American I Diversity men who have been working in Russia for a- year for the American Relief Association. and who arc now journeying home, expressed relief that they were no longer under the Soviet Regime. Some had worked in. (Moscow and I’vtrograd, hut the majority in the lands of ilie peasant, when- their task was not. only the distribution of fond, but that of guarding it from a raid of Soviet. authorities. There is not one in the party who believes that any civilised nation should even consider relations with the Soviet Regime. 4 hey admit that they began with a doubt of the wisdom of the American Congress men who have been speech-making in favour of Russia, after .-Inge-managed tours, during which the visitors woio Ktiroundod by Soviet spies, and made a sort of Cook’s tours along a route where the shop windows were dressed for their special benefit.

DOCKERS’ ST [UK I

LONDON. July 21

At Smitlifield. the meat workers have overwhelmingly iloeicled to resume work immediately. The Liverpool dockers are resuming. The Manchester workers have decided to resume on Monday. AHLITARY SENTENCES. PARIS, July 21. The Alinisterinl Council, sitting at Itumbouillet. lias authorised reductions in the sentences passed on about 1999 soldiers and sailors who were convicted of offences during and since the war. A H SC ELL A N K OPS. LONDON. .July 21. Business men complain that Australia House is not furnished with the latest tariff alterations in Australia. 'L'lie British I,awn 'Tennis Association is favourable in regard to all Australian invitation to a British team. LONDON, July 20. Lord Haig marched at the head of tii C delegates of the Kx-ServicomeiTs Conference to the cenotaph, and deposited a wreath of Plunders poppies. IH’TCTI COMMENT. (Received Hiis day at. 9.25 a.m.) AMSTERDAM. .July 2i. A message from Sorabaya published in the “Handelshlnd" .■ommenliiig on Singapore debate in Hie Commons, says the construction of this base L a clear hint and the outcome of political entanglements. The Dutch naval force must no longer bo a political device oi toys for Ministers. A lit naval force is the first requirement in the Pacific tor a Pacific war, which is to he expected.

A JAPANESE VIEWS. (Received this dav at 8.30 a .in A LONDON. July 22 Interviewed with reference to the Singapore debate in the Commons, the Japanese naval attache, Rear Admiral Tamaketoau, termed the British decision as strategically sound and an almost essential move. Asked why should Japan he alarmed as Singapore was as far distant from Japan as Gibraltar is from Washington, lie stressed the need for a lasting peace, and declared it was folly to assume that Japan constituted a menace to the white Australian policy.