BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

STEAMER GROUNDED. [ R kutkils Ti-ti.ut;n ams.] ('Received tills day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, September 3. The steamer. City of Shanghai, wheat laden from Melbourne, grounded while proceeding to dock at Cardiff. Her position is dangerous, the bottom buckling, and the engine room is filling with water. Eater -he was refloated and is proceeding to Cardiff. LABOUR. CONGRESS. LONDON, Sept. -I. The pre-ident ial address ol tho Trades Unions' Coiigre-- warned the organi-ed worker.- against: the belie! that the millenium would be attainable bv political methods alone. Even a Labour Government would not mean the abolition of the capitalist system. Strong trade unions would always he necessary. The war had made little, if any, difference in the employers’ methods.. There was still the same antagonism that existed before the

LORI) BIRKENHEAD’S VIEWS. (Received this day at 11.1“ a.m.) nn.W, V pent 1 The Irish elections an' •- i.mipieUvindication of the Coalition, declared Lord Birkenhead, who is attending a Canadian bar meeting at .Montreal. He said the justification of the Coalition Government would lie found in the conduct of the war and Irish Free State Treaty. That the Treaty was possible under tin* Coalition. Liberals could not achieve it. and it could not be linked for the from the Diehard Tories. Though the reunion of Ireland with England might come, there arc tacts which will aid. such as economic realities. business relations ot trade, commerce, customs and kindred subjects. Ford Birkenhead pointed out that Englaii was Ireland’s best customer, and in the present state of tin* European market, Ireland was England's best customer.