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Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1923, Page 3

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LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. TYPHOON AND FLOODS. (lteceiyed this day at 10.20 a.m.) OSAKA, Sept. 17. Five thousand people are reported to have perished in the floods, which followed the typhoon at Tottori, northwest of Kobe. The rivers Kuluire, Khiyo, and Takime burst their banks destroying many villages. The terrific, downpour of rain, which is now general throughout Japan, has crippled the railway service, notably between r lokio and Yokohama. The InipoVial Princes have decided to return to Tukio. OX UNEMPLOYMENT. A I'THTIIKi; ARTTCJ.E.

(Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, dept. IT.

Hon C. A. -McCurdy, in a further article in the “Daily Chronicle” i n unemployment, says the sense ol insecurity in the mind of the British worker, is the uindamental cause of the Industrial unrest. Restricted output and strikes, ami the vast wastage of our man power cialist hopes one day to overturn Bills also a strong lever, whereby the .Stilish, industry altogether. We are revolving in vicious ciicles. fs it possible to reverse the wheel? I think it is, if we put the lever in the right spoke. For the first thing, there must lie a square deal lor labour. By that 1 mean a clear undertaking on the part of the State and employers, that the worker shall he secured against the risks of unemployment, due to trade depression. sickness, accident or old age. If a reserve of unemployed labour is necessary to the capitalist system, as economists tell us. then the capitalist system must make itself responsible lor its reserve tinny, as much as lor tho men in the trendies of industry. On the workers’ part, a square deal means there is to he no more restriction of output and no more ca’canny. Iheto must be a willing and honest acceptance h.v trade unions of all that new machinery means, and the methods for increasing output and the utilising of every invention which British brains can apply to Brit Dii trade.

SPAIN’S IMPORTANT DECREES. MADRID, Sep. IV. Although conliucd to lii.s room with a had cold. King Alfonso signed important decrees dealing with the dissolution of Parliament, ordering all employees in Government departments to attend their oflices pamctualy at nine in the morning till two ill the* afternoon ; forbidding strangers to enter Government oflices ; dismissing all civil governors; and confirming the proclamation of martial law throughout the country. ANOTHER REVOLUTION. (Received this day at 11.10 a.m.) JERUSALEM. Sep. 17. It is authoritively reported that a revolution has broken out in IrausJordania against Emir Abdullah, whom the British Government recently.granted control of territory which is geographically a part ol the Palestine Mandate, hut which was made a stepping stone ill tiit* British policy *4 facilitating the lormation of an independent Arab Confederation. Abdullah Eml.o. son of Hussein and a brother, of King Feisul led the armies in war time again.-t the Turks. Abdullah s official organ recently foreshadowed a campaign lor the cstahlisiiiuciit qt a Kaliphnto at Mecca, claiming the right to settle the personality of the Caliph on (.he ground that the Arabs were the present day guardians of Islam.

BRITAIN AND FRANCE DIS-

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NEW YORK, Sep. 17

A United Press correspondent at Washington learns that the United States has unofficial)v approached Great Britain, France and .Japan regarding their attitudes towards another disarmament conference, at which would he discussed the Pacific problem. siibmnrine and aircraft limitation. Great Britain’s attitude is hesitant, sic seeming to fear embarrassment ol the plan t<> create a naval base at. Singapore. the announcement ol wlnch eaiisod a stir some months ago. I* ranee

showed little enthusiasm,_ anticipating ; tlial such a conference might allord a leverage that could he used to coerce her i,7 connection with reparations. Japan alone expressed entire approval of such negotiations. blit the disinclinntioii of France and Britain will probably deter Bresident Coolidge I rum instituting official preliminaries until the Senate settles the American attitude towanls the World Court or the European atmosphere clears. I resident C'noldige. in putting out these feelers, is deemed eager in following the lootstops of the late President Harding, who had intended ruling such conlerence by 1925. S 1 >AH r.INGER’S TRF.ATM ENT PROVED. LONDON. Be; i. 17 The “Daily Express” states that a deputation from the Lancashire Insuiame Committee which is investigating the Spahlitiger treatment reports tl'at there ran he no roasoiudile doubt regarding ils elficieney. More than eighty per cent, of eases tier.tod arc reported to have keen absolute fines, although many patients were said to le in a hr.pclc-s condition before the treatment was applied. These recoveries had no relapses. Tile report proposes that the Lancashire County Insmnnre Committee shouiTl financially assist Dr Spulilinger to produce the serum vaccine.