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Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. RESCUE OPERATION'S. (Received this day at .8 a.m.) I .ON DON. Sept. - Rescue operations at Redding, were suspended at midnight, until to-mor-row. Apparatus. wits erected at the pithead to disperse bhiekdamp. Pumping was rnntimicd all night. There is little hope of reselling foi tv-three id the forty-four entombed men. I-1 >ISERIN POLICY. LONDON. Sept. 25. The “'Morning Post.” commenting oil (hi forthcoming Imperial Conference's consideration of the question of foreign policy, says:—We must recognise thill the Empire is not above natural laws. Political communities can only endure it organised as a league lor mutual aid m aiming at social betterment. Were the Empire self-sufficient, it would not require an active foreign policy. It would have no motive for interference abroad. Such an economic policy and sell-suffi-ciency, in practice, however, is obstructed by several factors, chiefly because the members of the Empire, and especially Britain, have acquired vested interests in foreign trade, which politically resists attempts at diverting it into Britannic channels. Natural resources remain undeveloped, populations are not economically distributed, and sea comnmnicatioiis are primitive. All this can he rectified by tho Imperial Conference and Government action, but the transition can only be gradual.

TARIFF AGITATION. LONDON, Sept. 25

The latest demand for tariff assistance comes from the siik industry. At the Board of Trade Inquiry on intern ployment in this industry, it was stated in evidence that Britain had lost her position as the leading siik maim fin-luring country after Win, when the duty on foreign silk was removed. Now the British silk trade was only supplying one filth of the country's ci-iwuiiip til,n. Half the workers in the industry were therefore unemployed. The hidestrv demanded a 33 1-3 per cent, ac, valorem tax on imported silk yarns aim manufactures.

STRICKEN -I A PAN. TDK 10. Sept. 2(5. The stricken areas of Tokio and Yokohama. are again storm beaten, the low-lying districts being Hooded, adding much to the distress of the refugees in temporary shelters.

JAPAN’S NAVAL LOSSES

‘“Sydney Sun” Cables)

(Received this dav at 9.-15 a.m.) NEW YORK. ..opt. 26. The New York “Tribune's" Shanghai correspondent states the naval loss in the Japanese earthquake included two super dreadnoughts, the warship ...ilsu. and lour light cruisers, also immense quantities ol oil stored in submerged tanks. I-'I,ODD DAMAGE. (Received this day at 11.10 a.in.) DELHI. Sept. 26. Floods heavily damaged I'olulkaml railway and (loomtec river bridge sank and another bridge has been washed away. SERVIAN REPORT(Received this day at 11.10 a.m.) SOFIA. Sept. 2(5. It is semi-olliciiilly stated that order has been restored in the majority of districts where the Communists have been creating trouble. The only important centre where the Communists have not yet been subdued is Ferdiiiant'lorg, but. measures with a view to their repression there are proceeding normally. It is announced that several chiefs of the Coinunist bands have suieicled and others have been massacred by their supporters. If is stated that many Communists who surrendered were carrviug rifles of Russian pattcin.

ASIATIC QUAKE VICTIMS. (Received this dnv at 12.-hi I'- 1 "A TEHERAN, Sept. 26. A report to tho Allahabad 1 Pioncet from .Meshed, states 166 are dead and MB injured through the earthrpiake at Bujmircl and I-’antre. The disturbance was near Ata-k River and the direction between Mann and Sherwan. Niue villages were totally, and twenty-two partially destroyed. TO KID VICTIMS. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) TOKIO, Sept. 26. 9he fourth Glfu-hd list of British victims killed, is as follows—Mrs Jessie Gray, and Miss Ride Gibbs (sisor of .Joseph Gibbs). 'fhe following previously reported as missing are now reported as killed— Henry Clare Regill. John Walker, and i . .1. .1. Walker.

WOMAN CHAIRMAN

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(Received this day at 11.10 a.m.) LONDON. September 26. Margaret Rondlield has been elected chainmu, of the Council of the Trade Cion Congress. She will be the first woman President of the Congress, which meets in September next. "OBITCARY. LONDON, September 26. Obituary— Aubrey Herbert. Conservative Commoner for Yevvil. BRITISH CABINET. (Received this day at 12.15 p.rm) •LONDON. Sept. 26. Cabinet sat for 2} hours this morning. and was fully occupied m hearj„„ Mr Baldwin's statement regauling conversations with M. Poincare and consideration of the new situation an - ing from the German decs,on to ahantlon passive resistance. It >\ U ' U 1 ' matters me rather in a truns.tion stage. Mr Baldwin wiU pvohaldy make • n important pronouncement on the ■*'»- ti «|, policy at the opening of the Im-j-orial Conference on Ist. Oeto ier. BALLOON RACE WINNER. BRUSSELS. Sept. 26. Belgium is assured of the win,dug of the Gordon Bennett Cup. The Be. In de Muyter. who landed in Sweden, covered 1150 kilometres. VICTORIAN LOAN. (Received this day at 1 - ;W P m ' ) LONDON. Sept. 2b. The Victorian loan, cash and.conversion applications amounted to LL.lw-. [)M - LONDON. Sept. 26. YVail.i shares. 26s to 2.K 9d. MARTIAL LAV. LONDON, September 2b. Martial law has been declared m Ba-

vnna. A JAR TRIAL. TOKIO. September 2b

Lieutenant Amaonsa was eour t-mu - ti Vd for the murder ol Sakac Osug, Japan’s leading Communist, "horn killed with a sword while under arrest Vmacusa was found guilty. Sentence p—t. tcmutc.l tho tlcfision mW ‘hot n part Amacusa’s motives were ue.g-ni-ed to lie based to remove Osngi, and other anarchist leaders, whom he Heved especially dangerous to the state in time of a great calamity.