MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1923, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION CHINESE KIDXAPPING. PEKING, Oct. 1-1 It is reported that Cabinet has decided to accept all the foreign powers demands in connection with the Lingeheng kidnapping incident, except the dismissal of Tuchun of Shantung. INDIAN ARRESTS. DELHI, Oct. If. The president and nineteen meinoert of the Sikh shrines reform com mit tee at Amritsar were arrested under orders of fhe Punjab Government on charge of sedition and conspiracy in conn'-e----tion with the activities of Sakli trinesmen over Xnbhn state succession agitation. More arrests are immitica! Ihe police seized the Committee’s newspaper office and plant. MANY HOUSES DESTROYED. WARSAW, Oei. 14. Many houses in the vicinity of the fortress were destroyed. LOCAL OPTION CAMPAIGN. [“The Times” Service.] LONDON, Oct. 14.

The “Daily Mail” says Scotland is in the throes of a local option campaign. The poll will he taken in December. Both sides are working feverishly. The whole of Scotland is inundated with pro and anti literature. POLITICAL CRISIS. MALTA, October 15. A political crisis, resulting yesterday in the resignation of Premier Howard, Is undoubtedly attributable to a recentspeech of Mr Howard at Rome, in which he allegedly made remarks conveying an impression of pro-Italian sentiments. He urged the. learning of Italian by tlio Maltese, as it would be of great use in tlio near future. It is estimated that from 10,000 to 12,000 people to-day attended a demonstration of loyalty to the British flag. The mooting unanimously passed a resolution protesting Against the Premier’s speech in Rome, and reaffirming loyalty to the Crown. CAPE MINERS PROPOSAL. CAPETOWN, Oct. 15. A sensation was created in Labour circles at Johannesburg by the proposal of the South African Mine Workers’ Union, one of the strongest unions in the country, to admit the native trade unionists organised lor that purpose. It is believed, in some quarters, that the proposal is inspired by the Communists. It is also suggested that financial reasons are .at the bottom of the proposal. ENGLISH EASCISTT. LONDON, Oct. 15. The “Daily Express” Birmingham correspondent says: The Fascist movement is organising steadily and secretly in the .Midlands. The Communists are anxious, as they dread the possibility of swift and summary action by the secret hands of men who are watching every Communist movement. ’lhe Communists intend to appeal to the police for protection if the fascists show tht> least dispositon to interlere with their meetings.

•REVIEW OF REVIEWS” CHANGES HANDS. '.Received this (lay at 9.-10 a.in.) LONDON, Oct. 10. Mr Wickhiim Stood, tt former editor of the “Times,” lias bought the ‘'Review of Reviews” and has taken over the managing editorship. OVERSEAS RELIEF FUND. LONDON, Oct. 10. The Navy League Overseas Relief Fund has written to the Dominions Prime .Ministers pointing out that the fund established alter the battle of Jutland through the spontaneous generosity of the British people overseas and which aggregated hull a million sterling, in addition to the rebel woik among the naval and mercantile sea men during the war, the luud is noM assisting in the education of over a thousand of their children.