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Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1923, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION NEWS FROM JAPAN. TOKIf). Oct. 15. At present the food position is well in hand, but daily many Japanese are returning from tho country to start life afresh. As all these return and the cold weather approaches, there will undoubtedly he a great need tor stores. As soon as the disaster occurred supplies poured in from all parts of Japan, nud before proper control was assumed there was much lavish distribution. This is not so now, as the relief distribution low been brought to a proper system. Work Inis, been commenced, removing the debris of Yokohama Club, where a huge mass ol fallen masonry prevented the search for tiodics. Severn! corpses of Europeans have already been recovered. All day long, dynamiting go 's on in Yokohama, where the ruins of great buildings are being blown up, creating terrific clouds of dust. So far the town lias been remarkably i ret* from disease. There is a little typhoid and dysenlry. but it is not serious. Swarms of flies are a more serious menace from a health point of view. Many Japanese arc going about with masks on their mouths and noses, especially in districts where the death roll was exceptionally heavy. CONFFRKYCK ' EFS. (Received this day at 11.10 a.in.) LONDON. Oct. lit. Ail important mcciing ol the Cnnteromc committees dealing with naturalisation discussed the naliniialitv of Bri-' tish women married to aliens. No recommendation has vet been subniiLl.'C to the Conference, hut there is reason to believe the committee "ill recommend that women continue to take the nationality of their husbands, except in cases where tic married state has practica 11 v come to an end. when tho woman should Ic enabled io resume her British nationality. The Over.-cas Settlement Committer is also doing important work considering a variety of suggestions; lor examph. tlie starling of training schools in Britain for intending emigrants, and also, a Siiggesti..n that schoolboys be apprenticed lor three vetrs to faimcts in the land of llcir adoption. Bill TIKI! CABIN EB' AND RELIEF WORK. (Received this day at BJ a.m.l LONDON, Oct. HI. Sir Jovnsoti Hicks speaking at Hounslow on the question of unemployment said in addition to rebel work already in progress, ( nluiiot bad authorised a further expenditure of Poirteeii millions sterling, making Approximately forty millions. Large stacks ni iron and steel in Ruhr arc waiting to bo dumped at much Inflow British manufacturing prices, constituted menace width it would he siupciiilntis iollv for the Government to allow. He foreshadowed placing orders for the enutructinn c.f 150 bridges in a tew weeks, including a two mile bridge across the Tay at Dundee, cosiing nearly a million sterling. Sir Joynsnn Hicks said U'ev saw the immediate possibility of placing orders totalling two and a halt millions value, with the steel trade.

THE TANGIER CONFERENCE. ITALY’S ATTITUDE. (Received this day at 8.50 a.in.) ROME, October 10. The announcement from London that the Tangier Conference is imited to Britain, France and Spain, "as leceivcd with dismay here. The but that the British Government was known to favour Italian participation, hut has now apparently yielded to pressuto. cannot fail to increase the existing British niipnpiilai ily. I’artieipatiou has become n quasi iuu ol Italian national amour piopi'e "bieli the Government is bout on upholding far more oven limit on obtaining lonciete advantages. Mussolini certainly will not acquiesce in any decision taken in fll'e absence of Italy. ’! lie plain Riot. i< that Italy is convinced that a new era has begun with Fasei.sm and that tho new Italy is not necessarily hound by anything appertaining to the old

NOT TO VISIT AI’STRA LI A. LONDON. October Kilt is announced that Lord Haig is not visiting Australia in 1925. and he never bad such an intention. LABOR A 1 EMBER'S V 1 KWH. (Received this day a* 10 a.m.: LONDON, Oct. Kb The Labourite. -Mr Thomas, speaking at St. Rainra-, denounced as miserable the assumption that unemployment was curable by doles. He said one hundred thousand men had not come to a day’s work" since they finished their apprenticeship. ’(hey had lint only lest their trade, but their characters. All Thomas protested against an attempt to exploit the presence of the Dominions Premiers in favour ot (arid reform. and declared it was larcial to propound a system ot colonial f>ro|ereuce that would raise the price of children’s Inins and enable sweet simps In make more profit.

ANTf-JElvis! I CAMPAIGN. [“Tub ’lT. mbs” Sen vita:.] (Received this day at 8.of) a.m.) VIENNA. Oof,.her Kb The anti-Jew ish campaign, spreading throughout Austria, has been taken u;i I>v every branch o! social activity, ft f s the In '.test 'in the high educational establishments in 'Vienna, which are over-crowded with Jewish indents. There is a constant agitation to limit the number of Jews admitted to the schools. The Coumil of the tg’i'dtill-:. 1 College has decided :■> Nl Jewish teachers from the staff. Hie movement has spread even to the world of sport, for the Austrian Ski Clubs |,nve put a paragraph in their ru'edcharring Jews from membership.

THE DEFENCE OF AUSTRALASIA. SING A PORE BASF AND BATTLESHIPS USELESS. NAVAL -MEN’S A’TEAA'S. (Received this dav at 9.2.» a.m.) LONDON. October 16. Admiral Sir Percy Scott, in addres--iim the Australian Natives A■ ■meintion. denounced the building of battleships. [[,. condemned the Singapore base as useless to Australia, which, lie declared, could easily be able to protect itself by means of submarines and aeroplanes. Bir Percy Scott niuioumed that France bad finally determined to discontinue battleship construction. Admiral Mark Kerr speaking on the result of war experience while in command of the fleet in the Adriatic, said that the Austrian battleships were powerless against the submarines which prevented them leaving port. Pacific experiences would probably be similar in a future war. The expenditure of twenty millions on the Singapore base was futile because if the battleships e\ ei .succeeded in getting there, which is doubtful, tliev would certainly never net out again. Tn any attempt to defend Australia and Now Zealand or any cf cur other Pacific possessions. Australia’s line of defence was obviously aeroplanes, submarines and torpedo boats, against which no hostile too due approach within two hundred milcs.

PROFESS I (AN A 1 FOOTE A L 1... ! ONPAN. Oct. 16. Lou Brown, the New Zealand oentre-ffirooiunrt-m. Inis signed on with the Wight) Club «f the Northern Union,