MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1923, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.] Tlf A I'Ai.GAL. DAY. TRIBUTES IN LONDON. LONDON, Oct.. 21. The traditional pilgrimage to Trafaf- ;l gar Square marked Trafalgar Day. A • large immlsc of people, including par- y ties of hoy scouts and girl guides, inspected the many Horn! tributes at tic ! base of Nelson’s Column, s'nt from all j over the world, and including two) large wreaths front French and f-p.m----i>h sailors. j Prominent tributes were recciv; ■:! ( from branches of tlm Navy League, j Australia. Canada and oilier dominions, j The wreaths from New cud j South Africa -till bee some ot no ice j in whi'di they bad been sent. _ j The High Ccmniissioiicrs ot fun.a and lj the dominions -cut beautiful floral '■ • ]; butes. BRINCK t)F WAI.ES. RETURN TO LONDON. LONDON, Oct. 21. A large crowd greeted the Prime <>f Wales ini hi- arrival in London I'-Vom Canada, lie was -im-bronzeil ami t'.ppeared to have enjoyed his holiday. INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONI'E RENTE. j GENEVA. Oct. 22 i The fifth Inleruaiior.al Labour Conference has a"cmlded, Mi Arthur I'om taine presiding. I'orty-lvo out ol •»« States are represented and there is only one question on the agenda, namely, the determination ol the general principal- el labour inspection. Mr Fontaine rohrre.l to the laying of the foundation stone oi the International Labour Bureaux Unlace yes-. tordav as inspiring confidence in the future. »}. UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE IN ,1 A BAN. j j TDK ID. Oct. 22 A special commis.ion e.l live Minisiers on universal snllrnge lias reported to Cabinet in iT". oar of removing pro-jM-cty restrictions on all p.r-ons ovv twenty-live years oi age, wife six months residence and giving them the franchise. ('RESIDENT CORGRAYF.’S BROTHER DEAD. LONDON. Oct. 22. Mr Phillip Co-grave, brother « f Bn- [ -blent Co-grave and a member of the f Free State Hail and Governor of Mount,joy Bias oi. died suddenly alter a chill'. I! (SSI AN I:o YALTA". VERSION OF AWi l l. MASSACRE. I BAR IS. October 22. Details II the as-as-inatioii of the Bn —ian Imperial family are disclosed in a book, written by a Russian. General Dietrix. whom Admiral Koltehak ordered to investigate the murder. The book says tliai. alter lhe massacre at Ekaterinburg. Hie bodies were carried to a forest ten miles away and thrown into a di-il-ed mine. On the following day onlels v.<:v sc. rtvod from Mo-cow lo recover ih< !•• dies and destroy 11cm with sulpbtiii.- mid ; ml lire. General Dietrix says that the heads were delineated by a surgeon, placed in drums cl alcohol, and taken to Moscow by Gnlostcliokovi In a -Minim <■■"- I riage. Golostc'iokm i -tin a ;••!• eram to the Soviet leader- saving that li ' was bringing document- which would interest Ihe ( rutra I < Tieka. Will'll Golestehokovi's lelh'-w nas-cil-ger-; qile-.iinnod him. lie ’.epiied that the drums contained '-ample- cl wa; materials. General Dietrix dee- not know vital became of th,- ghastly luggage after it wa- delivered ;u Sverlov's house. The Grand Dm-he-s Elizabeth. '•'lio was the Kmprcs-V -i-:t , . , r. the ('rand Duke Serge, ami three .-oils of the (Dand Duke ( met nut i ue. were murdered the night after the T-ar was killed, being thrown alive into a deep abandoned iron mine near Alapnicvsk. The Grand Duke .Michael, the Tsars brother, was she,; in the forest near Bet in.

BRITISH POLITICS. I.OXDOX. October 22. The “Daily Telegraph's” Parliamentary eoriespotideiil says: The Conservative Party Conference at Plymouth j. expiated in leave a definite landmark in the histoly of the party. Ilicic will he a thorough examination of He police of preference, beyond Sir >’• Lloyd Cracme’s Confeicnco proposals. Mr Baldwin’s fiicuds emphasise that he is hound firmly by Mr Ronar Law s pledge, hut there aie grounds for hcl.cvin,' b,- will iuluinbrute a broail P"l----iey on which the judgment, of the ele«1( ; rs will be sought at some fiitiue The ''Morning Post” hints tlu'te are some members of the Cabinet who believe the pledge to have been unwise. It, is ie:lain, however, Mr Baldwins outline of future policy will >'e detinde and unmistakable, and one for "I" 1 '’ 1 the Conservatives may work with onthusiasm anil confidence.

PUOTKCTIOX OT’ HOM'D INDUSTRIESIjC'XDOX. October 22nd. The “Dailv Kxpress" savs: Mr Baldwin at Plymouth is expected to proVOKC the all-i omul pmteet loti of home industries by a scientific tartlf. but with no taxes on impoitcd wheat or me n ■ He will urge that revenue raised .rum ~ tariff to be pm on imported rn'inuracures shall be devoted, firstly. f> .subsidising shipping Demins lor goo, L from A'. -1 ralia and New Zealand: onlv. to provid'* a hotmly ol •;»•» J;"'' duetimi: thirdly, to M.hsiihnng Knipfre eotlon-gi owing and shipnieu. eAeliange agem-ies.

KOI!KAX S MASSACHKD. TOKIO. Ov' • 22. The ban hitb.erto imposed on reports of Hie massacre of Koreans during the ~ j v davs ol Hu- confusion after the quake owing „■ grossly ‘’grated rumours, is now lifted. It « -P- > that the deaths of Koreans at the hands of vigih.ni s and others ex-

.- 0 -,s and adjoining discriets. with the except ion of Toko, where the num,,r is not yet state,l. The poluc at Yokohama si.eeoeded in alford.ng protection to a large number <>t Koreans hv transferring them to ships in the '••irhoiir. A large number ol the pe. ■ eerrai„,s of the massaeres are under an-est and are ''eil.g examined by the P; '"' r ' SI! ANCriAI. Oet. 22. Advices from Tokio say that whik i • j ,i i .. <•!oisfitK’niMo num* it lulimtiod that a (onMULltl „e- of innocent Koreans were uias>acp.f oil'ieial reports assert that certain Kogans, individually or

were responsible for tooting, ineondiar- ' and other outrages, thereby atfordthe basis for alarmist rumours, wbk'b -rivallv accentuated the terrors „f the calamity and which led to acts of violence by self constituted defence hands. _____