MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1923, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. TAP IFF REFORM. MR BALDWIN'S POLICY ATTACKED LONDON, Nov. 5. The Rl lion J. R. CTyties, speaking at Sunderland, said that Labour was indebted to Mr lialdwin for hastening the advent of a Labour Coverument, for if .Mr lialdwin were empowered tu practice his new protection policy its failure to cure unemployment and whieh was an absolute certainty, would produce a national reaction against the futility of Toryism which would bring Labour into office. I,a hour recognised that free trade would not prevent unemployment but protection would cause more of it as the Anti-Dumping Act showed. Trade no longer followed Hie flag hut current international amity. Mr Asquith, speaking at Dewsbury declared that though conditions had changed since the last tariff reform campaign. They had changed in the direction of strengthening and not weakening the free trade ease. He believed the same process of definite and detailed interrogations whieh killed Mr Chamberlain's proposals in 190,‘5 would kill Mr Baldwin’s belated and half hi arted substitutes. SERBIA AND BULGARIA. BELGRADE, Nov. o In connection with the attack on Colonel Krashch, Serbia has sent Bulgaria. a forty-eight hour's nltimutun? demanding official apologies and tin honouring of Serbia’s Hag in Sofia b\ a detachment- of Bulgarian soldiers: also an official inquiry hv the Bulgaria!' authorities and exemplary publish input of the guilty parties. The question of an indemnity is to he submitted to the Court- of International Justice. T HE NEXT AM fit. KABUL, Nov. A. A son lias been born to the Amir of A I'glia nistmi.