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Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1924, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. BISHOPS M ANII'ESTU. LONDON, January 11. -V manifesto has been issued hy the Bishops ol Lisidield, Woolwich. Winchester, Chelmsford. Liverpool. Manchester, St Albans, and Southampton, on behalf of the Industrial Christian Fellowship, formed in lb2l), to bring religious influence to hear on industrial and social problems. It states :- "It is no exaggeration to sav that the Church is presented to-day with the greatest opportunity since Pentecost, it only it can ell'eri ivcly proclaim the Kingdom of (toil to slate.sinen, employers, (jniti'ilci's. combines, trade unioiil-U. ami labourers, a- offering the key to the true rehuioii-diip of man to man. and ol nation to nation, li is time that every pulpit reference to public question- 1 ceased to he called politics. This word is often Used disparagingly ol the purest and most elementary application of Christian Ethics to alfairs. The Church should seek freedom Irmii party polities, hut every pulpit should resound with national polities. Avarice, an unwillingness to work hard, and a sellisli illdifference to others’ feelings. lie at the root of our political end economical evils. Against thi-.se as well as dishonesty and tempera nee, the Church ought to warn men, and declare the Cosped as a remedy.

(lIUNUK BAIR. MEMORIAL COMPLETED. LONDON, .1 na. 10. The New Zealand War Memorial at Cliunuk Bair. Gallipoli, is completed except for Hie inscription. The monument i- easily visible in clear weather from Capo Holies. A SHOOTING AEERAY. (Received Ibis day at 11.2 d a.m.) PARIS. .lan. I I. A eoiiilicl between anarchists and communists dm- to a i|Unrrc! whether Moscow should dictate the Socialist policy of Eranee, resulted in four being dead from bullet wounds and twelve wounded by revolvers. Another twenty were beaten severely with life preservers. A man with a liouih lattooeil eu Isis forehead started the fray, .shouting, •■Down with Communists,'’ causing another to shout, "Down with anarchists.” Finally the police had lo rush the Iniidilng where they found a number dead and many wounded lying in pools of blood.