MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1924, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

SPEECH BA' Ml! BRUCE. [ R l.l'l Klin TI'.I.KUItAMS. I (Keceivcl this day at 10.'Jo a.m.i LON DON, dan. L.i Air Bruce, in a speech at a. larewvll dinner at iiie Australian Natives Association. contended thot the peace ol the world or a reducl ion ol armaments was not jnomoted by Britain alone disarming, lie emphasised the need ol the Doniinions having a voice in the Empire's foreign policy, Imt it was necessary also that the Dominions should shoulder the obligations emailed and contribute to the defence of the Empire. The time had arrived to determine whether they were going to draw closer tlie links that were binding the limpire nr whether tlie Empire was to gradually break up into several independent nations. The Enipb" was as essential to Briiain as Brit ain w-i ■ to the Empire. TR. -Irenglh ni Ikminions was inn niieii torgoHee by Briiain. For mi" great mu ion In si lip i I seli nl tin' poiiels ol detmtee and eiifureemc'iit of will was mill > 11ec,Hinging oilier |>>wer- to im-t"asc armaments. We are iniming straight towards another heav> blunder like the unreasoning rvd'.i"!’"a >•! t - air ferve and by the Icitm' ing In ‘.le. csi alili'h mei) 1 of n. : ,g !, p tig ratio ol 5 5 ■< (i.-itu l • tl.. V u -I:;:v'gi ('..‘Ulereiif' is not cgi.t-.gt if ti'e. I’pc'ti': v hero without Sincancrt I base Britain would be unable effeett’,Ohio ]int a single capital ship. lie declared emphatically that unless the base were built in the I’ncilie, Britain would have to abdicate her position as a great naval power in the I’aeitie. He pointed out that American, .tajianese and British naval authorities Held that the capital ship was still a determining laf-t.or in naval warfare. lie contended that ihe maintenance of the world’s peace depended on the const ruction of Singapore l>n-e. It. was al-o an aid materially, to the eventual reduction of armaments throughout the world. Dealing with economic troubles in Britain, tie declared as tho result of his reneiil tour the people of Britain did not realise 1 lie possibilities of the Empire. He stres-ed 1 1 11 • necessity for stirring their imagination. He urged the resolutions of Ihe Ei oiinmil* Conference be carried out in their entirely mi the ground of p-ractieat expediency. Tlie giant sense of tlie Empire and unity nl Britain were not bound but he was unable to believe that any Government of any shade of political opinion would hesitate to enforce them.

BRITAIN AND GREECE. ATHENS. January Id. li a eoniniiniieation announcing the resumption of A.nglo-Greek diplomatic relations, herd Ctirzon slates the British Government has every coididenee in Venizelo- Ministry. SALVAGE OPERATIONS IMPOSSIBLE. LONDON. January 10. The Admiralty announces the wreck ~f l.'J! i- detiniicly located, but owing ‘o the position, salvage operations are impossible, and have been abandoned. SAVED BY SECRET POLICE. I .ON DON, January If. The “Daily Express" Berlin correspondent stares the secret, police I rustrated an attempt. on the life ol N on Scekt. the military dictator, hv arresting in a popular eaie a man whom thot alleged boltings to the gang which planned and carried out the assassinations of the ex-31 ini*tors Erzberger and Batlienau. TURNING OYER A NEW LEAK. LONDON, January 10. lf,o Salvation Army converts in order t i demonstrate their penitence, east their idols into a lion-fire in a brazier ::i one In Aberdeen's busiest streets before thousands of spectators. Ihe tire was fed with a continuous supply of pipe-, tobacco, cigarettes. |owdci pails, playing card* and card- hearing the names n,' other idols, including horse nuing. betting, theatres, cinemas, prize lighting, sensational novels and vhi-kv drinking. RUSSIA'S LEADERS ALL INSANE. LONDON. January 10.

Dean luge, lecturing in London, .-aid that a doctor, had diagnosed nearly ail Russia's red leaders as of unsound mind, the majority as alcoholics and I.,any a. addicted to drugs. Russia v., old soon become a State of peasantry. governed by military tyranny under another name. Ihe Dean said he thought the leaders v.cre really suftoifront contagious moral insanity. "If. as 1 believe, he said, “this poison actually contagious, it would lie justifiable to kill infected persons like mail dogs unless we prefer the more expensive and un-nfer way of imprisonment. We cannot allow moral poison to he scattered broadcast or allow fanatical minorities to conspire against the community.”

AffLUOXALRE GOES BANKRUPT LONDON, .January IG.

rTownnl ffouldor, sour., iigotl Go, and once a millionaire shipowner, and ship broker, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. His unexpected failure has caused a sensation iu the city. It is

the re.,nit of revel.' . in industrial ventures (luring the last four years. His unexpected failure has caused a .seiisntioi' in the city. His failure in no

way affects Howard Houlder mid partner- or the Houlder Blethers Company.

A proposal is being submitted to tho shareholders to sell the business of the ALiekie Company, whisky distillers, to ...c present shareholders for 11.300.000 il.e shareholders to form a new eniiljany. The White Hoisc Distilleries. Limited, a new company, will takeover the pr •■ciit stocks if whisky valued at. three mi.'limis for one and a half mil-