BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1924, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

IUBTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.

THE COMMUNIST AY RANG ME LONDON, January 23,

A message from Moscow, via Heist ngolrs, reports that ten thousand were arrested for causing a panic. Officially, the arrests arc ascribed to tho need of expelling undesirables in order to relieve the housing pressure, but really the arrests are connected with tbe present conflict among the Communists. ENI) OF RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS. [“Tin: Times” SnitviCr,.] LONDON. January 23. The “Times’’ Riga correspondent .say that many rumours are current concerning Trotsky. On one hand it ; s declared that although the Soviet doctors ordered a change of climate lie is still in Moscow. Other colleagues unwillingly kept Trotsky out of sight, keeping him confuted to his house under strict supervision. It lias been impossible, so lar, to verity tlic rumours. 111 the prevailing atmosphere nothing seems improbable. The triumvirate Stalin. Kamenefl', and. Zinovieff daily assert that tlio recent controversies served to cement the Communist party which is now more united than ever. This, however, is untrue. Discord is even more serious than has been reptcfiented and it may be said confidently that the disintegrating process has be- __ gun which will result in the total col- U lapse of the party, whose eml is, probably. only a matter of months.

INDIA’S CENSUS

DELHI, Jan. 22 The census report for the past, ten years gives the population of * India as lUs t below 319 inilliins. showing a small increase of 1.2 pc-r cent upon 'bo P I'V 'oils CO! \slt S. UNREST IN JAPAN. 7 OKIO. Jan. 22 Elaborate preparation!: and weeanic--- _-.- 3 made in connection _T.i, ,i--. p 5-731 wedding Twenty thousand troops and 5000 police .will line the streets. No traffic will be allowed along the route from an hour before tho wedding procession, and all the o|>|n*r storeys of tlio buildings along the route must be vacated. No person will be allowed to watch front an elevated position. The Fire Brigades have been ordered to be continuously oil duty until the Royal party departs from Tokio. Only the highest Japanese, with the foreign diplomats, will lie guests at the wedding banquet. The police are searching the houses ol suspects, and confiscating firearms. The press editorials express a hope that the Prince of Wales, a friend of tbe Regent, will soon follow his example and take a wife.

RECONSTRUCTION OF HUNGARY LONDON, Jan. 23.

The sub-committee of the League of Nations has concluded its work, as regards the financial reconstruction of Hungary, by unanimously accepting the loan proposals. These will he forwarded to the Reparations Commission for approval. The loan will ho of 250 million gold crowns, to ho used within two and a half years and repayable in twenty years, during which time treaty charges will bo limited. ■ The League will appoint a non-Allied general controller of certain securities upon which the Reparations Commission will raise liens to be pledged for service. The loan terms on Hie protocol which was drawn up. regarding the political conditions of the loan, provide that there shall he no political disturbances between Hungary and other nations.

110 AN FOR N.Z. LONDON. January 23. Sir .Tames Allen is visiting the various orphanages to choose, suitable l»oys under the wool profits fund for tlio <- settleinent of sailors’ orphans in New Zeahmd.

DEATH OF LENIN

AMERICAN TRIBUTES

WASHINGTON, January 22. A White House spokesman said thatPresident C'oolidgo hoped that Lenin’s work would somehow benefit Russia am! civilisation.

The President foresees no change in Russian pill icy towards the United States as the result of Lenin’s death, wherefore the United States policy will h.* unchanged.

However, officialdom in Washington unanimously regret Lenin’s passing believing that Russia would probably revere the mail for his innate honesty, and .sincerity, similar to America S Lincoln tradition. Senator Borah said that had lived Russia, in two or three would have returned to a sound economic footing and restored complete relationships with other countries. While Lenin made great mistakes ho aiso made great progress. Senator Ladd, who visited Russia last summer, said that Russia has lost her best friend, who had worked in the highest interests of the people. Mr Charles Smith, a member of the American Railway Commission’s Rns- , s ail Survey, said that Lenin’s deathwould make no difference. There were too many good men in Russia. There was no fear of disruption. Colonel Haskell, chief of the American Belief Administration during the Russian famine, said that, nothing would prevent Russia’s drift to capitalUm