MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1924, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN- AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

GREETINGS .KHOM SUN YAT ,SEN ? . PEKIN, January 28. Dr. Sun Yat Son has cabled Mr Mac Donald, the Biitish Premier, fraternal greetings and hailing the Labour Party’ aue-siou to power, as the marking of a new era. not only in English history, but in the secular affairs of the nations. Dr. Sun Yat Sen looks to Mr MacDonald to deal with China, not as if she is still the conquered station of the days of opium wars and the Boxer outbreak. hnl as the home of a people whose civilising work in Asia entitles tli,-in at least to the same treatment as is now accorded to nations whose sovereignty has been freed from pre-war letters. FILTPINO UNREST. MANILA, Jan. 27. The Philippine Constabulary, fighting a pitched battle with the Colornm tribesmen, "ho have been engaged in roving banditry, killed o I of the natives. and took a considerable number of them prisoners. ’I ho constabulai y. which has been concentrated in an effort to wipe out the lanatics. is proving to he not large enough to cope with the unrest, which, it is believed, will require the activities of the regular army, since it has inflated a large part of iho Southern Philippine legion