BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 February 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

f Reuteks Tfj.kohams. ] LENIN'S WIFE'S I!E(,)FEST. MONU-MENTS NOT AVANTED. .MOSCOW, Jan. 31. Afadamc Krupskaya, Lenin's wife, in a public reply to innumerable messages of condolence, requests that there be no waste of money on monuments in honour of Lenin’s outer personality. She says that Lenin eared little for stu.di tilings and she asks the workmen to establish and endow nurseries, clinics, hospitals and schools. Before this message was published the All ’Russian Central Committee had ordered the erection of monuments iu six cdties. LUXOR KINDS, ißeceived this day at !). Id a.m.) LONDON. January 31. A Luxor correspondent reports Ihe work of dismantling the shrines is | rneeotling its rapidly as eomlitions periuil- ■ .... ted. Luxor is fast filling up, the river arriving with full complements passengers. Carter unwrapped a bundle of sticks and stave hows lound in the first shrine which proved to be heavy with gold, and silver lulling ot goigcoiis workmaiisiiip. charming examples of the eighteenth dynasty metal workers’ craft. When Ihe gold stub was washed. il* beauty was rentalkable. ’Die, whole lint! constitutes one of the most renuirkahle colled ions ul royal uppurtcmuiccs jut seen. * JAI’AKESE 'J i.il G j (Received this clay at 12.25 p.m.) T** TOKIQ, January 30 Twelve professional thugs, a da;:. . easily hired i*i Jku’tt’t forced their yay into the villa of .Prince baiouji, and Alatsukatu, the last of the Genro or elder statesmen, demamling that each sign agreement to resign the Genroship, abandon Court titles and positions, and resign membership of the House ot Peers. Both statesmen are aged and ill. Matsuknta who is still suffeiiug from earthquake injuries, agreed to consider the de'mand.s. The thugs then procccded'in a motor ear in the direction of Count Hirata’s villa, which the police, who were forewarned wore heavily guarding. So far the person of (knro Imre been almost as sacred as "the Emperor. A delegation representing the Baron's Holies of Peers called on the Premier advising the immediate resignation of the Premier. It is uncertain whether to support either House.

GERMAN UNEMPLOYED. BERLIN. .February 30,

Unemployed receiving reliol' in the unoccupied teri'itorios have risen ro IJnii!]ion. It is semi-official ly ostinuiLed i.liere are four to five millions miemployed or short timers in Goriiuiny. At a meetilift of the British Cli.unhor of Commerce at Cologne, the c-hair-inan stated the past year had been di.s----/m-rons to British traders in the oceiijij(i(l territories, except for forward engagements. The severe license lestrietions, and the Clerman Government’s foreign exchange prohibitions, rendered the import of British goods, almost impossible. The refusal of the Gorman Government to reimburse British, the twenty-six per cent reparations duty, lias been especially a severe blow. It lias become impossible to place future orders.

THI! FLOATLVG DOCK. 'Received this day at 12.-15 p.m.) LONDON, January UO. jjjfvnl circles point out that the tloating dock was originally towed to C’haiJijiin in sections and other sections ol the dock were added, making the dock suitable. MALTA, January 31. In vie"' of the battle squadron of #tlio Atlantic fleet, shortly joining the oMditerrnnean fleet, the second Gorman floating dock is available at Malta in the event of the larger one going to Singapore, whether it could he towed in eight sections, minimising the risks of the voyage. Opponents of the scheme interpret the Admiralty floating dock proposal as merely an attempt to achieve the end gradually, hv outmanoeuvring the Labour Government. '"T, HOUSING PROBLEM. (Received this day at 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, February 1. A private conference of the executives of building trade unions passed a reso-4&C-ion in hearty support of the Government s desire to deal v ith the the housing problem. Mr 'Wheatley addressed the conference explaining the difficulties to he surmounted. The ‘“Daily News’’ learned that Government is preparing a comprehensive Scheme for organising the building industry nationally, over a fairly long period, with a guarantee of continuity of employment for trade unionists, thereby overcoming unionists previous Tactions to the augmentation of skilled labour by the employment of trained men who have not served the usual apprenticeship. VENIZELOS RESIGNING. ATHENS, February 31. Veniaselos is resigning the Premiership almost immediately, owing to ill-health There is great uncertainty what politic c(i) development will ensue.