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Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1924, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CA-3LE ASSOCIATION, JAP INSI RANCH PROPOSAL. TDK JO, March fi. The I’rivy Council i.s unwilling to aeii'pt the Government's insurance proposal. The latter, il is understood. Las decided to pay a subsidy on its own responsibility, therafter obtaining the .sanction of the Diet. MOROCCAN WAR. LONDON. .March fi. Flesh lighting, in Morocco is foreshadowed in an announcement by tlie Spanish Embassy at London that 1000 reinforcements have been sent to eastern Monro, where a punitive operation against the rebels has been undertaken. The Embassy adds that tho rebels have been everywhere beaten off the advanced Spanish position, with less than fifty Spanish ea.-uali-The "Daily Mail's"’ Tangier correspondent report,, that the Rill’s, under the Kaid Alihehaino. who was educated in America, smashed the Spanish li'.es at Xiazza, and captured live convoys. taxing six hundred prisoners, and also shot down lour aeroplanes. The ret respondent asserts they' are rapidly mu: rounding Mclilla. WEMBLEY STRIKE. LONDON, March fi. There is trouble at Wembley Park over the employment of non-union labour. A strike lias been fixed for Saturday failing an agreement being reached at a meeting of the Enion delegate- and the employers to-morrow. BEATTY’S POSITION. LONDON, March fi. The renin t that Lord Beatty is resigning from the navv is unfounded, hut the normal term of his appointment is ending. MAJOR HAILEY. REMARKABLE LIKENESS. LONDON. March fi. The mistaken identity of Ibiiley was only revealed when the asylum authorities checked the measurements of the man sunpnsed to the wife murderer, which did not tally. Otherwise the) lunatic, who is an Italian named l.tiiei Belli, has a most reuiarkahie re-emb-j lance To Ibiiley. even lo a smashed fingor and a shrapnel -ear. Similarly his name al-o eonlrihit!od lo tho mistake. POINCARE'S THREAT. LONDON. March fi. The Times’ Paris correspondent I says M. Poincare told the Finance I Commission of Senate that if by Tiles-J day. tbe Commission lias not agreed on tbe full text, of tbe Fiscal Reform Bill he would place the resign, 'll inn of the Cabinet in the hands of the President.. The object of (bo Bill i- to deal with tbe financial crisis. M. Poitiearo'.s threat is tbe result ol the adoption by the Commission of recommendations generally tin Ia vn arable to granting tbe Government power to effect, administrative economies by tbe is.-tie of decrees. Tbe Commission declared itself in favour of the policy of economy, but a policy controlled by Parliament. Tbe situation tints (nulled was discussed by Ibe Council of Ministers. Later Ai. Poincare and M. Lastevric (Einaiiee Minisicr' intended the commission In exp.ain Die Guvcrnmi'ilt’s intentions w la'll At. Poincare made tbe above statement.

WIRELESS VI VATICAN. ROME. March fi. Workmen an- Imsy on tin- Vaticim root n- tailing >• oe! to -m.1.1c? the | -,,pc to li-.ten i". Hi-. ILI I n<- - 1 greatly pleas,*,l :,l Ibegd i. REFORMS IN ARM)'. LONDON. March 7. Apart from a decrease ol seven millions in expenditure, the most striking feature ol Labour's Army Estimates is an attempt to attract recruits. I his will be done b.v re-iutro,hieing a smarter lull dress uniform. It is also intended to provide titose regiments not now possessing full tires,; v itli smalt khaki jackets. and pipe-clayed belts, and also to restore to the .Scottish regime nts their historic- sporrans, coloured stockings, white gaitel's, taitali trousers, and Glengarry caps. As the .r-niv i not. -V,tII) below the establishment. the Army Council is ondeavour,,|o t,- increase the number of oflieer's. The Army Council has reduced the Sandhurst training course by eighteen months.

The Council has introduced promotion by merit. It i~ also attempting to remove the impression that a miltl;tiy <*niv«*r is II IKHTi *ll •! • Til,, estimates provide for sufficient new light tanks to eoinolele one new battalion, and to begin equipment ol a second battalion, ami also a second motor artillery brigade. WAR CEMETERIES. LONDON. March 7. Ml- 1 iabinu Ware- in a paper read 1,..f0re the Soc-itly of Arts on the war eelnteries sav- that the national desir,• the | inmiuioii is that their own trees -hoiild grow near their "Wn graves has resulted in eharmmg experiments at Tynecot ami Rasselmenilaele. where ll.R0!> lu '- A central German block-house forms the base of a cross ~i sacrifice. Tlter.-ou are 9(1.010 names of men who have no known graves. Mr Ware .says he has returned lull <>l admiration for the Gallipoli cemeteries. There are cemeteries there, some cm a ridge from which the '1 urks never dislodged the troops. A splendid view was obtainable from the pylon on which the names of fiS-19 Australian and UHL New Zoalaiders, all missing men. are inscribed. and also tlio.-e o| R-.-jOS Atistarlians and New Zealanders. who died at sea. As the ships pass through the Dardanelles tlmv will see on the high ground above Cape Hello, a monument- big as the Colosmis of Rhodes. eomilleliHirating either missing or dead. ll,eluding •J!HI Australians at 1 Idles. This monument will be completed in the autumn. I M MGR \t. Bo< 'KS. LONDON. March 7. Mr Henderson has informed the Ra'ris police that a large numher ot improper books and photogi aphs ai, coining into Britain from Raris. He j,. is a sited that stringent action be taken. The French police, thus tar, li;.ve arrested L'., and have made big ser/.ures of hooks. SLUMR IN FRANC’. LONDON.' March 7. After its recent temporary recovery, ,h _■ French franc has reached a new |„w record of 108 to £l. The Belgian franc is l'-MI to the CL A NEW K HAL IK. JERUSALEM, March 7. Jnssein King has been proclaimed Khalif of Mesopotamia, Trnnsjordania and TTedj'az,