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Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[Rectum Telf.ci<am9.] PARIS TAXES VISITORS. LONDON. April Hi. A Baris correspondent says that the Municipal Council has decided to tax foreigners visiting Paris. If the visitor remains more than two days, he will be required to obtain a permit, for which a fee of 20 francs will lie payable. A permit will be valid for four months. If the visitor stays more than four months lie must exchange a permit for an identity card, which is already obligatory on resident foreigners, and for which the fee in future will be 50 francs, instead of 20, as at present. XiK'AV PARTY TACTICS. LONDON. April 15. A meeting of Liberal Al.P.’s discussed the attitude of Labour towards the Liberal Party, particularly the action of Labour in attacking the Liberals in the latter’s constituencies. Air Lloyd George expressed the view that the time had come for the Liberals to reconsider their position in relation to the Government. The Socialists were treating the Liberals with contempt in the House of Commons, and in the constituencies. The Liberals must have their own policy.

Mr Asquith expressed similar views, and advocated a, lighting spirit in the party. The Liberals will meet alter Easter to settle their party tactics. THE CREEK ELECTIONS. [“Tun Times” Seuyici:.] (Received this dav at 19.20 a.m.) LONDON, April 10 The Athens correspondent of the “Times” says the returns show that the Republicans secured a majority of (58 per eent throughout Greece. It is generally recognised the plebiscite was conducted fairly and the result genuinely iavours a. Republic. " The Monarchists have taken thendefeat with good grace but admit that they misinterpreted the sentiments of the people. j A N.Z. CRITIC. | (Received this dav at 11-25 a.m.) LONDON, April 1(5. Sir George Fenwick was impressed by the vastness and potentiality of tiie exhibition and more impressed by London .trallic which although more congested than a few years ago still moves easily, compared with American cities. Fenwick . cites the Woolworth building of New York where only fourteen thousand people enter am leave dailv compared with twenty-five thousand who enter the Government of lice in White Hall. Fenwick is unstinted in his eulogy of the London policeman’.- brains and coolness. Nevertheless London should watch New York’s methods of introducing one way traffic. A HOLD-UP. -LONDON, April 16, Armed men held up the staff of James Street Post Office, Dublin, with revolvers and decamped with a large sum of money. BUILDING TRADE TROUBLE. LONDON. April 16.

A crisis in the building trade nffeetiu.r seven hundred thousand workers is threatened. The men demand an increase of wages of two-pence per hour The emolovore offered an advance of one half penny per hour: A conference of building trades unions m London decided to" submit the employers offer to a ballot.

BAR ON JAPS. TOKYO, April 16. Government officials state they accept the American exclusion verdict with calm regret, believing it is based upon a vast misconception of the Japanese situation. They will take no further steps at present .waiting tor a later opportunity to induce the removal of the exclusion bar. A section of the press is advocating a boycott against the State of California, which is regarded as the whole cause of the anti-Japanese action. The papers urge a refusal of Japanese ships to use Californian ports and also urge ie people to refuse to buy Californian products,

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DELHI, April 16,

The Swarajist loader Das was elected Alayor of Calcutta for the ensuing year defeating his European opponent by 59 votes to 13. Das, in a speech, denied that the co-operation would l>e antiEuropenu or that his party, intended to obstruct the city’s affairs. He outlined a constructive programme including education, medical relief, improved housing, sanitation and suburban development.

Q UAK E PA 11 TICUJ ,-A ITS. DELHI, April 18.

AVorld-wide cable reports of.an extraordinary violent earthquake shock on the 14th. are exciting much comment in Calcutta, where the Indian observatory recorded a shock at the time corresponding with those given by observatories in Europe. Calcutta seismologists first opinion is that the shock took place in the bed of the Indian Ocean sixteen hundred miles from Calcutta. The shock was so intense that the needle of the seismograph was put out of action, as happened on the occasion of the Tokiu disaster in September.