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Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z- CABLE ASSOCIATION. A me; EARTHQUAKE. CONSTANTIXO FL E, May II A violent earthquake is reported in the region of Erzerum. Several villages were destroyed. There were about fifty victims. The railways havo been damaged. JAPANESE RUSH.

TOK 10, May K. The paper "Ji.ii” stales that 2500 Japanese in Yokohama are frantieaTly endeavouring to engage passages to the United States in order to arrive prior to July 1, when the U.S.A. exclusion of Japanese becomes effective. 'The statement adds that tit least one thousand of these will be unable to secure passages bcivnsc of the limited passenger facilities.

THE AMRITSAR RIOTS. FURTHER EVIDENCE. (Received tnis dav at 0.25 a.m 1 LONDON, May 15. General lleynon in the course of his evidence in the O’Dwyer case, said he believed the Hogging of Indians was justified in certain eases. It was indicted with a cane, the maximum being thirty strokes. He would not apply l/ondon’s standards of punishment to Indian village people. The I ndians preferred imprisonment to Hogging as they disliked pain. The gaols were so luxurious that the diflieulty was to keep the fndians out of the prisons. General lleynon expressed the opinion that O’Dwyer had acted with absolute honesty and was punished for purely political reasons.

GOVERNS!ENT’S HOUSING SCHEME. [I!F.UTUIIS Telegrams.] IRoccivad this day at II) a.m.) LONDON, Slay 15. An important item in the Government’s housing policy is contained In a circular issued hv the Slinistry of Health to local authorities. This announces that an agreement was reached at tin; recent housing conference providing for a subsidy of £l3 10s annually for each bouse for a period ol forty years, the Government providing two-thirds and the local authorities the remaining third. It also stipulated rentals to he equal to pre-war levels.

LORD BURNEY INTERVIEWED /“Sydney Sun” Cables). /Received this day at 0.15 a.m.) LONDON. Slay 15. Commander Burney, interviewed, said: “J cannot say how soon the first airship will arrive in Australia or New Zealand. Everything depends upon the Air Ministry's energy in overcoming the initial difficulties in designing and testing. If my scheme had been accepted we would have made the first voyage to Australia within two

years, using wartime monitors as mobile bases at Singapore and on tlie Australian coast. Sly Airship Guarantee Company, hacked by \ ickers, owns the Ilowden airship station and could undertake any developments on behalf of Australia, New Zealand and the other dominions if we had been granted the subsidy. )\ e would need for Australia £3o:>,!>:>!> annually until the Anglo-Aiistrulian service was commercially successful. Ji the Dominions decide to inaugurate airship services to Britain there is no reason why they should start negotiations-now and Login building, when the Air Slinistry ami ourselves have completed the trial cats between England and India.

COLONIAL -INSTITUTE. [Reuters Telegrams.] 'Received this dav at 0.25 a.m.) LONDON, May 15. At the annual meeting of the Colonial Institute the Duke of Comm light was re-elected President, and l’rince Arthur of Connaught, the Earl ol Atlilone and Sir Harry Wilson. Nice Presidents.

SUN YAT SEN'S DEATH. ENEMA' MACHINATIONS. ("Sydney Sun” Cables). (Received this dnv at 12.45 p.m.) PEKING. May lb The belief in Sim Yat Sen's death, which has been general, is now emphatically contradicted and ridiculed by the Canton officials, who attribute the persistent reports to enemy niachinaious. The truth is that Sun Vat Sen collapsed under the strain of laborious exertions. He was ordered a complete rest, but has now recovered. • I)r Sun Yat Sen’s Get mint doctor corroborates this.

RO.MK. .May 10. At the opening of the International Conference in the presence of the King and members of the C.ihinel and diplomat ic rep resen tat i\ es. .M ussoliui welcomed the delegates I rum fiftynine States, lie stressed the necessity of collaboration for safeguarding the interests of emgirants and laws for their protection, which should la* in-pir-ed hv the principle of humanity and justice.

CKOI'P •SKTTI.KMKNT. LONDON, May IV. Addressing the largely attended Empire Migration Conference at the Empire Exhibition, presided over by bold ■Burnham, , Mr AL C. AlimNaugliteii (Chairman of the Overseas Settlement Committee) suggested that there was a elm nee for a wealthy philanthropist io present some hundreds of listening in sets to families settling in the backblocks to eliminate their loneliness. The Hon. J. B. Cllynes expressed the opinion that the most helpful and most successful form of migration was the group settlement of young men. lie advocated getting the assistance and counsel of the big trade organisations in Britain. There should he no element of. compulsion or appealing to poverty, fhe Government hoped to prove itself nowise inferior to’its predecessor in the encouragement given to migration. He believed that under appropriate conditions and fair terms the transference of the surplus population of Britain to other lands would he an advantage to the working classes remaining behind as well as an enormous personal advantage to the migrants.

ROUMANIAN KING LEAVES. LONDON. May 15. The King of Eoumnnia left for Bucharest this morning from Victoria Station. where he was accorded a farewell bv King George, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, Prince Henry and the Duke of Connaught. The Queen Koumania is remaining in England • Y for a fortnight. '