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Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1924, Page 3

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[Reuters Tei.eouams.] TIIIEPVAL NO MORE. (Received this day at 10. lit a.in.) PARIS, -May 2li. The authorities have deeided that Thiepval is to remain as a dead village, killed by the war ruins. It will I he kept as a memorial for all time. At first the scheme included lieaumonthamel and lienucfurt, hut now it locs been arranged to restore them. HLOCKS OF MILK. GENEVA, May 2(5. A Company lias been formed at Frigourg for the purpose of producing condensed milk in solid blocks. It is claimed that by the new proie.-s tile milk preserves, absolutely intact, all the qualities of fresh milk, entirely unulfcctcd. liy keeping it in blocks it does not require special parking. COLONIAL SECRETARY INDISPOSED. [ Rr.L'Ti’iiH Telecibams.] I cßeceived this dav at 10.ST a.m.) LONDON, .May 20. That -Mr J. 11. Thoma-was suddenly indisposed was announced to-day when for this reason a meeting between the Secretary of the Colonies and the I India Colonies Committee to consider the latter’s report on Kenya immigration, was postponed. .Mr Thomas is suffering from pleurisy and is under the care of a special-

ITALIAX ROYALTY IN LONDON LONDON, .May 2d Their Italian Majesties have arrive n London.

| M. POINCARE’S LAST .MOMENTS. I (.Received this dav at 10.<15 a.m.) PARIS, May 2(5. Councils-General met all over France to-day. M. Poincare, presiding at the Council-General ot the Meuse, delivered an address which may be regarded as the swan song of bis Premiership, lie said the recent elections were an expression ol disoontoul with the nearness of living and in nowise a disavowal of bis foreign policy which bis successors were? bound lo continue. He called on bis supporters to give the new Government lair play, lint to watch zealously the maintenance of [ essential natiolud interests, reparjitions security, budgeting bidnuec and individual liberties, lie defended the oe- I euputioii of the Ruhr, saying he would have much preferred hunt Allied instead ol a l , 'raneo-lielgi;in seizure, but President lln riling wrote him on Die 2(1 L 22 that the British opinion would not allow the British Government to adopt such a solution. PARIS, May 2(5. •M. Poincare added—The question of security was even more l important to France than the question of reparations. The sit nation to-day was ot the gravest. Germany undoubtedly was deliberately violating the treaty regarding rebuilding, war material am] military forniatinos. M. Poincare said he Intel eoniniunieated tin's information to the Allies. France must remain on her guard, lie would fight any Government showing weakness in this respect.

MT. EVEREST EXPEDITION, London. May 2b.' At the annua! meeting of the Royal Geographic-id Society, ('oninianiler Urnuk Wild was awarded the- patrons medal. In the Presidential address, the Earl of Eonjtldsluiv said the accounts thill had so tier been received from tho -Mount Everest mission were most satisfactory. He regretted that Colonel lirttee was invalided end he I eared that he would he* prevented from resuming command. ANGLO-T UR K X F.i I (i'l l ATIONS. A PRESENT DEADLOCK. [ R Kerens Ti•: t. t:c; uaj is . ] (Deceived this day at !J.2.j a.in.) CONSTANTINOPLE. May 2(5. Anglo-Turkish uegot iat ions which have been proceeding here .eme May 20th. relative tu the disputed territory of Mosul, ill present incorporated in Iraq, have reached a deadlock. Fetlii Bey on Delta 1T of Turkey is demanding the surrender of the whole district. Sir Percy Cox, on behalf of Britain

is insisting on the present frontier with slight modifications. The speeches at the four meetings held were practically a repetition of old arguments, exhausted at Lausanne, and in spite of the friendly atmosphere prevailing, no progress was made, as shown by the fact that the map handed to Sir P. Cox ibis morning merely establishes the frontier line the Turks claim in an unmodified form.

It is understood Cox has asked the (Tuveriiment. for instructions. Meanwhile no fresh meeting has been arranged. The failure to agree will mean the reference nl the question to the Council of the League of Nations, as provided in the Lausanne Treaty, which it is believed tho Turks are anxious to avoid. I!l!Il lSli All! DEFENCE. iJ’eceived this day at !• .15 a.m.) LONDON. .May ‘Jib It i> understood the Defence Committee recommends the establishment of twenty home defence air stations, involving the putting into commission of six hundred aeroplanes of the latest scouting and bundling types, aide to operate against raiders* liases. It also urged the re-establisliinetit of (ietteral Ashmore's system ol (.'otlm nets, comprising u circle of captive balloons around London, w herelnnii is suspended great lengths of weighted wire, which proved, 1 one of the greatest deterrents to night raiders in war time. Sir John Salmond is likely to he appointed to the Supreme eommand.