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Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. MOROCCAN AVAR. AIADR.TD, July C. A communique from Alorocco mentions that a company of Native regulars reconnoitring encountered a tronchful. of klmki-clads whom they mistook for comrades, hut they were really the enemy who opened a sustained fire. The company was almost decimated. The native troops of the Foreign Legion lost four hundred in the recent fighting. TARIFF AGITATION. LONDON, July (i. Lord Birkenhead, addressing a Canadian gathering declared that Parliament’s decision in regard to Tariff Preference did not represent the views of the people of England. He asserted tho decision was not only revocable, hut would lie revoked, lie continued: “We do not seek to involve you in our domestic dispute, hut I ask you to take back to Canada this message, that the decision regarding Imperial preference was taken in the teeth of our protest. There exists in Britain many men with power recommending their view to British electors who are still awnro of tho incomparable resources of the mighty dominions,' njul of the advantages of the preference which you voluntarily gave many years I ago, and who, on the moral side, never forget that Canada, like Australia, in I

the greatest crisis in history, ranged herself on our side with an unquenchable spirit of courage. First and foremost nrnong imperial postulates, I put this: There must be absolute equality between the daughter States and the

Homo country. There is no question of dictating any policy on either side.” UNREST IN MEXICO. .MEXICO CITY, July 6. A vote is being taken to-day as to whether the new President is to he Flores or Calcs. AVhichcver wins, Oli.regon will probably remain the real power behind the throne. Armoured ears maintained order. AAI.ERICAN FLYERS. DELHI, July 7. The American aviators have left Karachi for Charbar. GERMAN TENDER. LONDON, July 6. A Cairo correspondent understands tho Ministry of communications has decided to accept a German tender for the enlargement of Port Suez. FRENCH OPPOSITION. PARIS, July fi. The Opposition have launched a big nnti-Herriot offensive. The extremists are demanding the immediate overthrow of tho Government. The more moderato Opposition arc trying to prevent AT. Heriott from going to London until he has reassured the public that French interests arc not to he sacrificed at tho Conference. Af. Herriot, in a speech at Troyes, declared that the Allied experts’ reparations report offered Franco the best chance of-securing peace and payment. Ho deplored the Opposition efforts to distort and belittle the character of the Chequers Court meeting. He stated that the Government’s method was to pursue what unites, not w hat divides.

NIGHT BAKfXG. GENEVA, .Jul.v Tlie Night Unking Convention oeiines the rest period from ten sit night to five in the morning, or, alternatively from eleven to nix. ITALY AND CONFERENCE. LONDON, .July 6. The Rome correspondent of the “Times” says that political circles are disinclined t.o attach much • political importance to the storm in l’aris over Air AlncDonald’s memorandum on the London Conference. The Italian Government quite definitely takes the view that the memorandum simply expressed the British viewpoint and no undertaking to agree thereto was involved. It is understood however, that the suggestions are favourably regarded. CHINA’S I’ll EM IKK. PEKING, July 7. The President submitted Wy Ken’s name to Parliament as the Permanent Premier. Voting on the matter may lie carried out on Tuesday, hut it will lie necessary for Parliament to first hold informal discussions, which may delay the official vote.

MR -MACDONALD TO CO TO PARIS. (Received this (lav at 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, July 7. A Paris correspondent states that Air .MacDonald goes to Paris to-mor-row to confer with .M. Herriot. A AVAR MEMORIAL. [Reuters Telegrams.} (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) PARIS, July 7. In the presence of Lords Crewe, and Ypres, Sir Fahrinn "Ware. many Allied officers, British and French spectators, the Prince of Wales accompanied hv Prince Henry and M. Dnumorguc unveiled a tablet at Notre Dame in memory of the British dead in , the war, erected by the Imperial War Graves Commission, as representing the whole .of the Empire, the various parts of which shared in the cost" proportionately to the number of dead from each. AIRMEN’S JOURNEY. TOKTO, July 7. Mucl.aren has arrived at Kasiimi-

DELHI, July 7. The American aviators have reached Chajbar.

AUSTRIANS CLASH. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) VIENNA, July 7. Elovon persons were wounded in a street- fight between Monarchists and Social Democrats, at Clostcrnenberg last evening. The Monarchist, storm troops armed with revolvers, daggers, bayonets and eluhs, apparently deliberately provoked a gathering of Socialists, who in view of the large number of spectators present, endeavoured to prevent a disturbance, but the Monnrchsits fired some fifty shots into the crowd and then took refuge in the engineers’ barrack, which enraged the crowd, who tried to storm it. Order was finally restored. RIFFS BESIEGE SPANIARDS. - (Received this dnv at 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 7. The “Daily Chronicle's" Morocco correspondent states the Rills have liesieged the Spanish garrison at the river Lau and heavy fighting extended over the week. Heliograph messages from the garrison report a serious shortage of water, tho wounded suffering terribly. F Aaeroplanes made vain endeavours to relieve by dropping ice. Tho Riffs are making determined efforts to capture the garrison. Tho Spaniards admit heavy casualties, hut no fear of surrendor.