BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1924, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

[Reuters Telegrams.]

BISLEY SHOOTING

PARIS, July 14

At Bisley, Australian prize winners ill the “Daily Graphic” match were Shearing and Alattjieson sixty-eight, Calvert and- AlcXaughton sixty-seven. In the Duke of Cambridge competition Davies scored forty-seven.

SINGAPORE DOCK. LONDON, July 14

Tn the .House of Lords, Lord Chelmsford, replying to a question said that the Government was not standing still with reference to Singapore. It was still exploring the situation. He added that since Air Ramsay AlacDonaltl's statement of A!arch 18th. last, the United .States. Japan, France and Italy must have considered the position.

Ixml Haldane said he admitted that Singapore was wholly outside tho tiotiudary fixed in the Washington Treaty, and also admitted Australia and New Zealand’s displeasure at tho Government’s decision. The question, he said, was what would be the effect on the Government’s general foreign policy if a new base at Singapore were established which might he an instrument of olfencc as well as defence, indeed, something dominating tho whole Pacific. The Government was endeavouring to keep the Navy efficient. Lord Haldane said, but the Singapore project went beyond that. It added a new weapon one which it was not good for naval advocates to possess. The establishment of a new naval base such a.s this would bo irreconcilable with the Government’s foreign • policy, which aimed at making the world a better world. That policy might fail, but it was the policy whereon the Government meant to stand or fall. Lord Linlithgow said that tho cOuttr try had not lieen treated fairly with reference to Singapore. He was of opinion that the abandonment wrs more of a gesture to Labour extremists than u» any foreign power. ZAGIILUL PASHA. LONDON, July 11. Al.r Ramsay AiacDonald replying to *4 Air Lttmley, said that Premier Zaghlul Pasha had expressed readiness to enter into negotiations with the British Government, but the date for a meeting luul not yet been fixed. CAIRO, July 11. Documents have been discovered suggesting that the conspiracy against Premier Zeghlul was hatched in Berlin. TV II AT FM PI RE AI FANS. LONDON. July To. lit lion J. IT. Thomas (Colonial Secretary) speaking at the Advertising Convention Banquet, said: "Wc are not going to gauge success of the Em~ piro Exhibition by the balance sheet, but by the opportunity it lias given . millions of our fellow men anil women to understand what Empire mean*, and even more by the chance given to millions of school children to obtain it better understanding of the Empire than ever thev could from text books.”

.Mr Churchilll said that alter all, tho Umpire was only a model of what they hoped the whole world will conic to, though not under any single flag. “AAV hope.” he said, “that some day Ihc whole world will become related as harmoniously and will quarrel as moderately as do the various states and policies grouped within the circle of the Umpire.”

LUX UR lES TO BE TAXED. TDK 10, July 12. Tho Tariff Bill, which passed tho Lower House, despite strenuous protests of the Opposition, carries the S'eivukni recommendation that domestically produced luxuries he subject to a tax similar to that at present proposed. Also that the tariff he revised as occasion warrants.