IRISH AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1924, Page 2

IRISH AFFAIRS

VCBTR* LIAN AND N.Z- TABLE ASSOCIATION

Cf.BTF.lt MOI'NDARY. LONDON, July 29.

The Daily Telegraph’s Parliamentary correspondent foreshadows that a Judicial Committee are likely to decide that the Irish Boundary Commission cannot ho legally constituted without an rlsler representative. It adds that the Government are already considering the possibility of immediate legislation which "dll obviously he severely controversial.

anthrax f.pldemtc. ; MORTALITY IN A ALE RICA. NEW YORK. July 29. A telegram from Memphis, in 'len-lio-see. states that an epidemic of anthrax is sweeping the Flutes ol Arkansas. Tennessee and Mississippi, ami has caused the deaths of twenty persons, and has killed more than a thousand head of live stock. The local State and Federal officers are mobilising all the means available to cheek the scourge.

'Pile Inter-State Anthrax Conference has been railed to devise methods to combat the plague, and to centralise the demands upon Washington for emergency relief appropriations. The local authorities are faced with turther difficulties. because the negroes refuse to bury the dead animals lest they themselves contract the disease.

Special ordinances have been passed requiring the dead animals to he burned together with the waggons ill which they are moved.

Meanwhile, all persons capable of administering anti-toxins to animals have been pressed into service. The authorities state that tbe disease is spread from the carcases by llii's. dogs .and vultures. Mr Llovd George said he was glad that Ibis'.subject bad been raised, because it was of vital importance'to the unity, strength, and continued existence’of the Empire. The war had made a great diJl’urence. The sacrifices which Dab Dominions made from 1914 to 1918 were greater than any made by Britain in any war since tile Napoleonic tvai. when the Dominions put a million men in the field, and these men probably were the decisive factor in "bat happened. If was impossible not to comply with the Dominions’ demand that henceforward they should he consulted in foreign policy, which commits them in such an enormous sacrifice. It bad been diiiicult to get the Departments to understand the lull moaning ol that change The matter was most important when olio considered the difficulties that their well-wishers in the Dominions have in always carrying tins whole of their public opinion along with them on the Imperial issue. They ill Britain should he careful not to give the slightest- offence. Fntil that M'ienl iticall v shortened, the difficulty would remain. The Colonial Olltco vote was oarried.

The Daily Chronicle approves ol an October Conference, though it says it is a belated decirioii. It should have been summoned helore the present London Conference, instead ol altei it. There was plontv ol time if Alt' MacDonald thought of it. The Dominions’ demand wits entirely just and must be met,