MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1924, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. GERMAN DELEGATES LEAVE. BERLIN, Aug. I. The German delegation left for London ibis morning. WAR MEMORIAL ENVEILEI). (-Received this day at 10.25 a.in.) CAPETOWN, Aug. I A war memorial wa- unveiled hy the Duke of Athlolie in the pre-mice of a representative gat tiering. MACHINE ABANDONED. LONDON, Aug. (. Wade- machine was abandoned alter capsizing in a heavy sea. MAGI.AREN'S MISHAP. MACHINE BADLY DAMAGED. VANC'OPVEIL Aug. I. A wire!. -- from Mael.nren nt Nikolski Stales that 1 lie wing-, floats and tail ol hi- machine are smashed. •Spares are unavailable and it "ill he nece-snry 'to ahandnii Hie llighl. The hull and engine were salvaged and taken aboard the trawler Thiepval. The machine fell near Nikolski oil Saturday a- MacLiiron about to complete hi- llighl Imm IVtropavlov-k. The Thiepval reached Nikolski on Saturday evening, having hurried from Pel ropavlnv-k alter the plane had depart. d from there on Thursday.

Alai l.aieti in later messages slates that owing to thick log he was In reed to descend near the Koinandorsk Islands. damaging the machine seriously. He will return liv way ol \ aneotiver in the Thiepval.

A RUSSIAN’S STATEMENT

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(Received this day at 11 a.in.) LONDON. August I.

The Russian delegate Baihaloll. addressing a Social Democratic I'Vdcration gathering at .Manchester scathingly exposed the results ol Bolshevism. He declared fifty-live per cent of the worker's were unemployed. "ages were low and the cost ol living was high. Another famine was threatened and housing and sanitary condition: wore horrible. Education was decreasing, the works of ‘lol-toi and other great writm.s were banned, mid only Communist literature was allowed in toe libraries. The Soviet was trampling underfoot I he | riuciple- of Socialism and Democracy and bitterly persecuting Socialists of whom fifty thousand were imprisoned, two hundred exiled, w hile an emu moils number of executions were carried cut on charges of espionage. These were ehiolly intellectuals, business men and workers.

SIR GEORGE EEN'VICK. LONDON. Augii-t 4. Sir George and l.ady Eeuwiek will be passenger.- in the Maloga. sailing on 2flth. Sej tendier. WAR ANNIVERSARY LONDON, Aug 1 i.-t I. 'The Earl of Ypres headed a delegation of the Ypres League "his li man lied in procession t.n ' pro.- markets and laid wreaths on the ruins, in commemoration of Britain'* entry into the war. DELICATE NEGOTIATIONS. LONDON, August 5 Bird Haldane in Ihe House ol Lords, said the Irish negotiations were too delicate to permit of a statement in lc. made helo:\\ ediiesiiav. WORLD FLIGHT. WASHING!OX. August B The War Depart mold announce:! that if Wades’ inaeliiiie (annul- he repaired. he is definitely out ol the world llighl.

\ngi..<>-si)Yikt (dxi-erent e : DENOUNCED. LONDON. Aug. I. The. “Times” Riga correspondent says that in what lie him-ell call- a fiery greeting to the new graduates ol he military stall' college, /.innvicll' denounces tlie London OoiilVreme. He declares that Mr McDonald and M. llerriut are fool- wlm imagine that peace is po—ihle without a proletarian revolution. Al. Xinovicli-assured the voting ollicer- that -iich I’a cl hist elloits would inevitably lead to another world eoiitlagrnlion in which Russia’s revolutionary forces would finally bury capitalisin' if you must foster among Russia’s armed youth the greatest hatred of capitalism, a hatred such as makes the eyes sparkle. Xinovicff’s heroic* coim idc with the so-called week of anti-war protest, in which "the favourite slogan i- that the Bed Army’s mission i- overthrown. The Governments in other count l ies, and neighbouring Stale- arc growing uneasy, wondering if it i- merely bluster or a 'serious threat.