BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 September 1924, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reciters Telegrams.] HINDI'S AND MOSLEMS CLASH. DELHI. September 11. Ll-foeling between Hindus and Aloliamiiie, lans at Koliat terminated in tinting. It is re; orie l that twenty htive been killed. Toe bazaars were looted and binned. A military lot*, e has l ean sent from Peshawar to ij'.'.dl the outbreaks. FATAL RIOTING. 11 UNO LI LU, Sept. 10 Tiire-? police and fourteen Filipinos were killed ill rioting in connection with labour troubles at llihtia-Kanai.

LOAN FOR GERMANY. l ARIS, '.Sept. 11. Inc ijtiestiiiii of Flench jarticijialion in the forty millions lean to Gel- * many is exciting i ontroversv. Air Mellon (Secretary of the Treasury of the I'nitoil States) has had a oonfeicnco with the bankers. He urged that tho - v lean is less intended as a benefit t*i Germany tiuui to j.ut Europe on its feet by linaiicing the re; a rations. He suggested that France should take tlj> a small pm lion, say live-per cent., in dollars, >.) that theoretically she would he lending to America, instead of to Germany. It is believed this suggestion "ill be adopted hut there is no enthusiasm. ARGF.NTINE WOOL. ANTW'FIt lb September 10. Hig'nl thousand hales of River Plate wool wore olferod at the sales here. Oik* third were sold. The prices show a ten pr cent. rise. France and England were the principal buyers. ‘•SOCIALISM?’ LONDON. Sent. 10. In the introduction to a book o:t "Socialism.” Mr Ramsay .MacDonald writes:—"lt is good that workmen should not tolerate unjust industrial conditions, hut, in struggling to obtain their end, they should nut forget that they are interdependent members of society, and, by injuring society, they are injuring themselves. Doles, l’ojilarism, strikes, and limitation of flit* output are not socialism. Socialists look with misgiving mum recent developments in industrial conflicts which contrary to the spirit cf socialism. are immoral and uneconomic, ami will lead to disaster.” HESSIAN TREATY DF.N'tH'NC'F.D. LONDON, Sept. 10. Tn a speech ut I’ciiniuenmaur, Air Lloyd George denounced the Russian Treaty as a fake and a folly. The Premier, he said, had been held up by "Socialist gunmen.” It was an act of criminal carelessness to guarantee huge sums to bo spent by the organisers of anarchy. The Liberal Party would forfeit the resjieet of the nation if it shirked this challenge. 'Hie Goveinment, he said, would suffer an unjiaralleled defeat if it apjtealed to the count rv on the Russian Treaty.

Mr l'.loyil George he supported ihe Government's Irish policy, and be al-D upjirnvo.l of the recently publish'd letter of Lord Birkenhead, which had interpreted ihe boundary clause* of tln* Anglo-Irish Treaty as meaning ~nlv minor frontier rectifications. He sai.l he could nut imagine that an eminent South African Judge, when called upon to interpret the Irish Treaty, would come to an unreasonable* decision which uv.uhi tear tip Ulster’s territory.