BRITISH & FOREIGN HEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1924, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN HEWS

[Reuters Tei.egrams.] THE MOUOCCAN AV AR. MADRID, Septcn'ier 21. A communique admits the Spanish looses in Mon:ei o are lousiderahic hut I.ocorti oiiately small considering the importance of the advance in the western zone in consequence of the enemy concentration in the French zone. A Spanish column successfully raided M tal/.a in order to demonstrate the mobility of the Spanish forces.

JAP SHIPPING STRIKE. TOKIO, September 22. Dissatisfaction amongst the officers employees of the Nippon A useii Kaisha culminated ill the resignation of a large number of employees, both locally and abroad. The resignations include managers and suh-nianagcrs of branch offices in Japan, India, China, Seattle, Now York, London, Liverpool and Hamburg and also a number of executive officers at the head office.

The trouble is stated to have arisen alter the dismissal of certain officials, following •.‘.pon their protest against the present policy of management. A oenfercnce of the directors has been called to discuss the position.

AY HITE SLAVERY. LnNDON. September 21. The “Morning Post’s" Vienna cor-re-pondc-r.t says thaL sixty delegates attended an International Congress for the suppression of white slavery in tho HDili - and Ruhr districts. It resulted in a violent (irMisien between the German and French delegates. A German delegate described the French action as a disgrace to the civiliv.’.l world. The French and Belgians vigorously protested against the accusation. An Iv lglisli delegate propsed that all the Governments ratify the convention of 1!)21. RUSSIAN TREATY CONDEMNED LONDON. Sept. 21. Mr Asquith has added his voice to tin- coiiilemiiation ol the Russian Treatv, in the course of a letter to a correspondent, in which he especially condemns the projected loan for Burma as being unprecedented in British history .while he asserts the Treaty generallv settled nothing, but leaves the whole future to a chapter of accidents. Mr Asquith opines that the AngloRussian relations cannot he put oil* businesslike lines, secured hv adequate safeguards by “crude experience in I he nursery of diplomacy.”

DRY LAW OPPOSITION. MANILA. September 22. Il is understood that the Philippine Govonimeiil intends to protest against the application of the American Liquor haws respecting shipping, which is regarded as an undue interference with loca| autonomy. A SHOCKING TRAGEDY. LONDON, September 21. A shocking tragedy lias occurred on a farm at Diiudoiiald, in Ayrshire. A party of men and women were engaged there as potato gatherers. They slept in a partitioned loft over the ham. A lire broke out at 1 o’clock in the morning'. The r.ciipants ol the loft made a frenzied search for a small ladder, in which lay their only means ol escape, hut the smoke obscured the outlet. The result was that five women and four men were incinerated. GEORGIAN REVOLT. \ PARIS, September 21. A telegram to the Georgian Legation here stales that in the districts of Zougdidi and Senake, and along the. River Koih.r, thousands of insurgents have held up the advance of the Soviet troops, wilh which Communist detachments. organised outside Georgia, are fighting. ■ CONSTANTINOPLE, Sent. 21. The Soviet has already executed two thousand belonging to all classes in Goregia. in order to extinguish the revolution. [Reuters Telegrams.] deceived this day at 8 a.nt.) PEKIN, September 22. The flier, /.mini. Inis arrived at llol.gKoiig. REQUEST TO MR MAC DONALD. • ißeceived this day at 0.25 a.m.) LONDON, September 22. The Federation of British Industries in a letter to Mr MacDonald, points nioiit tilt* danger of completing a cornmen ial with Germany without consulting i he Trade Advisory Committee, created by bis Cabinet. FILM disaster. SMYRNA, Sept. 21. The ignition of a cinema film caused a terrible IIOU aiist*. Over one hundred people perished, including the Turkish Premier’s sister-in-law.