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Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1924, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z- CABLE ASSOCIATION. HERMAN" LOAN. LONDON. October 2. Or Luther. the (lernuui .Minister of Finance, has arrived in London in connection ■with the need in time; for the British i|iiotn. of the l):nves lonn of £100,000.000 to Dcrmany which quoin the ‘‘Doily Telegraph” diplomatic correspondent states will not exceed ten millions, though the nominnl figure may he higher. It i.s expected Hint Dutch, Swedish nnd Swiss hunks will under write live millions, nnd that Frame will take up about two millions, nnd Belgium one million.

ANDLTCAN C< INGRESS. LONDON. October I

Young undergraduates of hotli sexes attending the Church Congress, roundly criticised modern church tendencies. The speakers declared that there was no place for young people in the churches. Tliq majority of the nation’s youth were completely indifferent to religion. They wanted reality. and they harboured a suspicion that parsons were paid to preach doctrines they bad Ion;' ceased to believe in. Most congregations. it was asserted " were hotbeds of intrigue, jealousy, and haekhitiug. Tlie Clnireli Wardens’ wives, they said, tvere hypocritically friendly at the committee meetings and then they cut one another in the street, ’file youths were not favourably impressed when they saw professing Christians gambling on the Stock Exchange, underpaying their employees, and drawing revenue from slum properties. The C hurch had adopted three Pharisaical virtues, namely: comfort, popularity and .success.

The students threatened to start a oaniPaifj.il to set hymns in a lower tone, as fhe young men of to-day. they said, found that the church music was pitched over high.

‘ I! EOPENINC AT WEMBLEY. LONDON. (let. I. The Executive of the Association ol British ('handlers of Commerce has resolved to urire the re-opening of the Empire Exhibition in 1923. FIGHT FOB. AIOSUL. BAD 11 DA IV. Oct. I. British forces, assisted by friendly Kurdish tribesmen, are taking precautions to prevent, renewed attempts at Turkish incursions. All the Iraq police posts except one have been reoecupietl, and British aeroplanes are maintaining a vigilant watch. MINERS AND DAWKS’ PLAN. LONDON. Oct. I. The Miners’ Federation Executive and Air Ramsay .MacDonald had a long conference on the question of the effects of the Dawes Scheme on the British coal mining industry. The miners urged that the settlement of the reparations in coal should lie discontinued. The British industry already was in a state ol jeopardy, with one hundred thousand men workless. Mr MacDonald replied that the Almjstry had accepted the Dawes Plan, and they could not now modify it.

RUSSIAN TREATY DEADLOCK. LIBERALS AD A INST LABOUR. [“Tub Times” Service.! (Received this day at 9.2., a.m.) LONDON. Oct. 2. The “Times” political editor says the Liberal Party's Russian Treaty decision has entirely transformed t lapolitical situation, and it i.s now certain that the Treaty will he rejected if il still contains the scheme for a guaranteed loan. Mr .Macdonald must, accordingly, decide whether to scrap the present Treaty and set to work on an entirely new basis, or whether to accept the Libers'! challenge. Thu Labourite'" are in-lined I" lieve 1 that Ihe Liberals had not really meant to oppose the Treaty, but Mr Asquith’s motion leaves no room lor doubt that Mr Macdonald will have to make a decision with the knowledge that on this issue, at any rate, Hie party which put him in office is now perfectly ready to depose him.

AVAR- TX crux A. SHANGHAI, 0:-t. !. The town of I-ntifii is in names ui.l n considerable portion of it lias been destroyed. Tin- lire is suspected to lr. the work of Kiangsu agents. who me counuiH ing outrages in order to c-ieatc disturbances.

lire: BKOUESTS. LONDON, October 1. James Parr, an octogenarian bachelor livim: in a hnnible cottage m U’c poorest district of Manchester bas created a surprise by leaving -H-. to charity.

railway crash. COI.OtIXE. Oct. I. Ten were hilled and 32 injured in a radwny tunnel onlside Mavcncc owing 1 1, cal train dashing into tin u.n of the Basle express, which had stooped in consequence of loco,motive Double. A lire followed the crash.

INDIAN SITUATION SERTOI S. ’LONDON".- October 2. The “Times” special correspondent at Bengal declares that grave peiil /'•«;»- tens Bengal. perhaps all India in the j-liape of its revolutionary movement and he supplies details of the terrorist com pail'll "hieh inelmles assassinations. The correspondent says that firearms nro more easily obtained than formerly from Germany and Russia. throne i smugglers, Recruitment by the revolutionary organisation is prccoei.mg apace am! plenty of fr.nd.s are now available. The police have verified a vast amount of the information, providing the existence of a revolutionary conspiracy. The repeal of the laws empowering them t'> deal with suhers.vo literature, has rendered them powerless to check its distribution. The situation is ominous and the time is ripe for drastic steps to cheek this most serious menace.

JAPAN’S INTEREST IN CHINA. SHANGHAI. October 2. A further reference to Japan’s interests in Manchuria are contained in the following statement hv Yoshizawa (Japanese Minister at Fekin) in Uw l ' oUr f of an interview :-“Jafan;s principle is the niaintainTfig of strict neutrality. hut it- must he remembered that she has important rights aqd interests in Manchuria, which are greatly different to those she has in other parts of China. This is the Point which I hope will he kept fully in mind, both Ihy China and foreign powers. After mentioning that there had been two or throe bandit cases in the interior ot Manchuria as the icsult of the «ithdrawal of Chang Tsoi in’s troops to the front, Koshizawa continued that, taking into consideration the fact that AN upeifu will shortly proceed to the front, it may he inferred that the main fighting will occur soon. It is expected a practical issue regarding Japan’s special relations with China will arise after the entry of Chihli’s troops into Manchuria. For this reason. Japan is attaching much importance to the development of the war situation. Should Mukden troops he defeated and in the event of Chihlites entering Manchuria in pursuit, such an issue as referred to flbfmi, wpultl undoubtedly iil'K