MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1924, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN ANU N.Z. GABLE ASSOCIATION,

SOVIET WANTS LABOR RETURNED

.MOSCOW, October 10

M. Zinovieff, in a remarkable speech at Moscow regarding Mr .MacDonald’s heartfelt desire for a continuance of Mr Premiership, expressed the lioJnhviks’ heartfelt desire for a continuance cl' Mr -MacDonald’s administration because it is under the pressure of revolutionary labour, lie asserted that Mr MacDonald's so-called lollowcr.s- fon ed liim to sign the Rusrian tieaties and release Campbell.

Zinovieff declared that it was now unnecessary to send agitators abroad, because enemies like Mr MacDonald had become their best agitators. WHANGED ISLAND RUSSIAN. [Reuters Telegrams.] (Received tHs day at 10.2.1 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 17. A wireless from Alaska states the Russian llag waves over Wrangel Island. The .Soviet authorities carried oil' all the American Eskimos from the Island and removed them as prisoners to Yladivostock. HEAD OF REPARATIONS. [Reuters Telegrams.] (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) PARIS, Del. 10. Seymour Gilbert, Permanent AgentGeneral for Reparations, has arrived in Paris from America. After conferring with Owen Young and the Reparation Commission he will go to Berlin ill a few day*. BELGIAN ATTITUDE. BRUSSELS. Oct. 10. The Belgian reply to Germany regarding admission to the League, sees no objection to Germany occupying a permanent seat in the Council, on the lidl'dment of certain provisions. UR USII WITH BANDITS. BUCHAREST, Oct. 10. Bipsian bandits came into collision with Roumanian troops in the village of Matarbuuar. Bessarabia. Ten Russians were killed and one wounded, and the remainder dispersed. The Roumanians sulfored no casualties. AMERICAN FLEET. THE COMING MANOEUVRES. (Received this day at 9.25 i.m.) WASHINGTON. Oct. 1!). The Naval Board of Strategy to-day revealed the purpose of the situation of the inaiieouvres off Hawaii, and the Australian cruise, which will compose of a strategic study, involving both land and sea forces, which are designed to furnish the basis for adequate national defence during the next decade.

Th elieads of the army and navy have already spent thee years enquiring into this question. The world war presented new phases, entirely upsetting their earlier conclusions. The problem now envisaged is a theoretical attempt by an enemy force to seize the Hawaiian group as the lirst stop in its eastern advance. The possibility of ejecting such a force before its position could he consolidated is the keynote of the problem. The battle fleet will play ill the attacking role, the defence of the islands being left to the army garrison, the National Guard and the reserve ul the naval shins attached to the lltli. district. which includes Hawaii.

The fear.that the moral elfecl ol the I’asliitigtoli Conference might he inillied if the proposed war names ol lawaii were staged immediately after ■ip agreement was reached, delayed lose manoeuvres for several years.

The Hawaiian problem is considered mly one of three phases, all of which lssunie an attica tedrkde 123-15012312 1 .-s ll mc' an attack directed against the |’ana 111 a Canal with the purpo-c of i‘ r . a ting some portion of the Amor.can en:d fortes. The nianoeiivn. ui 8'23 in the Pacific re,oiled in I mimi ■ii-i iinns for a strengl helling of I he cruiser forces of the ll“ot and air (ones to ire vent a possible surprise attack on he canal. The recent imusnouvres >fi* tlie - lean Sen indicated the' tl.c West lnlios olfered another string altar I.in./ ■pat. ...

Commenting on the Australian cruise naval officials agree that the performance r,f the licet uuon such an extended voyage and under forced conditions after arduous .service off Hawaii, will he particularly indicative of its strength or weakness.