MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 December 1924, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[Reuters Telegrams.] WAGE 1 NCR BASES WANTED. LONDON, December HI. Tollowing the rnilwaymon’s example many trades, including the miners, engineers and shipbuilders are demanding increases of one puuud week Iv, aggre-* gating one hundred million. INDIA’S NATIONAL DEBT. DELHI. December IL The Government of India has accepted u scheme for the redemption of her national debt by the payment annually, Inr live years, of forty million rupees at. the rate of one shilling and fourpence per rupee. FRANCE’S DEFENSIVE TREATIES. PAI!IS, December 11. Era nee is continuing her policy of deI'Misive military treaties with Central European countries .surrounding Germany. AT. Xinchitch, Foreign Minister ol Jugo-Slavia, arrived to negotiate a treaty preparatory to the Serbian Sovereigns visiting Baris. He is also consulting with AT. Harriot with a view to combating the Bolshevik propaganda which is extensive in Jugo-Slavia.

FRENCH NOTE TO SPAIN. PARIS, December I Tlio “Petit .Parision" states M. 11c*rI'int liiis despatched a note to Madrid i <>f| uost in«r in form jitioii as to llio extent of the Spanish evacuation in Morocco, linintinp out the evacuation is contrary to tlk* .Frauco-Spanish treaties, as it exposes the frontier of the adjoining territory occupied hv France. THE DAWES SCHEME. HEREIN, December 11. The individual obligations of German industrial concerns under the Dawes scheme has been fixed at seventeen per cent of the value of plant and properly HEROIC WOMEN. CAPETOWN. December 11. Survivors ol the C'ipal have reached Mauritius. r l he priest on the doomed vessel pronounced the benediction. The women were marvellously heroic and knell with their rosaries in their hands. 'I lie raft was surrounded by sharks. Tinned sardines was the only food they had for three days. •lAP V ESS |.;e AO ROI END. TOKIO, December 11. The special service vessel Kwanto of Tsurupa durinp u blizzard. She was broken by heavy seas and sank. I he Tsurupa carried a complement of one hundred and fifty, whereof fiftysix including the captain were taken oil' by warships. It is believed that forty landed on the coast. Eipht bodies have been recovered, but the fate of the remainder at present is unknown. Two destroyers are standinp by, but rescue work is preatly hampered by the roupli seas. ItOKH’S EATEST RECORDS. STOCKIIOE.M, December M. \\ orld's records are claimed by Arno burp for swimmiiip the free style four hundred meters in Imin dl.7secs., and three hundred yards in .‘imin I7sers.