BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1924, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

l"Il Kin kus Tekkcuams.] RFKSIAX RELEGATION'S REPORT. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, December 21. The preliminary report of the Labour deputation from Russia occupies a column on the main page of the “Observer” and it is likely to be the subject of acute controversy. The full report is promised in a few weeks. The delegates state specially that Russia has almost balanced her budget and restored her productivatv, relatively to pre-war standards at a rate eamparing favourably with the general Kuropean average. A new housing scheme is making provision for the erection of model cottages superior to some of the Government houses provided in Britain and they are to be pushed forward with energy and ability. A great effort is being made to eliminate illiteracy. Church disestablishment and no religious instruction are being given in the schools, but there is no interference with religious freedom. Prostitution, gambling and other vices are being rapidly eliminated by educational effort ami drastic State regulations. Millions of now capital could- ho properly and safely invested in the development of Russia's enormous economic possibilities

FALSE XEM'S. PARIS, December 20 M. ITorriot. in a statement concerning the reports of the discovery of Communist plots in France, condemns what he describes as the daily publication of false news. He says the Government does not need any urging to keep a watch on agitators on foreign matters. In fact, the maintenance of order has In-Mil in no way troubled, but tlie press campaigns are of such a nature as to injure the material and moral credit of Frame. The country was unmoved by the real perils of the war, and it will not be troubled by imaginary tierils.

BRITISH SCHOONER ARRESTED. (Received this day at S a.m.) XFAY YORK. December 20. The British schooner. J. Duffy, with liquor valued at eight hundred thousand dollars, and a crew of eight Britishers. was captured by a coastguard destroyer and towed in to New London, Connecticut.