BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 December 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

4C»TRALIAN AND N.i. GABL* A3HOOF A VIOS INDIAN'S AND EUROPEANS. (.Received this day at 9.2.3 a.in.) LONDON, December oil. According in Xairolii reports impnrlant decisions were taken at the East Alrican National Congress rjf Indians, who on the advice of President Ahdul "Wahid, who is the wealthiest Kenya Indian merchant, resolved to enter into full co-operation with Europeans for three years in the hope that permanent co-operation may he ensured. The decision embraces participation in Parliamentary and .Municipal Government on the fixed lia.sis of the abandonment of the non-co-operation policy an agreement to pay a poll tax. £ The Congress also resolved to advise Uganda Indians to agree to I’arliamenta" • reiiresentation. BRITAIN'S PENSION Ml Id,. LONDON, Dec. 30. Despite the five years since the end of the war £57,201 fresh nension claims were mafic in I Oil I. The aggregate number of pensions in connection with the war.have thus far totalled 2.010.01)0 awards, beneficiaries thereof numbering 11,525,000. Only 1.121,000 pensions * were operating in .March 1024 when there were 2,21 <i,ooft,beneficiaries, 205.000 being wivso and 730,000 children. About 30 per cent. r>f the awards thus far made to widows ceased owing to remarriages. The total expenditure in pensions for the vear amounted to 72,230,000. being £34.-115.000 below the maximum in 1921. INTER-ALLTED DKIiTS. I’AIU.S, December 30. 11l the Chamber, the l''iuanco .Minister, M. elemental, implicitly admitted the possibility that the iiiter-Allied debts would lie disused by the Finance Minister at the Conference in January, but lie promised that no decision would he binding until Parliament's assent had been secured. The .Finance Minister foreshadowed the support of America in her demand for a share in the reparations for material damage.

THE ‘'ECLAIR” INCIDENT. ■t (.Received this day at IMS a.m.) PARIS, December 30. In the Chamber, in answer to an interpellation, regarding the prosecution of*‘‘Re Eclair”, the Minister for Justice, in defending the Government's ac- * tion, declared that the restrictions on the liberty of the press applied to secret documents concerning the external safety of the State, lie assorted that incriminating documents, similar to those discovered in the ‘‘Eclair” office came from the archives of the public administration. The Government would have full light thrown on the nffa.ir and whoever was responsible for the leakage would he struck down, however highly placed. The debate was adjourned. ' ' CLYDEBANK EVICTIONS. LONDON, Dec. 30. Four exictions were carried out at Clydebank during the morning. They were witnessed by large crowds, but there was no domoustrntiou. I lie officers were compelled to shatter the .barricaded doors amidst the screams of the occupants. Scouts warned the neighbourhood. Hundreds of women and children were crying piteously. Crowds jeered and liooteTl the officers, especially in the fourth house whence agonising screams proceeded while the floor was pounded. The cvictors found the kitchen ha friended with sewing machine, tables and hods. The inmates rushed the officer ■when he penetrated to the interior, but ■l tile police came to the rescue and restored irder. REPAIRS TO DEVON. LONDON, Dec. 31. The Federal Steamship Company slate with reference to the. Devon that a fully equipped repair ship was despatched to Dakar where she arrives on Bth. January. It is anticipated that permanent repairs can he effected in three to four tlays, after which the Devon will proceed on her voyage. S ITCl T C G ESTER CON PER EN CE. "WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. President Coojidgo is hopeful hut not certain, that it’will he possible to hold . . another international naval disarmament conference within a year, whenever the time is propititious. Air CooljdA) will exert his inlluence to bring it|ubuut. He is unable to determine ivuVin it might he called, with lair prospects of success.