BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[“Tire 'Limes” Service.]

MOROCCAN WAR. PARIS. May 30. A i tin' end of l lie three days’ debate on the Moroccan question, the chamber pas.-ed a vole of confidence in the Cm eminent by 537 votes to 21). The hugeness of the majority is due to the careful phVasing of the resolution, notably to meet the .susceptibilities of the Socialists, who stipulated inserting a reference to a pacific policy and the refolding ul ippo.xitinn to Colonial expansion.

COM M I'NIST CDNFF.RF.NCK. ihuce'ved this day at 8.30 a.in.) LONDON, May 31.

An extraordinary incident marked tl/e annual emigres.-, of tic- British Communist Party which i- being held at Ghi-guw. Two stranger-, made the morning sitting ultuo-l. unbearable.

Having obtained admittance by a subterfuge they distributed .stink powder. A feature of the Cotigre** was n pro. (ttxsion of children bearing a Hag inscribed “ Long Live Leninism.'’ Ibe Executive reported that the slo-

gan for the future would lie a mass party, which will lead the working ( In-yes against criilalism on class lines rejecting the reformism, of Labourites, such as .MacDonald, Clynes and Webb. The speakers especially attacked Messrs MacDonald. Thomas. Henderson, and Sir Jovnson llicks. A BISHOP'S ADDRESS. /Received this day at 12.20 p.m.) LONDON. May 31. Bishop Barnes of Birmingham, delivered a most striking address at a service held in connection with the

Institute of Public Health Congress at Brighton. Hi- said human welfare was n cw menaced by human fecundity. Civilisation "as in danger of being choked by human waste jrodm ts. The question arose whether the .social <on•seience "as now conniving at racial degeneration. The better (lasses were increasing slowly if at all. The victory of medicine and hygiene over nature’s destructive forces would he disastrous to the public welfare unless | a desire for many children which was natural and until recently, laudable, was held in check. He believed the limil had keen reached in the jxqmlalion of the British Isles. More might he done to prevent the present reck-, less ( li.ild hearing. It was gravely "rung that children swarmed in overcrowded slums. \ further increase in population must bo relieved by emigration. hut migrants must be worthy of the race-. It would he said that

parents with large families were obeying thy law. “To increase ami multiple and replenish the earth''. hut it was only evading serious thought to quote the te\i. wliieli was not applicable to modern conditions.

A I ST I! Aid A X GOVERNORGENERAL. tile, eived this day at 8 a.rn.) LONDON. May 31. The “News of the World ” states that .Major-General Sir John Baird, M.P. (the new Governor-General of Australia is taking the title of Baron Stnneham, from, the town in Aberdeenshire, where he has a country seat.

A writer in “Gossip” says that even a peerage will never efface the affectionate name of Johnny Baird from the memory of his old Parliamentary friends. hax(,ht:t to allkxisy. CAIRO, May 111. The Premier 'Ziwar Pasha) tendered a mugnilii I'll i banquet to Lord ATlenby before hi- departure. Lord Alleilby said he would never forget hi- old ami new friends. DPTY IN CHINA. LONDON, May :H. Discussing the situation in ( hinn, the “Times'' in a leader declares sum' 1 - I thing must he done quickly if order is ever to emerge from the present chaos. It is absurd that the Powers continue mere passive, depressed spectators. Merely to watch civil war is limping evasion of a clear duty. It is urgently necessary to eliminate habit of civil war at the earliest moment, hut this cannot he done by China alone. The Powers must co-operate. Britain has the strongest reasons for taking the initiative. The present opportunity is not merely favourable, hut. exigent. NOTE TO GERMANY. PARIS, Ma v 31.

The ‘•iltiViiV’ diplomatic correspondent confirms that Britain and France are virtually agreed in regard to the principal points of the note to Germany in reply to the German proposals for a ■security pact. It is thought the remaining details will lie settled ill time to enable a note to lie sent to Berlin within a fortnight. Britain declares her readiness to use all her strength to guarantee the integrity of the Rhine frontier, hut she refuses to pledge herself to military intervention in the event of Germany violating the Eastern frontiers, hut repeats her desire to faithfully fulfil her engagements under the peare treaties. Consequently, in the event of a conflict, she would probably ho brought to support diplomatically the claims of a State attacked.

Britain also admits that France has to retain complete liberty of action as conferred on her by the League Covenant in coming to the defence of tlm integrity of the eastern frontier. The militarv forces of France in this

case have t-> receive a free passage through Germany. A FEZ REPORT. PARTS. .May 31.

A Fez report says that Abdul Klim has European. Indian and Tunisian Army instructors. A report is eonfirmed that the Germans are in his immediate entourage. The Riffs are said’ to have gone to Hamburg to buy arms. German field dressings and medical supplies were picked up during the course of the recent fighting. Abdul Klim is reported to have recruited a number of German doctors and numbers of German tourists whose designation is unknown, and who arrived tit Ceuta and Totuan. BRITISH LEGION. LONDON. .Tune 1. In the presidential address at the opening of the eonicreuce at the British Legion, Earl llaig, welcomed Lord dellieoe as a valuable reinforeem -lit to the Legion, lie regretted the resolution passed at the roiitcreuce cf ‘‘ldao” in September last urging the collaboration of Allied ex-servicemen s association with ex-enemy organisations had not met with the wholehearted support of the Allies. He emphasised the Legion’s enormous rov - er for doing good h,v working to secure peace of the world by agreement co-operation and mutual goodwill: also by binding the Empire together by a chain of mutual goodwill and understanding.

Earl llaig mentioned that there had been an increases ot R)3 branches c,t the Legion and it was now the largest non-party organisation in the country. Prince Arthur of Connaught presented Earl llaig with the Legion's Royal Charter. Lord dellieoe said he would devote himself to helping the class- of emigrant who was willing to work the land, a class for which there was every opportunity in Amdniliq f.p4 New Zonlnml,