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Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1925, Page 2

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[• Terrs Times” Service.] POLICE OFFICERS DISMISSED. DELHI, Juno 21. A report Laving been made tlml certain European officers in Bombay connived at the running of a gambling den, the Commissioner of Police at Bombay dismissed Hupt. I idler. Inspector Chapman and a Alahommedan deputy-inspector. 'I he European, ofliccrs had both records of long service. The ease created quite a scusat ion. SINGAPORE BASE. AN ADYIK ATE'S VIEWS. LONDON, June 2d. Vaughan Cornish, in 11 paper on “Singapore and Naval Geogtaphy. presented m the Royal Colonial Institute. oil Tuesday afternoon, points out that it is in North America and Australia. that her national status is a practical question for Japan, and it is mainly in the .Monsoon region of Asia, including India. China and Japan, that the problem, of achieving harmony of “colour" confronts the British Empire. Alter technically surveying the British Emnire’s strategical sea routes Air Cornish says: “One great remediable gap is at the passages to the Indian Ocean, between the East Indian Islands." lie therefore claims that Singapore is of paramount importance. ■ It is.' 1 lie say.-, ‘‘the British Navy’s new- Eastern capital. It is Lite meeting place of the maritime ways from north-west, north-east and south-west. It is also a haven on the airways, and is realK- a necessary aerodrome between India and Australia. The word ■ Singapore ’ lias come to have assoeiat ions with the White Australian poli,.v. which is described, not in a critical spirit, as an effort to prevent the i-on-,‘vsted Asiatic populations colonising Australia's einptv lands. Actually it does not do so, because the Asiatic c'silie lots empty lands at his own count rv’s doors. A naval base at Singapore will ensure Britain’s voice being beard in the settlement of affairs in China. The view that the naval project there is provocative ignores an essential fact, that unless communications across the Indian Ocean aro secured, a united British Empire call enty continue In the sullranee of for■oil'll powers. ’

r.S.A. FLEET cnriKK. HONOI.rLF, June 22. With all preparations completed the F.S.A. Fleet is awaiting the final word for its departure for Australia. Admiral Count/, the commander, ioferuled the Australian Press Association that there was now little likelihood ol tittv further changes in tho plans. There had been an earlier report that tho proposal to send the Eight Cruiser Squadrons tel llobattli.id been cancelled, duo to the inability of the vessels to make the trip ami rejoin their detachment for tho vi-it to Wellington within the time available, lmt Admiral Countt: denied this report, and declared that tho trio to Hobart would be made. Tim Admiral expressed satisfaction if;,! be was linallv able to arrange upon tin- request of the Governor-Gen-eral of New Zealand, for the Destroyer Squadrons Eleven and Twelve to visit Dunedin and Lyttelton. J Admiral Count/, said :—" Alter out long rest here. wo are desirous of slartii! - '' ihe cruise. AA <* will, altei twenty-two days at sea, be ready for another turn ashore, and this will ho especially delightful, since we will j pen be in Australia.' 1

LONDON FIRES. 'LONDON, June 22. A lire at the West Ham Workhouse Infirmary at midnight imperilled one hundred aged, bedridden patients. While the infirmary’s volunteer brigade wore lighting the flames. tho AI ast or of the workhouse, attired in his pyjamas, directed the removal of the patients by the nurses, who, as calmly as if it were ordinary routine, removed all to safety. LONDON, June 2d. The biggest London fire since Madame Tussaud’s waxworks Are broke out early this morning in a tiinlier yard surrounded by small shops and houses. The occupants of the houses were awakened, hut had no time to dross, and they abandoned tlioir homes carrying limit- children. Their furniture was piled up in the streets. LORD .1 EL 1.1 COE AND N.Z. LONDON, Juno 22. At the New Zealand annual dinner, End .iellieoe referred to his unforgettable time in New Zealand. He was telling everv wretched Englishman that he did not know what sport is until lie tackled the New Zealand trout and deer. His wife was worrying Iter friends, insisting that there was no butter like that of Now Zealand, and no wool to prevent inlluen/a like New Zealand wool, lie wished that Now Zealand could absorb fifty times more immigrants, so as to enable more people to eniti.v that wonderful eounl ry. BRITISH LABOUR.

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LONDON. June 23. .Mr Cook. Secretary of the .Miners’ Federation, .speaking at Farmborough, said: •'! am going to organise a moi.tb's holiday for all the workers in Britain That is the revolution I want. Next week the Government will face a first-class economic crisis.” LONDON, June 23. Tlie railway companies have called a, meeting of all grades to consider the financial position. It Is stated that they will propose [ a voluntary reduction in wages, from the management downwards. ■:LONDON, June 22. Xir Robert Horne, ALP., speaking at Dover, expressed the opinion that the only permanent cure for Britain’s hies would he a vast scheme of emigration to the Dominions. nt:\y Zealand dinner. LONDON, June 22. At the New Zealanders annual dinner here, the sequence <;( which was interrupted since 1911, Sir .las. Allen presided, and the guests included Air Ainery. Lord .lellieoe, Lord Islington. Lord Itanfurly, Lord Liverpool, Lord Clarendon. Sir Thomas Parkinson, Air AY. lVntVr Reeves, and tho other Dominion High Commissioners. Air Coates. Prime Minister, cabled cordial greetings, adding:—''New Zealand stands four-square with tho .Mother Country in all making for Empire unity. It will lte my earnest effort to carry oil the Imperial policy Air Massey ardently followed.”