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Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

J Hen ter Telegrams, j SECURITY PACT CONFERENCE. BERNE. September 28. It was definitely decided that the Senn it v Part Conference will meet at I.oranio on I lie til t h of < letoher. CHURCH REUNION. (Received this day at 12 AO p in.) LONDON. September 29. The Anglican Free Chlirrh Conference, di'-eiissing reunion, published a memoranda wherein Anglicans point out that Nonconformist Ministers, while possessing spiritual reality and efficacy, lack the authority conferred by episcopal ordination. Ihe tree ehureh’s reply say that, ordination would not lie accent a bie. bill t lie- solution might be Iniincl m tvbal i- described as an extended com mission. The conference approved ol I lie - suggestion that the Nonconformist s cm entering the reunion should ehoo.-e rep resent a t ives who would be enuseeraled bishops, either by Anglican rite nr aeeeirding to an agreed torm. -neb ns a bishop’s authority to he limited to their own denomination. LABOUR COXUERENC E. AGAINST COMMUNIST DELEGATE.LONDON. September 9. The annual conference of the- I.idiom Party has opened at Liverpool. It D the largest in the history ol the movement. over a thousand delegates bein ' present. The principal question mu the proposal of I lie executive to exclude Communists from membership ol the party. Saklatvala was present as a visilur. Cramp was elected Chairman. lie emphasised Labour's fundamental task was nut tu wage war against anv class, hut to conquer circumstances giving rise to class warfare that actuallv existed and to transform

society by a patient construction, [e give work without bloodshed and violenre into a Co-operative rouminmvi-nlll' which would end waste, cruelly, misery and .suffering under the capitalistic system. It was for the conference hgive the lie io tic charge that the llri-ti-li Labour Movement was advancing oil the path of armed revolution. Cramp said he believed the policy of applying methods of force to affairs of a highly developed capitalist -late was a hundred years behind the time' and should be scrapped. Commoner Will Thorne, in presenting a report of the Standing OrderCommittee a u noli iced that Cook bail withdrawn bis nomination to the executive.

Dealing with the executive’s resolutiion declaring no Communist should lie a member of a section of any aliiliated local Labour "Pally, and no known Communist should he elected a delegate to the conference. Thorne alluded to the many Cote.mimisl resolutions therennont appearing on the agenda, lie said in view of the emphatic decision of the previous conferences that no Communists should he eligible for membership of the Labour Party or aa Labour Candidate for Parliament, that the executive decided to enforce the standing order that when a gen cral polirv lias been decided it should not reappear on the agenda lor three years, hut acceptance of the executive's resolutions could be discussed as a separate issue and if these were adopted no resolution relating to Communist affiliation would he ill order. A motion to refer bark to the Standing Orders Committee llm report in regard to Communist affiliation was defeated hv 2.1 Io I.IHIII votes to AAl.Oirtl. u EMPIRE PI? ETT.E EXCE. GREAT SCHEME IN' BRITAIN. (Received this day at RIM a.lit.l LONDON. Sept. 29. Mr Ben Morgan states that, the new Empire Industries Association. of which h" is one of l lie deputy-chair-men. begins immediately propaganda throughout Britain in favour ol Empire foodstuffs. The attempt would he the* largest and most popular editrational scheme on non-party lines, forming branches in each party constituency. with the issue ol local butlet ms giving Empire information. The Association will support Imperial i•:• -

fiM-emc candidates irrespective of party! Twenty thousand annually for live years bad already been promised. .Mr Morgan laid stress on the . cance that it was the lirsl time in the political hi-lory of Britain that the principal hankers and shipowners wore supporting the campaign for preference. Mr Murgatt pointed out. that fail'd lluusdou. Chairman of the Association, had boon a lifelong free trader

FRENCH I’O LI TICS. I'AIIIS, Sept. 29. Cabinet has accepted Mr l.yautey's resigna l ion. AI.GAKBSOX’S PARTY. LUX'BOX, Sept. 28. Friends of the Dunedinite Mr Hurt, chief engineer of the .steamer Island declare that a report from Washington that the MacMillan expedition recued .Mgarssuii’s Arctic l’arty in no. distress i- not authentic aml'xnsF.x lx l.oxnox. I.u.vno.x. September 29. A vast audience cheered Captain Amundsen when Icctui'Mig at the Central Hall at Westminster. The explorer said that the reaching of the Pole was not the greatest object ol his flight., because he always considered that I Vary was the lii'st mail to reach, the spot. The important point was the large area to he surveyed.

SON' I FT CONSCRIPTS. l.nxncx. September 28. The Riga correspondent of the "Times" states ilit- Soviet has decreed the calling up of conscripts ol the IPl'.'i class on the Ist of October. THE SYR!AX REVOLT. PIKRI'T. Sept. 28. Afler the relief of Sneda and the evacuation of the wounded cud sick, tin- French column wa- withdrawn I" the region of Mc-seitlre. as SoeUa wawithoilt water, ami also in order t < revietual and prepare lor I art Inn- operations. with the object ol subduing H'" remainder ol the hostile tide.-.. PARIS. Set n . 28. General Miehat, ahe commanded n column whii h. was annihilated in - rin by the Druses on i ■••• Hin d o! A'gust, has returned t> Marseilles. I-a-‘■Petit Parisian" stalls that during the vovuge to France the General declared' that he had Con given a ridiculous armv. incapable ol lighting. Mild composed ol a lev.' h I'etie ! met. trained and the re-1 natives, lie Mini--I hope 1 am court nmi'ttailed, tn order to justify this statement.