MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1925, Page 1

MISCELL ANEOUS.

.Australia & X.Z. Cable Association.] RUDYARD KIPLING ILL. LONDON, Dec. 2. Rudyard Kipling is ill with bronchial pneumonia at Wishome, in Burwash, Sussex. LIBERAL UNITY. LONDON, Dec. 2. Mr Lloyd George speaking at a ’Li--I,oral dinner at the House of Commons. in proposing the health of the Earl of Oxford (Asquith) said: ‘‘lf [ am tot obstacle to Liberal unity, I am prepared to withdraw. I do not want to he the cause of the Liberal Party failing to get together.” The Earl of Oxford said there was no reason why anyone should contemplate withdrawal. What they had to do was to try to work together. IIH OR BARS FOR, MUSIC HALLS. LONDON, Dee. 2. The London County Council has resolved to restore the liquor bars in all music halls.

DEMANDS REJECTED. CATRO. Dee. 2

Following oil apparently friendly conversations with M. Do .Tonvenal, who is at present in Cairo, members of the Syro-Palostininn Committee petitioned him demanding the withdrawal of the Ereneh from Syria, the abolition of the mandate and the establishment, of a national Government. M. Do. .Touvcnnl rejected the demands, pointing out that France had not the slightest intention of renouncing the mandate, warning the committee that their acting was calculated to seriously aggravate the Svrian .situation.

TROTSKY BACK AGAIN. RIGA, Dec. 2

The rojwrts of Trotsky’s rehabilitation has been received with unexpected confirmation. His old opponents, Kainenelf. speaking at the Communist Conference at Rosloff. declared the misunderstandings between Trotsky and the Communist. Party’s central committee had been cleared up and Trotsky will shorllv resume active work.

INDIAN PRISON MUTINY. DELHI, Dee. 2

A Calcutta message reports that a serious mutiny, led by a prisoner who had been sentenced to death for murder, occurred in the gaol at Pyapon. The prisoners overpowered the guards, seized their arms and engaged the gaol authorities in a pitched battle, only surrendering when the leader was killed, after the deputy commissioner and the military police had surrounded the gaol. Five prisoners and four warders wore killed and twenty prisoners and four warders injured. U.S.A. DESTROYERS GO TO SHANGHAI. MANILA, Dee. 2 Throe United States destroyers have gone to Shanghai with three hundred marines. FRENCH SOCIALISTS’ MANIFESTO. PARIS, Dec. 2. The Socialists’ Party has issued a manifesto declaring its readiness to collaborate with the Democratic parties, which it has always helped and supported. hut so far a.s collaboration with the Government is concerned, it cannot submit to appointments to -Ministerial portfolios in accordance with Pai'litinentnry strength. The manifesto concludes with an appeal to all sections of Labour to fight to the death.

HEATED DEBATE IN RlOl Cl! STAC. BERLIN, December 2. There was a heated debate in the Reichstag on motions dealing with the indemnification of the ox-ruling houses of Cermany. The Communists submitted a hill advocating the appropriation without compensation, of all the property of the ex-ruling princes. They ■ alleged llu* ancestors of the ex-rulers had amassed properly estimated at from two and a-linlf to three milliards of marks by robbery and swindling. The Socialist deputy, Herr Reheideinniin. declared that a million unemployed were starving, and yet the nation was expected to pay hundreds of millions to Princes who mainly were blameworthy for the people’s misery. PAYING 'ITALY’S DEBT. ROME, 'December 2. Over eighty million lire has been already subscribed for the payment of Italy’s debt to the United States, in response to an appeal made by Premier Mussolini and the Chamber of a popular contribution of one million dollars before December Ist. The amount received is thus nearly four times what was asked. GREECE TO PAY. GENEVA, December 2. The League’s Commission of Inquiry definitely declares Greece was responsible, and recommends that she pay Bulgaria thirty thousand pounds for the material damage, also fifteen thousand as a, moral indemnity in respect of the loss of lives in the recent frontier trouble.

SEARCH FOR SUNK SUBMARINE. LONDON, December :1. The Admiralty announces that the diving in connection with the sunken submarine “M.V’ lias been discontinued. as no positive result has been obtained. It is not considered necessary to prolong the search, as the cause of the loss has been fully established. A COLLIERY DISASTER. BERLIN. December 2.

Five were killed and twelve seriously injured in an explosion in the Lothrin gen mine, Docbun. Thirty others were entombed, but they were rescued. NO NOBEL PEACE PRIZES. OSLO, December 2. The Norwegian Storhing’s Nobel Committee has decided not to award any Nobel Peace Prko in 1925. Last year’s Pence Prise also was not awarded. BRITAIN AND DISARMAMENT. LONDON, December 2. In the House of Commons, Sir Austen Chamberlain, replying to a question, said that the Government certainly would proceed with any disarmament negotiations in consultation with India and the Dominions. The “Daily Telegraph” editorial!}- 1 enodrses Lord Jellicoe’s plea (cabled yesterday) for closer and more effective co-operation of the whole Empire in naval defence. It emphasises that the plea embodies his experiences of a world tour after the war, and as Gov-ernor-General of New Zealand.