BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Renter I elegrams.] OBITUARY. LUMBER KING’S DEATH. OTTAWA, Dec-ember 8. The death is anonuncecl of John R. Booth, the Cawlian lumber king, and multi-millionaire, aged 98. His granddaughter married Prince Erik of Denmark. JAPANESE POLI TICS. -TOKYO, Dec. 11. The Government Party presented a. resolution to the Premier censuring the Government for failing to act to prevent the present development in the Manchurian situation, and advising that steps he taken to protect Japanese interests. The Premier is expected to announce his own views •shortly. War Office advices from Harbin report Russian troops on the Chinese frontier are apparently being reinforced, though the reason is not certain. THE COAL SUBSIDY. COST TO THE COUNTRY. (Received this day at. 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 10. Tu the House of Commons the Hon. Winston Churchill, speaking on the supplementary vote of nine millions for a subvention in aid of coal trade wages, said he thought the cost to the country would he between twenty and twenty-one millions for nine months. If their best hopes were realised the gap between the cost of production and the export prices would disappear when the subvention ended. “Was it too much to hope?” asked the Chancellor, “ that the parties would get together and grapple with the problem so that the trade would regain its old independent position; but for the subvention we would be standing amid the ruins of our prosperity.”