BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 February 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

liY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. PACIFIC CABLE. CANADA’S THREAT. LONDON, Fch. 8. The Australian Press Association learns that the dispute between Canada and the Pacific Cable Board must soon he settled one way or the other. Sir Charles Murphy, the Canadian Postmaster-General's pamphlet has at ) last boon published throughout Canada, ami it will possibly produce a full dress debate in the Canadian Parliament. No Canadian representative has attended the Pacific Cable- Board Meetings in London for - -sue months, but a factor leading up to a present attempt- at conciliation is the Canadian Government’s intimation that it will not facilitate the landing of a duplicate cable on Canadian soil. Members of the Board do not regard this threat very seriously, feeling that Canada cannot long persist in such an extreme measure. They trust that conciliation will have succeeded before tile coil- -y tractors are ready in October for join-'-"'' ing up the new line with Bamfiekl. Apart from attempts at settlement here, it is expected that Sir Campbell Stuart, now in the West Indies, on the Pacific Cable Board’s business, will go to Ottawa, and use his influence towards a settlement. If Canada persists in her determination to withdraw from the Board, this, can only ho done legislatively, after a discussion hv the Imperial Conference. The Australian Press Association leariis that Canada’s most serious objection is to the income that Australia makes from the landing charges, whereas Canada does not derive one penny from the landing.

FRENCH GOVERNMENT DEFEATED

PARIS. Feb. 9. The Briund Government has been defeated by 287 votes to 233 in the Chamber of Deputies on its proposal to ((impel the transformation of exchange bearer into inscribed bonds in order to prevent the evasion of income tax. The Government lias no jn- | tention of resigning. : DON’T FLIRT. ADVICE TO LABOUR. LONDON, Feb. 9. The ‘'Morning Post" comments on Mr Ramsay MacDonald’s dictum that there is an urgent need for Labour missionaries in the colonies, where the people are being deceived by the Tory fictions. The “Morning Post” says: “ I he Dominion politicians are not in the habit of taking fictions for facts. Ibe Australians, of whom Mr MacDonald seems to especially complain, are vitally interested in the safety of eastern communications. They know how the Socialists crabbed the Singapore project. Mr MacDonald himself has just had another (ling regarding the use (it Trincomali as a, naval base. If the Socialists want to be popular in Australia and New Zealand, they should not disregard their saftey or the attitude of Labour towards Imperial preference, the recent shipping strike, and other difficulties. Mr MacDonald is also shocked that the colonies take the Red “bogey,” seriously. Jf Labour wants a good opinion in the Dominions, it should cease flirting with ' Britain’s enemies.”

, BATTLE WITH POLICE. LONDON, Feb. 7. One thousand unemployed men had a three-hours’ fight with tho police. The unemployed were attempting to seize the Camberwell Workhouse with a view to establishing therein a Communal Home, following on the demand for higher relief. The master of the workhouse being ill, his wife was in t charge. She telephoned the authorities and police were rushed from all districts to the scene. Eventually the police dispersed the crowd with their truncheons. A number were slightly injured on Isitli sides. The shopkeepers nearby boarded up their windows.