MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1926, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] BRITISH ENGINEER STRIKE. LONDON. March 10. A mass meeting of the Hoc strikers rejected a recommendation from the executives of (lie unions to return to work. They resolved they would not resume until the non-unionists were removed, and a substantial im tense in wages is assured. The executives have called a meeting to consider disciplinary action. LONDON, March 10. As the result of a meeting of members of the executive of seven unions concerned in the line dispute and Sir Allan Smith, the Chairman of the Employers' Federation, the emploxeis have agreed to defer the operation of their lockout notices until March 18th. BRITISH TRADE RECOVERY. LONDON. March 10. A big fall in imports and an increase ill exports is shown by the Board of Trade returns for February. 'I bo import- were worth £9(5.815.01:0. and the exports £ft>,Bl 1.0011. compared with £117.089.000 and £00.880.000 respectively in the month of January. At the tallow sales 801 casks wore offered, .and -HU sold. Prices were unchanged. A RECORD .FLIGHT. LONDON. March 10. From London to Paris in an hour and I wenty-nine minutes is a record (light for a passenger plane carrying eleven, together with luggage and mails, the average sliced being 150 miles an hour. IRISH R TIP PELICANS. LONDON,' March 11. A Sinn Fein meeting at Dublin by 221 J votes to 218 defeated a motion by Mr De Valera, favouring the entry of Republican members to Iho Dail Eireann if the oath of allegiance were dropped. GERMAN (NDFSTRY IN RAD WAY. LONDON. March 10. Mr Renwiek in a second article in the "Daily Chronicle” on German trade, says: “T have already dealt with the position of the workers. The situation of the employers i- equally tragic. The big industrial establishments must hear the blame lor the had economic' policy of the past lew years. First, they extended their factories and shipbuilding yards during the war time, imagining that a victorious Germany alter the war "'111111! receive the hulk of tho world's orders. Secondly, they carried on extensions in the inflation period, without bringing their machinery up-to-date. Thirdly, when the inflation ceased, they kept on turning out vast quantities of goods, for w!uch there was not markets. Fourthly, they borrowed money, including part of the Dawes Plan and squandered it unprodtictively. This waste continues. When wo remember the ta burdens that arc the result of unbelievable freakish extravagance and overstaffed bureaucratic; departments, it is obvious that German industries are in tile l position that is no enviable.” Mr Remvick adds :—-Their policy resulted in a thousand bankruptcies mnntlilv in 1925. The figures lor ,fniiuiirv last "'ere 8779. and for February 8720. Though these figures include many worthless mushroom growths, many long-established firms have shared a similar fate. Though the manufacturers agree that they must make higher quality goods, this has not been done in most lines. Foreign buyers are finding British goods superior. The German wireless manufacturers admit their British competitors are technically two years in front and British

motor cars arc admitted to he twice as good as the Germans, fn pre-war times the shares of the German companies that were officially quoted on the stock exchange as wort’ll twentylive thousand million gold marks are to-day worth, together with many ol those newly-formed companies an aggregate of (5500 gold marks. AVFTY DE YALE ft A RESIGNED. LONDON, March 11. Mr Do Valera lias resigned the presidency of the Sinn Fein party. Mr De Valera’s resignation followed the defeat, at Dublin, by 9 to 8, ol his motion Llmt the Republicans should enter both the Irish Parliaments il the oath of allegiance was abolished.

A committee is considering Sinn Fein’s political future.

CHINESE TURMOIL PEKING. March 11. Reports from Tientsin state that a® a result of representations on the subject of the mines sunk at the river mouth at Taku, made by the Consular body, tlw Kuoiuincluin authorities have now arranged that ships displaying special signals will be allowed to enter and leave the river during daylight. The Diplomatic Body has protested to the Foreign Office against Peking being cut off from the sea in violation of the protocol of 1901;

HOSPITAL STAFF COMPELLED

TO STRIKE. PEKING. -March 11. The self-constituted hospital section of the Miscellaneous AVorkers’ 1 nion. stating that it was acting tinder the orders of the Agricultural and Labourers’ Commission, colored the Canton Hospital and forced the working stall', excepting tho Chinese nurses, to strike, threatening to kill any remaining belli ml. The workers appealed for police protection, which was refused. There are seventy patients likely to starve in tho hospital. The water and food supply has been cut ofl. while the electricity supply will he cut off later. INDIAN HOCKEY TEAM. DELHI, March 12. Tliivo further names are announced in connection with the Indian Army Hockey team nlswit to tour New Zealand, there being one European and two Indians. The other members include three British officers, five Indian non-commissioned officers and three Sepoys. TUT TO BE REBURIED. CAIRO. March 11. Tutankhamen "ill shortly he allowed to continue his disturbed slumbers as it is reported the Antiquities Department has decided to rebury the mummy in a plain iron casket within one of the tombs in the smaller chamber on which a notice "iil be affixed ; informing Archaeologists that it is only Tutankhamen's tomb, any information. in connection with which may he found at Cairo museum, thus preventing it being redisturbed centuries - hence.

WARRANT AGAINST A LORD. LONDON, March 11. Tho “Daily ALiil” states a warrant has been issued against Lord Torrington oil a charge of stealing a motor car, which he allegedly purchased on the hire system. CODIFICATION OF ARTICLES. LONDON. March 11.

The international codification of seamen’s articles will receive special consideration at the League’s Labour Conference at Geneva on <th June. The International Labour Office and a joint maritime commission have continuously studied the problem since the League discussed maritime affairs m 1920,