MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1926, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

WOMEN DEMONSTRATE AGAINST STRIKES. [Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received this day at 9.30 a.tu.) LONDON, April 18. The largest demonstration of women since the days of the suffragettes' was carried out under the auspices of the Women’s Guild of Empire when twenty thousand marched from the city to the Albert Hall to take part in an antistrike meeting. The gathering was composed of all classes of the community. A large proportion of the demonstrators reached the Metropolis by special trains and charabancs from Scotland, Wales and the Provinces. There was some . display of unsympathetic feeling, while a noisy scene greeted the arrival of “General'’ Mrs Flora Drummond and her chief supporters who were at the assembling point on horseback, a section ot the crowd lining the pavement hissing and deriding them. Among the horsewomen who acted as outriders or marshalls were one of the Duchess of York’s bridesmaids and several members of tjli.e AA’haddon Hunt. Some men attempted to'hold a mectisg at the head of the procession just before the procession started, but the police moved them on. The march was watched by dense crowds all along the route ami the marchers were subjected to cries and groans from men walking alongside distributing bills setting out tlie ease for the miners and engineers; also a demand for the establishment of the Soviets in England. The mounted police prevented a few ol their attempts to break the ranks. A slight scuffle occurred at Hyde Park corner between a knot of Communists and some British Faseisti in which the latter captured two flags. As the procession neared the Albert l-lall the women started Loud’s craze song Halencia. Outside the Hall tne rival feelings were expressed in forms of booing, cheering, singing of the National Antlicm, the Land of Hope and Glory, the patriotic songs being countered by the singing oi the Red Resolutions were passed at tlie Albert Hall denouncing the strikes ot South AA’ales, the miners ot Lotliians, the railway men and the Glasgow onAfterwards subscriptions for the cause, exceeding £6OO were presented to the new president ol the Guild, Lady Muriel Gore Browne. SUMMER TIME. LONDON. April 18. Summer time came into force at two tills morning. CHINESE SITUATION. PEKING, Api'd ISCabinet has dismissed the Nnt.onaist Commander, Lu Cluing Lm, all nests. The Premier, Olna Jeyao, has resigned, declaring himself guilty of negligence in connection with the. TfnSSt*. sent closed, except the A ung I m Me i Gate, where the officials are flanked 1 hand's of Housin' "'hr. await the annul of Chang Tso Lin. FOLLOAYING N.Z.’B LEAD. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.A SYDNEY, April 19. The annual report of the B.A.AA .E.A. directors stales that taking both the purchase prices for wool, sheepskins and the subsequent surplus aggregate of funds distributed and yot to be.distributed. amounts to £207 ,000.(XX). I i 1 lL.ii eanm Di LulS

has been suggested that some o - money should be used for settling mho-ants on the land on the lines ot New Zealand’s Flock House scheme. The suggestion will he put before a meeting of shareholders that £500,000 ho set aside for national purposes, hall of this sum to be used for training the sons and daughters of dead soldiers for Australian country life, and tho other half for establishing a- Commonwealth laboratory in Sydney for research work in connection with the pastoral industry.