BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1926, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

["Reuter Telegrams.] BET,GRADE, Sept. 5. The Dalmacija, built in Germany, the first Jugo-Slav cruiser, has arrived at Port Ti visit, amidst popular enthusiasm . ONE VIEWPOINT. PARIS, Sept. 5. Sir W. Joynson Hicks interviewed by the “Matin” said that the general strike in Britain was directed at the instigation of Moscow chiefly against right wing labour. The Soviet did not, care for the Trade Unions in the slightest. Their sole objective is a revolution. I am not sorry about the general strike bemuse it brought out patriotism which sport, and money making pleasure had regulated to the hack ground. MARTI AG LAW IN SPAIN. MADRID, Sept.. 5. Official. —Martial law is proclaimed throughout Spain. THE AVAR. COST. .. LONDON, Sept. 5.

General lan Hamilton bitterly commented on - the state of affairs in Great Britain in an address on Remembrance Day at a meeting of soldiers and exsoldiers at Glasgow Cenotaph. He said on such on occasion one was tempted to pander to the popular belief that the blood of so vast a multitude of war victims was not sacrificed vainly, but tho hour had at last struck when we must wrench thougnts from romance and sympathy and face the facts. There is no sign from Heaven or m mens hearts, that these rivers of blood had purchased any good for anyone, cept possibly the Americans. Ihe whole of. the capital of our forefathers had left us and found its way into the pockets of the nation which financed the bloodshed. We were in the position of bees, whose honey had been removed by a trick. They dimly comprehend that the best workers, farmers, fishermen, marines, engineers and shipbuilders are trembling on the brink of the dole. Only hotels, picture palaces,

and bookmakers seem to thrive from today’s miseries. Wisdom is arising, and a. vision will he given the people of Scotland. How have we the nerve to send delegates expensive journeys to preach peace in the midst of Switzerland when we are actually bleeding from self-inflicted wounds of the coal industry. We must realise an agreement for peace is no sign of weakness or sentimentalism, hut Christianity and commonsense.